Category: Entrepreneurship

The Power of Distribution Manifested by Coca Cola

My kids are mowing lawns and washing cars in their spare time on weekends. The sort of jobs a 9 and 10-year old can get without doing too much damage. I think it’s a vastly better use of their time than sitting indoors, gaping at an Xbox, playing the latest

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Quiet Zone
Entrepreneurship
Chris MacIntosh

The Power of Shut Up!

Sitting with my lovely wife recently in a hospital waiting room (don’t ask) flicking through magazines, she showed me a picture of an elderly woman, a famous celebrity. Now, let me say that I care for celebrities and follow their movements in the same way I care for and follow the

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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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Why I Don’t Really Care About Your Product

I’ve just gotten off the phone with a gentleman who runs a radio show dedicated to entrepreneurs. He reached out to us as he thought it’d be interesting speaking with me, as an entrepreneur, and as an Angel investing in entrepreneurs. He wanted to know what we look for in

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Business lessons prostitution
Entrepreneurship
Chris MacIntosh

What This High-End Escort Can Teach You About Business

At a recent meeting with a VC in Singapore a strangely interesting article Sex is Sex. But Money Is Money. was shared with me. It was written by a 24-year-old ex-New York escort named Svetlana, and I recommend it to entrepreneurs, business owners and investors alike. What I found most fascinating

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Passion – It’s Not Just What Happens Between the Sheets

Most of the really big returns made by investors and entrepreneurs come from companies which seem to have one unmistakable element. We look at a mountain of deals and consequently the filtering process is very rapid. In fact over 90% of the deals that hit our respective desks are pre-filtered

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6 Ways to Improve Decision Making

It was one of my first private equity deals ever. I was introduced to a group of guys, all sporting adequate qualifications, a good story (BTW, almost everyone has a good story if only in their own minds) and they were already backed by a well-known Angel. The market opportunity

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