Tag: IPO

Financial Markets
Chris MacIntosh

Hold My Beer – Let’s Watch SoftBank Venture Capital Plunge

Imagine this. You’re holding what has become the world’s biggest basket of profitless, often fraudulent (I’m looking at you, BABA), and insanely overvalued, illiquid securities. You’re one man at the helm of a ¥11.6tn empire with sole discretion as to how you operate. Sure, you’ve got shareholders. But the way

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Weekly Recap
Chris MacIntosh

DM Me If You’re A Dwarf

Isht You Wouldn’t Believe Last week was “Nazi pride week” in Mongolia. Pic taken on the steps of parliament. No kidding! When I first visited Ulaanbaatar, I was puzzled at the Nazi bars. Seemed sort of like a theme bar — kinda like you’d expect maybe a weird vampire themed

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Unicorn
Venture Capital and Private Equity
Chris MacIntosh

Rainbows in the World of Venture Capital

Little girls love to live in a make-believe world. I know this because I have one – a little girl that is. She understands that teddy bears don’t have feelings, that the moon isn’t made of cheese, and she grudgingly understands that unicorns don’t really exist, though a part of

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Putting out the Fire – Part II

We’re re-joining the conversation we began in Putting out the Fire – Part I with Sébastien Marneur today. ——– Scott: Okay, so Eurofeu Asia will essentially, over time, evolve into something similar to a company selling printers, or razor blades. Those companies sell the printer or the razor for break-even

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Putting out the Fire – Part I

First, we’d like to wish everyone a very happy and healthy 2013! This is of course our first post, on the first day of the new year. Mark, Chris and I are very thankful that you read our weekly missives and we promise to keep bringing you ever more exciting

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