Year: 2015

What Parenting Has in Common with Raising Capital

Fathers and mothers everywhere recall with a certain fondness the years BC. For the average pre-family adult, life was starkly different before children (BC). Responsibilities ended at the individual level and oh, the freedom. Money was yours, time was yours, and you could do with it all as you damn

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12 Reasons Why Here and not There

New Zealanders are like the residue of Weet-Bix left in a cereal bowl for a couple of weeks: tough! Let me give you an example. When James Grant was attacked by a shark while spearfishing his response was pretty typical of the Kiwis I know here: “Bugger, now I have to

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Risk – Part I: Why We Owe It to Drugs

“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change…” Leo Buscaglia nailed it with the quote above. Ask any friends, colleagues or contacts you know who’ve enjoyed success about risk.

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A Tale of Two Airlines

On 28th December, 2014 Air Asia flight QZ8501 from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore never made it to its destination. The plane crashed into the the sea killing all 162 people on board. In May last year Malaysia Airlines flight 370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, carrying 239 people disappeared and

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