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Hi. I'm Mike Kane, a Philadelphia guy investing in early stage venture companies. I co-founded Pour Richards as a way to bring interesting people together to talk about ideas. This saved me the enormous trouble of having to be interesting myself.Pages
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Category Archives: Financial markets
Two Questions Entrepreneurs Almost Always Answer Wrong
Entrepreneurs almost always go wrong when answering basic questions on their valuation expectations and on competition. Continue reading
Posted in Financial markets, Venture Capital
Tagged advice for entrepreneurs, business valuation, competitive analysis, entrepreneur, pitching a VC, Venture Capital
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The Black Swan Has White Stripes
It is one thing to say we must be careful of claims about the future. It’s quite another to say that nothing can ever be known with certitude, for this last statement is a truth claim also, but one which conveniently exempts itself. Skepticism always has this problem when it crosses the line from a suggestion of caution to a theory of knowledge. There is also the personal inconsistency that runs throughout this work the way singing runs through an opera. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Financial markets, Observations, Uncategorized
Tagged Black Swan, Descartes, empiricism, Hume, Modern Portfolio theory, Taleb, theory of knowledge
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