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Doing the things that you don't like to do

“All I ever wanted was the freedom to make my own mistakes.” - Mance Rayder Some years back when we got into the advisory business as a...

Motivations.

“We’re more threatened by people who want the same things as us than by those who don’t. Ask yourself, honestly: whom are you more...

The use of a world map

Ownership is usually a bust unless your company is being fast-tracked to sell for big bucks.

Complicated storytelling

This is true for many investment banks. And people pay for complexity. But it's an odd world: Founders chasing publicity on social media,...

I am just a brick-layer.

“Rome wasn’t built in a day but they were laying bricks every hour.” "The problem is that it can be really easy to overestimate the...

We are business owners.

Someone asked me about paychecks recently. "Paycheck? What paycheck? We are business owners, we don't draw paychecks." Once you've owned...

Can't put lipstick on a pig

The Starbucks at Capital Towers brings back memories of how I was helping a company look for investors some years back. I was sitting...

What makes a successful entrepreneur?

The end game between employee and entrepreneur got me thinking- How does one define success in entrepreneurship?

Don't eat your own bullshit

Thoughtful weekend read and a timely reminder for reflecting on all bad decisions made in the last four years.

First a businessman, then an investor

Good investors are first and formost by nature: business people. They should be entrepreneurs, owners of businesses or have been placed...

Money is a replaceable resource.

Money is the one thing that you can always replace any time or at some point of time in the future - money is just money.

When starting a business...

More than three years since I started out, I discovered a new-found respect for the many areas of businesses which are presumably...

Thoughts on interest alignment

Over the weekend, I was deliberating about stakeholder contribution and their business involvement. We liked some people because they...

The stupidest 'annual meeting' ever held

Looking back, this "30-year" plan has got to be the most ridiculous document ever drafted.

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