Google for Entrepreneurs Week Presentation slide deck For two consecutive Saturdays, I was invited by a group of close friends to speak about Startup Failure. Last Saturday the audience was primarily students and young professionals at IBA new auditorium. This Saturday, it was a mixed group of technology and start up professionals at the Marriot at the [...]
Saw Jobs, the movie this evening. Not sure if the review debate has really gotten out of hand. Here is the low down. Yes it is not perfect and it always possible to do a better job. Steve lived a complex life, it is difficult to do justice to it i...
Why did Yahoo buy Tumbler or Facebook buy Instagram or Google buy YouTube? For Jeff or any other technology company married to the conversion game it comes down to content and traffic. While we may disagree with the opinions and orientations of the Post, the Post still has an incredible following. If you look at the [...]
Getting Published. My road to a publishing contract. The short answer is that I was incredibly lucky. I wrote and shared something on Linkedin last November that caught the eye of an editor who wrote back. Two calls, eight emails and six months later I...
Help us find the right name for the new book on risk management Here is the background story. I have just sent in my manuscript for a text book on risk management to Palgrave Macmillan. Macmillan is likely to publish in the book by December 2013. The book is being positioned as a desk reference for practitioners [...]
Estimating Exposure and Impact – Emirates Airline Emirates airline is a leading Middle Eastern airline known for its commitment to redefining business travel and operating the largest business and first class transit lounges in the world at Dubai Airport. Emirates flies 40 million passengers a year and its last reported financial year (2012-2013) grossed just [...]
I owe all of you an apology. You must be wondering where in the world have we disappeared to. It’s one thing for me to wander off to Nairobi and not come back, it is a different story when the entire team pulls a disappearing act worthy of X files. Here is the story behind our absence [...]
Last week at a client conference on risk systems in Nairobi, the client recommended that I take half a day off in the morning and try out the open air safari. The safari guide would come pick me up from my hotel at 7 am, drive me down to the Nairobi National Park and drop [...]
Bond Risk: Calculating Value at Risk (VaR) for Bonds. Here are two common challenges that come up when we apply risk management concepts to individual bonds and bond portfolios: a) How do you measure risk of a newly issued bond that has no history of trading prices b) How do you integrate the risk of a bond issued [...]
About Finance Training Course.com – our story Sometimes when you have been working on an idea for a decade and a half it is easy to assume that everyone loves it as much as you do. Or is aware of the back story. This morning two prospective customers asked me about who we really are and why [...]