Archives for October, 2011

TEDx Talks: Three videos to move and inspire you…

Its TEDx day today. Promised myself that I would do this someday and I guess today was it… Three of my favorite TEDx chats after browsing through the TEDx stacks.

Its just a disease

Can we solve large problems

A picture is worth?

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Selling Treasury Derivative products: Estimating client exposure to crude oil price volatility

Selling Treasury & Derivative Products: The Petrochemical Case Study: Estimating client exposure to crude oil price volatility

This is the transcript from the video recording for session three of selling treasury products where we use the case study of an oil refinery to show how to translate impact of crude oil price volatility into P&L and margin impact. This impact forms the basis for exposure estimation used to suggest…

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P@SHA Social Innovation Fund: Can you change the world with US$10,000

When Jehan first mentioned the idea of pitching for funding this time last year so that we could give away a small amount of funding to the bright and creative talent of Pakistan (stay hungry, stay foolish ala Steve Jobs) we never thought we would come so far.

This weekend as we went back and forth between the judges picking our individual top fives and then the collective top four…

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Business Plan competitions – The reasons why you didn't win

Business Plan Competitions – The reasons why you didn’t win

This weekend at an out of town engagement an old friend and mentee asked me a simple question. Why do you decline or reject participants to the various business plan competitions you judge here, in the Middle East as well as in the Asia Pacific region.

Today when I finally finished judging the P@SHA Social Innovation Fund shortlisted entries my thoughts…

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Selling derivative products to treasury customers: The Treasury Marketing Unit Training series

The Selling Derivative Products to Treasury Customers online video course is now live and available for purchase.

Selling Derivative products training course introduction

The 90 minute short video course is part of our Selling Treasury product series and has been made available in shortened form for customers who are looking for a quick crash course in derivative products. The course include two 40 minute sessions covering the following three themes:

a)…

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Eat People and Grumby: Andy Kessler hits it out of the Park – Twice

Eat people and Grumby. Two books, one author, ten days. Loads of fun..

First Eat People. I came across Andy Kessler when I picked up a copy of Running money at some airport in another life and couldn’t put it down. In Eat People Andy does for technology what he did for investment management in Running Money. His ten simple rules (actually eleven) really lay out the…

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Quote of the week: The Fear Index: Robert Harris

Read The Fear Index (Robert Harris), this week. Brilliant and ironic quote that really put the law of un-intended consequences out there..

“In 1993 the US Congress voted to abandon the Super Collider saving US taxpayers 10 billion US$. It pretty much wiped out the career plans of an entire generation of American physicists. Most physicists unfortunately had to go off and become Quants on…

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From Startups and Pitching to Selling Treasury Products

Welcome to the weekend and three spanking new courses live at Finance Training Course.com

In the Pitching Case Studies course (55 minutes) we review common challenges faced by startup and venture teams in making an impression, including:

Making a pitch real Breaking the “They can’t do it mindset” Presenting and pitching financial models Visualizing customer pain and choice Building credibility with your audience Listening to the voice of the customer

The Pitching your business…

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