Year: 2015

Question Everything
Other
Chris MacIntosh

It’s Q and A Time!

We’ve received quite a few emails from many of you over the past few weeks. I’ll answer some of the questions you’ve had and touch upon your comments here as I think they might be relevant for the others to read about. Let’s just dive right into it, shall we? Question: Dear

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Uber
Global Trends
Chris MacIntosh

In Support of Ubers of the World

Recently I read how Uber is blitzing London’s black cabbies. God, it couldn’t have come sooner! I spent my 20s living in London and whenever I landed up taking a black cab in London it was usually after I’d had too many drinks and my cognitive powers had gone kaput.

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Mongolia
Podcast
Chris MacIntosh

Mongolia – Finding Its Feet Again

Frontier markets and volatility go together like bacon and eggs. Bursting with energy, chaotic and often smelly they lurch about like a young calf finding its legs. Mongolia could quite aptly be seen to be such a calf. Sometimes the calf lurches about and remains standing. Sometimes it falls over.

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Roller Coaster
Financial Markets
Chris MacIntosh

You Cannot Go Unprepared into This

A recent conversation I had with an exasperated parent of a teenager showed me how horribly things can turn out if parents have no discipline when raising kids. If parents have been spoiling poor little “Johnny Snotbrat” for most of his life and let him get away with murder at some point

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Election
Other
Chris MacIntosh

Political Accountability from a Perspective of a Venture Capitalist

There is a great deal of chatter about the recently concluded British elections in which a posh sounding man with eyes suspiciously close together just trumped another man who obviously economically illiterate is missing a chin. During this particular circus show it’s not a leader people were picking but rather

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Chinese Food
Venture Capital and Private Equity
Chris MacIntosh

Industry Standard be Damned!

Some 12 years ago, on my first trip to China, I found myself pleasantly surprised by almost everything I saw. The high quality and low cost of accommodation, the fantastic roads, and overall infrastructure. I found a friendly people with a truly surprising level of wealth. It was a country

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Mountain Peak
Financial Markets
Chris MacIntosh

This One Thing Has Killed Before and It’s About to Kill Again

While on a weekend hike with my family a few weeks ago I bumped into a very experienced alpine climber and we started chatting. This guy had climbed some of the most treacherous alpine mountains that the planet can chuck at you. I’ve never had the inclination to climb like this

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Medellin Metro
Global Trends
Chris MacIntosh

Sam Zell May Be Onto Something Here

Many, many years ago on a flight from New York to Vancouver I recall sitting next to a C-level executive from a pharmaceutical company which conducted business “globally,” as he put it. “Global” being, as it turned out, the US and Canada. I had to humbly submit to his “international

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