Sunday, September 19, 2010

Hypomaniacs and Venture Capital - a match made in heaven

Profile of an entrepreneur in NYTimes. Choice quote: "Academics and hiring consultants say that many successful entrepreneurs have qualities and quirks that, if poured into their psyches in greater ratios, would qualify as full-on mental illness."

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Lewis does Greece

And the Michael Lewis world tour of financial disaster hotspots continues - he now finds himself in Greece, a country where government existed to hand out kickbacks to citizens and active non-enforcement of tax laws. In other words, the Nepal of Europe.