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26 August 2008
Ok so the weather is dreadful and the market’s no better, but what a week for our Olympians. Fourth in the medal table, some outstanding
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11 August 2008
It’s been a big week in the financial markets with a lot of ‘cleaning out the closet’ going on with Barclays and Royal Bank of
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4 August 2008
It’s a strange week when the world’s biggest auto manufacturer and the world’s biggest oil producer announce their trading results in the same week.
On
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30 July 2008
You know what? You can always tell when the media don’t have enough to write about, and over the last couple of weeks it has
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21 July 2008
This week has been ‘interesting’. I’m now 3 weeks into the CEO role that I have running smartfundit.com and it’s unbelievably challenging, I’ve learnt a
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14 July 2008
There was no escape this week, no hiding place, no refuge from the manmade contagion code named 'credit crunch'.
There was also no hiding place
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8 July 2008
I’m taking a minor detour this week from the ‘how to pitch to a VC’ series that I’ve been writing. I will be back to
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30 June 2008
A few years ago I invested in a small start up software business that developed and sold a BI tool for distribution companies. Business Objects
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23 June 2008
It’s been a really interesting week as for the first time I have become CEO of the business that I founded some 15 years ago. Business
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17 June 2008
You’ve heard it before: the key economic indicators are signalling an uncertain future. But is it crunch time or what’s the real story?
From the
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19 November 2007
The situation in Bangladesh is horrifying. Thousands dead, survivors living on daily calories of around 300 [even less than those that starved to death in
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2 September 2007
The late John Kenneth Galbraith would have enjoyed this summer. He was no expert on modern credit markets but his analysis of historic bubbles fits
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16 August 2007
What a week for the financial markets. Some will say the banks deserve it, others will realise there is a lot more at stake than
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4 August 2007
I’ve never been big on time management but over the last few weeks I’ve been spending some time [yes I know] working out why I
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21 July 2007
Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He is the author or
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21 June 2007
Ok I accept that blogs about finance aren’t that interesting, which is why that although I am a major shareholder in smartfundit.com I try wherever
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11 June 2007
Microfinance is a subject that I am very passionate about. It’s an important way for us to really help the world’s least developed countries [LDC]
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31 May 2007
Software 2007 from www.sandhill.com - it is quite an event and as my company Smartfundit.com was a sponsor, we were exhibiting our online marketplace and hosting
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