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Droughts can lead to new wells

Mar 31, 2010

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2008’s meltdown reset the financial services industry. It caused chaos worldwide and for a short while, it brought the masters of the financial universe down the earth. More importantly for me, it was my catalyst, moving me from a pattern of waiting for the right time, to acting and creating various windows. Opportunities. With primary…

Once bitten, how shy?

Mar 23, 2010

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in Financing, Banking, Inclusion & SMBs, Venturing, Entrepreneurship, Innovating

I was having chatting with someone at a London Business School Entrepreneurial Leadership event recently and I was asked the question: was my last entrepreneurial experience so bad that I waited over 10 years to try it again? I had learned some expensive lessons: look with your eyes, not your wishes – just because you…

Tycoon in a Rose Garden

Mar 21, 2010

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in Venturing, Entrepreneurship, Innovating

Fresh out of business school, armed with an MBA, confidence and youth, I took a sabbatical from my consulting job to become a magnate. That was the plan, anyway. I had watched too many movies. Fuelled by delusions of grandeur, a gut feel substantiated by narrow research and the belief that I would do it…

Bank deposits can be stickier than you realise

Mar 16, 2010

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in Financing, Banking, Inclusion & SMBs

The last time I was in a bank branch was some time ago. I have queued to exchange travellers cheques in small African countries, done the Saturday morning trudge through the lines of my friendly neighbourhood bank in Bombay, and waited for a personal finance advisor (I only wanted to get a chequebook) at my…

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Droughts can lead to new wells

Once bitten, how shy?

Tycoon in a Rose Garden

Bank deposits can be stickier than you realise