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The spirit of entrepreneurship lives on

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When entrepreneurship meets the capital markets, it creates interesting opportunities for investors. COMMENT by Tony Pereira (a chartered accountant and the CFO of a private venture fund) JUNE 30, 2011 - Four companies launched their IPO prospectuses that day. Bumi Armada's RM2.7 billion IPO (which involves Ananda Krishnan). PeterLabs (animal feed maker) is looking to raise RM4.5 million to repay existing bank loans. Catcha Media aiming to raise RM17 million on the ACE market. Hibiscus Petroleum looking to raise between RM150 million and RM300 million to invest in oil and gas assets. Catcha and Hibiscus represent two interesting propositions for investors. One was a shining star that almost went into oblivion. Applying entrepreneurship skills that first made them successful, they regrouped and have come back stronger. Hibiscus is the new kid on the block. It is using the capital market to acquire value . source: http://www.thesundaily.my/news/74505 Follow up new...

Creating Business Demand?

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Digital Content Delivery Channels

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You may have understand the concepts behind online campaign , another reason supporting the timing for running effective virtual world promotion would be the availability and popularity of the consumption devices. Below is a sample of how a Taiwan magazine is penetrating the digital medium. Since you already have the content in conventional publication, why not simply duplicate a copy into the digital medium and get more exposure (and revenue!) from it! It's about  consumption devices, digital contents, and online campaign ! http://www.caijing.com.cn/2011/ydxmt/

Concepts Behind Online Campaign

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贫富阶层的差距

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就是那张在网上广泛流传,引起了无数争议的照片。 我想,这张照片最大的现实意义不在于它揭示了社会巨大的贫富反差,更让人揪心的还在于-- 当这两个孩子长大之后,我们又该用什么来保证他们所代表的两个阶层的和睦相处? Income Gap - Poor and Rich Unfair Advantage #1: Financial Education

Sir John Templeton's 10 Maxims

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Invest for real returns The true objective for any long-term investor is maximum total real return after taxes. Keep an open mind Never adopt permanently any type of asset or any selection method. Try to stay flexible, open minded and skeptical. Long term top results are achieved only by changing from popular to unpopular the types of securities you favour and your methods of selection. Never follow the crowd If you buy the same securities as other people, you will have the same results as other people. It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something different from the majority. Buying when others are despondently selling and selling when others are greedily buying requires the greatest fortitude and pays the greatest reward. Everything changes Bear markets have always been temporary. And so have bull markets. Avoid the popular When any method for selecting stocks becomes popular, you will need to switch to unpopular methods. Learn from your mist...

The Next Crash?

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This is a chart (click to enlarge) of the S&P 100 (OEX), marked off in monthly candlesticks: On it, I've noted the parameters of the overarching bear trend that has subtly governed investor behavior for the past decade. I've also marked in the Stacked Sell Signals of 2000 and 2008 that warned of the dramatic cyclic downturns to come. Please note we are approaching the exact same technical and economic threshold that presaged both previous crashes. So the question at hand is not "will there be another downturn," but rather "when and how deep?" As I mentioned a moment ago, I have also laid in the Fed's two free money "QE" programs . As you can see, these efforts are pretty much the only thing that kept the markets from collapsing early in the cycle . But now they are part of the warp and woof of our little tapestry, and as such, are creating mini-cycles of their own. The Worst Choice Washington is now faced with a horrid choice: ...