It’s really easy to find information about raising money from angel investors or VCs, but many people neglect another important way to fund your startup: raising money from family and friends. There are pros and cons to raising money from family and friends, but for your first round (especially in your first company), I think [...]
Raising Money from Family and Friends
November 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Entrepreneurship
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Enron Documentary is Incredibly Interesting
June 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Books
I just watched The Smartest Guys in the Room, a documentary about the rise and fall of Enron. I have a special interest in Enron, as I margined my entire stock portfolio and shorted it in my 10th grade mock stock competition for a few days, but relented to my partners advice that it couldn’t [...]
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The World’s Largest Hedge Fund Is A Fraud
March 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Political Science & Economics
That is the title of a report compiled by Harry Markopolos in 2005 about Bernie Madoff’s fraudulent hedge fund. He lists 30 red flags and ways for the SEC to verify if these red flags were true. His report seems to have been almost completely ignored for almost four years. He states that pretty much [...]