Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
I recently came across this blog in Portuguese, Advice from An Old Whore, and their ruminations on the age-old story of the Damsel in Distress and the Savior Prince. “Talvez a história do príncipe e da puta seja baseada em um romance de Nelson Rodrigues e não de Walt Disney.Talvez …
U.S. stocks plunged Thursday in their worst day since the 1987 Black Monday crash, ending the 11-year bull market. If you’ve been following my blog, you know I expected a downturn and an end to the bull market in the last quarter of 2017. When that didn’t happened, the dumbshits …
I came across today a sensible and cheap tool that dancers use to increase their flexibility: the door flexibility leg stretcher. Let’s see what this thing can do for us.
You might have heard of genetic (DNA) consumer testing and popular online merchants that offer it: Ancestry.com, 23andMe.com and others. A DNA report might offer some surprises folks never expected lost ancestry links. After reading this Wall Street Journal report from two weekends ago, I decided to get myself “tested”. …
We got the news today that Twitter, the loserclass app for the trolliratti is the target of shareholder shakeup from Elliott Management. “Since Dorsey returned as CEO in July 2015, the company’s shares have fallen 6.2%, while Facebook’s have gained more than 121% during that time. Bloomberg “Elliott has a …
Pre-seed is the first outside investment entrepreneurs receive into their business after bootstapping and F&F (family and friends). Chris Corbishley, an Investor at Forward Partners, a UK VC fund, has good words of advice on structuring and negotiating those early investments. (link). Read that along with their pre-seed Term Sheet . …
Today I invite you to read this post by Courtney Rubin, How a Hot $100 Million Home Design Startup Collapsed Overnight, The untold story of how Homepolish’s extremely Instagrammable house of cards came tumbling down. There are a lot a cautionary red flags for you VCs and investors, and as …
Last week The NY Times had an Oped about Near-Death Experiences: N.D.E.s, Are ‘Near-Death Experiences’ Real ? by John Martin Fischer (Feb 13th, 2020). “For instance, the religious figures may be different — a Christian would see Christian figures, a Buddhist would see Buddhist figures, Hindu gods and goddesses would …
The Show is going on Feb 13th through Feb. 17th, 2020. I invite you watch this video of a seat trail of the Cigarette Speedboat AMG Tirranna.
I am reading Wizard’s First Rule, a novel by Terry Goodkind. This is the first book in the epic fantasy series The Sword of Truth. I love the description of the Seeker that Zedd the Wizard gives Richard Cypher: “A Seeker is a person who answers to no one but …
