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 you’ve structured the business, the… Read More
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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 bar or a girly bar…. Read More
5 Reasons Why Not to Raise Capital for Your Startup
I recently had dinner with co-founders of a startup who’d just raised quite a bit of money for their company, a deal which incidentally I’d passed on. The meal was fantastic: fresh salmon from the bay, washed down with a particularly good New Zealand pinot noir, while watching the sun go down over the water…. Read More
Are You Investing Like the Terminator? You Should Be!
When robots eventually take over this planet, killing us all (save a small group singled out to be used as slaves, and thrown into a big brother style environment with live streamed cage fights to the death), or possibly used in lab tests, you can bet that they won’t feel bad about it. Curious perhaps as… Read More
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 a company that is pitching… Read More
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 deals coming from our colleagues… Read More
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