Cooking to $125MM–not quite

Its been two seeks since I have been in Kushi Institute in Massachusetts.   Its been a terrific experience and I have felt more energy and overall better than I have for many, many months.    Its been a very interesting experience because I...

Investment driven project execution

Last week Gerry and I pow-wed over the execution of RedStores Ventures – and how we have to match the execution of business different when executing with funding in mind. Basically, and I think I am repeating from before – I  borrowed on ideas from another blog –...

Moving on two fronts

Its been a while since I have had a chance to update the blog.   Its been a busy last few weeks.  I have traveled to Singapore with Alex for health checks, a few days in Chiang Mai in Thailand, then back to Beijing for 2 days, and then off to US to...

Lining things up

Its been a busy week where I feel like I have managed to accomplish many things and move forward not a step on others. We are continuing to move on forming the Chinese company – its been 4 months now which is normal – but madly slow by western standards....

Funding and Execution Strategy

Take a look at this article – if you are looking at funding and how to value and structure your execution plan to make it funding friendly this is a great primer.   One of better articles I have seen in a long time.    This article is copied...

Valuations

Good part of this week was spend on coming up with valuations for Ventures.    Basically I had to take a 5 year window to get a full value.   I did a lot of research on actual draws and found a very useful site that discusses the risk profiles...