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Reading Time: 2 minutes Andy Kessler’s Running Money, Hedge Fund Honchos, Monster Markets And My Hunt For The Big Score is a well written set of memoirs from a technology fund manager. Together with his partner-in-crime Fred Kittler, Kessler managed to survive the highs and lows of the technology industry in the late 1990’s, he tells the story in … Read moreOprah Time: Running Money by Andy Kessler
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the 1970’s through to the present day the English Disease referred to the reputation of a small minority of football supporters from England with a penchant for violent behaviour, the likes of which has not been seen in the US since the Rodney King riots.Within the technology sector there is another English Disease, this … Read moreThe English Disease
Reading Time: 2 minutes RTE programme Primetime carried a great introduction to a scandal in the UK and Ireland that mirrors the Savings and Loans scandal that gripped the US in the 1980’s. During the 1980’s, Savings and Loans companies (kind of equivalent to building societies in the UK and Ireland) bought complex financial products that they did not … Read moreLiars Poker Personal Edition
Reading Time: < 1 minute I went to my friend Jo’s wedding the other month and later wrote on this blog about The Gift Registry: a wedding present service that seemed like a good idea at the time. The high concept was that the site kept the wedding list online which could be compiled from items stocked by a number … Read moreSucker Punch From a Dot.Bomb
Reading Time: < 1 minute Andy Kessler has been a banker, analyst and fund manager. Through all this experience has a growth investor, that is someone who invests in what might be rather than a value investor. A value investor is someone who invests in companies that work hard to husband what they have already and try not to rock … Read moreGrowth Crusader