Month: December 2015

Busy Street
Podcast
Chris MacIntosh

Safety First: Disrupting the Security Industry

Paris. Beirut. Egypt. San Bernardino. These are just a few of the terrorist attacks that happened over the past few weeks. Terrorism is making headlines again while ISIL makes for a great conversation starter. The threat today seems more real than ever, despite more than $1.7 trillion spent on fighting terrorism over the

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Money Burning
Global Trends
Chris MacIntosh

Is This How the Dollar Gets Replaced?

I’m sitting here at my desk, laptop open, 7 browser tabs open, a half dozen documents open, emails popping in every few minutes, Skype messages coming in, and bunch of PDF reports open for review. A smartphone collects calls and texts coming in, and next to this is a Kindle

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blockchain
Global Trends
Chris MacIntosh

You Can’t Seriously Expect Your Banker to Tell You About This

Years ago I had the misfortune of sitting adjacent a colleague who was a pretentious moron. We were both young and of no real importance at the investment bank which had hired us. This particular guy became so entranced with the absurd things that rich people with more money than

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One Dollar
Venture Capital and Private Equity
Chris MacIntosh

Do You Really Want to Raise Money From a Venture Capitalist?

When I was much younger everyone, myself included, wanted to be a hedge fund manager. And who could blame us. After seeing the kind of houses these folks lived in, any sensible bloke with aspirations of ditching the 30-year old Fiat for a Porsche wanted a hedge fund of their

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