Archive for December 5th, 2008
Gulf Trip: Day Five
5 December 2008Kuwait / Dubai
The first meeting was easy, in a way, despite being in a very new place and flying solo (Sunil had stayed behind in the UAE). The robed Kuwaiti I met with ran a US$125 venture capital fund whose sole focus is on Kuwait investment opportunities. Probably in his mid-30s.
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Fuzzy Civic math at the Globe and Mail
5 December 2008You can put out press releases. You can whisper in an ear. You can even blog about it (see prior post “‘Public Service’ — easier said than done part 2” September 15-08). But there appears to be no surefire way of getting the Globe and Mail’s Toronto City Hall Bureau Chief to [...]