Category: Angel/Venture Investing

9 Reasons We Passed on This Deal

Ideas…like grains of sand on the beach. I’ve mentioned this before in my post “8 Reasons Not to Sign an NDA” and it bears repeating. Unless you have a proprietary product involving intellectual property, a scientific process or something which is entirely unique and therefore valuable, you are immediately devaluing

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Why I love PRISM

If you drink poisoned water thinking it’s safe you’re a victim. If you drink poisoned water knowing it’s poisoned you’re an idiot. In that context, I have been a complete idiot. I’ve stored unencrypted financial information on companies which I’ve been researching on Dropbox I’ve used Gmail I’ve used Skype

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Funding Your Start-up

Further to my last post, I wanted to delve into the options available to entrepreneurs for funding their start-up. The topic may seem obvious – the founders have an idea and need capital – easy enough. OK, let’s hurry up already, get out there, raise some dosh and get this

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Investing in White Gold!

China circa 2008… six babies die from severe kidney damage while another 300,000 suffer kidney stones. As it turns out, melamine isn’t meant to be in infant milk formula! The result was a few Chinese businessmen taken out back and shot, literally… and a nation that, for good reason, doesn’t

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Beware These Unseen “Friction” Costs!!

Brokers, placement agents, middle men, promoters, consultants, financial intermediaries…call them whatever you wish. They have existed in the financial space since man invented a way to exchange one thing of value for another. Some do a fine job, provide a valuable service and deserve every penny they earn. In my

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Agricultural Stream and What Is Gold Streaming?

In a bull market one of the most profitable businesses to be in is that of financing. This is largely due to the leverage available, not only financial leverage, but equally important are the leverage of skills and technology. Financial services, banking, insurance, brokerage, investment and merchant banking all fit

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Multiplying Your Money Like “THEY” Do!

Mark talked some time ago about taking companies public and detailed some of the bottom feeders that operate in this space. If you haven’t read the post it may both enlighten, and scare you. It’s why we always say – management, management, management… Earlier this week when discussing a company’s

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