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Book Review: “Lost and Founder” by Rand Fishkin

Beyond M&A

The Venture Capital (VC) Funding Dilemma: Fishkin delves into the allure and pitfalls of VC funding, outlining the pressure it exerts on companies to prioritize rapid growth over long-term sustainability and profitability. It’s an excellent book that helped us with our SaaS product, and inspired me to write daily.

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Sensex at record high: Time to rebalance your portfolios, book profits?

Business Standard - FInance

Equity Mutual Fund investing is strictly meant for your long-term goals, so it makes little sense to try and time your exits and entries or to repeatedly "book profits" and sit on the sidelines.

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Non-banking lender SMFG India Credit eyes Rs 75,000 cr loan book by FY26

Business Standard - FInance

Mid-sized non-banking lender SMFG India Credit, formerly Fullerton India Credit, is looking at doubling the loan book over the next two-three years from the present Rs 36,000 crore. Japanese financial powerhouse SMFG bought a controlling 74.9 We are looking at new products as we haven't yet

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An old story in modern times. Duncan Mavin's pretty darn good book on Greensill

Bronte Capital

Pyramid of Lies - Duncan Mavin's great book on the Greensill Capital debacle - tells us - as if we need to be told - that the illusion of omniscient bankers is just an illusion - and that dross masquerading as financial innovation continues well after the financial crisis. I recommend Duncan's book. Really - buy it.

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Point72's Steve Cohen is stepping back from trading his own book

CNBC: Investing

The prominent hedge fund investor, who also owns the New York Mets, will continue his role as the co-chief investment officer at Point72.

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Go1 snaps up speed reading app Blinkist to expand in enterprise learning

TechCrunch: M&A

First, it is snapping up Blinkist , a startup out of Berlin that had built a platform to discover and read abbreviated versions of longer non-fiction books — “Blinks” that typically take no more than 15 minutes to read or listen to. Blinkist’s last valuation was $160 million in 2018 , when it raised $18.8

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Distressed Debt Hedge Funds: How to Become a Vulture Capitalist

Mergers and Inquisitions

Ask anyone interested in distressed debt hedge funds for “the pitch,” and they’ll probably mention one of the following: “It’s like long/short equity or credit , but more interesting!” Distressed debt investing offers advantages over other hedge fund strategies , but the marketing often oversells the benefits.

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