Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Five Greatest Hedge Fund Farewells - Deal Journal - WSJ

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

10 Things Your Real Estate Broker Won't Say

Michael Lewis on A.I.G.

Michael Lewis on A.I.G. | vanityfair.com
The Man Who Crashed the World


Monday, June 01, 2009

Things You Didn’t Know About Steve Jobs

11 Things You Didn’t Know About Steve Jobs
11 Things You Didn’t Know About Steve Jobs

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Hedge fund managers name long, short bets

Monday, May 25, 2009

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso Quotes
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Pablo Picasso

About $1.4 trillion in real estate debt is set to mature over the next four years, with some $204 billion coming due this year alone

NO NEW LEASE ON TRILLIONS IN DEBT - New York Post
About $1.4 trillion in real estate debt is set to mature over the next four years, with some $204 billion coming due this year alone

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Invisible Oil Traders

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Canary Wharf Real Estate Rental Price 1991 level

Rents Crashing in London to 1991 Prices Le Gavroche Shows Gone - Bloomberg.com
Rents Crashing in London to 1991 Prices Le Gavroche Shows Gone

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Thrifty reads Warren Buffets License plate

How I Spent A Million Bucks And Ended Up With These Two Chairs. — Mixergy.com
How I Spent A Million Bucks And Ended Up With These Two Chairs

Monday, May 11, 2009

Rahman and Pussycat Dolls - Jai Ho

YouTube - The Pussycat Dolls - Jai Ho (You Are My Destiny)
The Pussycat Dolls - Jai Ho (You Are My Destiny)

Friday, May 08, 2009

India Entrepenurs - One of the best conference I attended

Perseverance and a 'Thick Skin': India's Next Wave of Entrepreneurs - India Knowledge@Wharton
Perseverance and a 'Thick Skin': India's Next Wave of Entrepreneurs

India calling- Brain Circulation

The World - India Calling - NYTimes.com
India Callin. Thanks to Rahul for this link

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Big Real Estate Listings

Must read before you travel

10 Things to Be Clear About Before You Start a Company - Tech

10 Things to Be Clear About Before You Start a Company - ReadWriteStart
10 Things to Be Clear About Before You Start a Company

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Start a Company (Private Limited) in India

Procedure involved to Start a Company (Private Limited) in India « Wings of Freedom - Xpress
Procedure involved to Start a Company (Private Limited) in India

Britney Spears problem

The Britney Spears Problem » American Scientist
The Britney Spears Problem

Tracking who's hot and who's not presents an algorithmic challenge.

Sunday, May 03, 2009

Lehman and its real estate Saga

How Lehman Got Its Real Estate Fix - NYTimes.com
How Lehman Brothers Got Its Real Estate FiX

Friday, May 01, 2009

Nice story from wall street trader

Thursday, April 09, 2009

How to become Bill Gates

How to Become Bill Gates
How to Become Bill Gates.

Saturday, April 04, 2009

Sub prime millionaire

Monday, March 16, 2009

Billionaires got richer in 2008

The Wealth Report - WSJ
These Billionaires Actually Got Richer in 2008.

* Mayor Mike. Who says government is bad for wealth? Financial-data king and New York City Mayor Michael Blomberg added $4.5 billion to his fortune to rack up a net worth of $16 billion. Forbes doesn’t really give a reason, saying only that it is due to a “re-evaulation” of his company after he bought out Merrill’s stake in news and information provider Bloomberg LP.

* John Paulson. The hedge funder’s Advantage Fund rose 38%, doubling his fortune to $6 billion.

* Jim Simons. The hedge funder’s Medallion Fund surged 80% last year, using “complex algorithms,” giving Mr. Simons a $2.5 billion boost to $8 billion.

* Tadashi Yanai. Japan’s richest guy and his family gained $2.6 billion from their discount clothing business, Fast Retailing.

* George Soros. The king of gloom and doom added $2 billion to his war chest and now has a net worth of $11 billion, largely with bearish bets at his hedge fund.

* John Arnold. The fresh-faced head of Centaurus Energy is said to be up 80% this year, kicking his net up $1.2 billion to $2.7 billion. He now is moving into hard assets like power plants and storage facilities.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Monday, March 02, 2009

A VC

I found this fascinating quote today:



3) Berkshire's two most important businesses are insurance and utilities, sectors that "produce earnings that are not correlated to those of the general economy."A VC, Mar 2009 You should read the whole article.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

The Rules of an Entrepreneur

Thursday, February 05, 2009

Entrepreneur resources

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

How to win discussions - ?

Just a small correction. No one wins in an argument. every one loses. But the tips are great for discussion sake.

lbrandy.com » Blog Archive » How to “Win” Arguments and Infuriate Opponents (with examples!)
How to “Win” Arguments and Infuriate Opponents (with examples!)

Friday, January 30, 2009

Schwarzman about Private Equity

Gardener as a referral source.

You Never Know Whom They Know - Referral Networking - Entrepreneur.com
gardener can be a referral source to the rich?

The most valuable business lessons

What You Can Learn From... - Entrepreneur.com
The most valuable business lessons

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Paulson the man who made too much - I call him man with iron balls

John Paulson Profits in Downturn - Executive Articles - Portfolio.com
Following high school in Brooklyn, Paulson moved on to New York University, which in the 1970s offered a popular seminar taught by John Whitehead, then a senior partner at Goldman Sachs. Paulson listened, fascinated, as Robert Rubin, later secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton and now an unofficial adviser to Barack Obama—talked about the mysterious and new (to Paulson, anyway) world of risk arbitrage. At the time, the scholarly, soft-spoken Rubin was viewed, at least by Paulson’s professor, as the smartest partner at Goldman Sachs; he was certainly the richest. Paulson graduated first in the class of 1978, with visions of arbitrage in his future.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

25 Greatest Self-Made Men in History | The Art of Manliness

25 Greatest Self-Made Men in History | The Art of Manliness
25 of the Greatest Self-Made Men in American History

Friday, January 09, 2009

Found it interesting - Indian in Wall Street

Running With The Bulls
Running With The Bulls

How to hide 50 billion dollars ? Interesting any takers

Where Has Bernie Madoff Buried His Loot? - TIME
Instead, a white-collar fraudster like Madoff could create multiple phony investment-advisory businesses in foreign countries, similar to legitimate businesses he's actually working with. Says Reich: "All he has to do is create fake invoices over the years and pay in to those fake companies, then create new phony businesses in other countries, have the monies transferred to them, and then close down the original fake businesses. It's how the mob does it; the money trail is wiped clean.

Thursday, January 08, 2009

Who is a Banker?

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. -Mark Twain : business
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. -Mark Twain