Future Financial Centers

Thankfully, the nightmare that was senior thesis has finally come to an end. Strangely enough, it was a rather enjoyable experience, benefiting from the fact that my question not only was but still is genuinely interesting. Look forward to hearing the results in an upcoming post; I'm too sick of everything thesis-related to talk more about it now.

In the meantime, here's an article from Bloomberg that a friend sent to me regarding London's future as a financial center. Maybe I won't be staying in the City as long as I'm planning to after all...

Guy Kawasaki on Becoming a Venture Capitalist

Venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki presents his opinion on the best way to learn the lessons necessary to become an entrepreneur or a venture capitalist.



Personally, I just love his discussion of "Morgan Stanley Disease." To quote: "Now you're giving all these young entrepreneurs advice based on your zero years of having run a company....I would never start my career as a venture capitalist or investment banker because it will fundamentally corrupt you, it will just eat your brain out."

Silence is Golden

My apologies for not updating the blog in a week or two. We're in the home stretch of thesis season here at Claremont McKenna and I've been toiling away for the past several weeks, conducting experiments and revising drafts of my paper on the role of emotion and mood in financial risk taking.

I'll still try to add a couple of things per week, but with thesis due on April 27th, my focus is elsewhere right now. Stay tuned April 28th for the rapid return to form. After all, once thesis is turned in, what else am I going to do between now and graduation?

In the meantime, compare these two takes on the current state of the economy. The first comes from Dr. Doom himself, Nouriel Roubini, who, true to form, tears down all hope of a recovery. The second comes from Investor's Business Daily, who argue that "Recovery's Coming."

Now, sit back, read up, and ponder what the world will be like in a future without John Madden's bizarre doodles on slow-mo replays, without his random utterances, and without his incredible knack for stating the obvious.

The Foundation for Entrepreneurship

For many years, the Kauffman Foundation has sought to understand the impact of entrepreneurship on communities and to foster the entrepreneurial spirit amongst young and old alike.

The president of the Foundation, Carl Schramm, sat down with The Wall Street Journal and discussed how, as in past recessions, entrepreneurship will be the driving force to pull our economy out of this recession.

Damn It Feels Good to Be a Banker

For all the future I-bankers out there. Most of you have probably seen this, but if not, you should know that it's already a classic.

From the Leveraged Sellout:

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