Comments on: The Entrepreneurial Spirit http://www.wellingtonfund.com/blog/2009/02/09/the-entrepreneurial-spirit/ News, Views & Purviews Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:44:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: ken honeyman http://www.wellingtonfund.com/blog/2009/02/09/the-entrepreneurial-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-1243 ken honeyman Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:08:47 +0000 http://www.wellingtonfund.com/blog/2009/02/09/the-entrepreneurial-spirit/#comment-1243 I agree..there are many opportunities to exploit instead of hiding under a matress! I see an abundance of deals everyday and I think matching them to the appropriate group can serve to be a new paradigm in this economic cycle we're in. I see an online, web enabled marketplace populated by equal measures of brilliance and ignorance, let's face it, anyone can write a blog. Whether there's substance behind it remains to be seen. However, if we can utilize the web for transactional efficiencies, we can understand that the cyber world will be the new marketplace for deal flow, no matter if its a start up or a large offering. I agree..there are many opportunities to exploit instead of hiding under a matress! I see an abundance of deals everyday and I think matching them to the appropriate group can serve to be a new paradigm in this economic cycle we’re in. I see an online, web enabled marketplace populated by equal measures of brilliance and ignorance, let’s face it, anyone can write a blog. Whether there’s substance behind it remains to be seen. However, if we can utilize the web for transactional efficiencies, we can understand that the cyber world will be the new marketplace for deal flow, no matter if its a start up or a large offering.

]]> By: Ken Hoogs http://www.wellingtonfund.com/blog/2009/02/09/the-entrepreneurial-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-1242 Ken Hoogs Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:58:47 +0000 http://www.wellingtonfund.com/blog/2009/02/09/the-entrepreneurial-spirit/#comment-1242 Hear! Hear! The minute the election closed out, and the year thankfully ended, we were all preparing for the best, and hoping for the best. It takes dusting off those cash management skills and looking at things closer, but in our discussions with clients, friends, and even watching our lawyers behave differently, everyone can learn from this - and there is so much money on the sidelines, and so much planning being done to deploy it, the discounts are in and its time to place your bets. And better your plan for presentation. What an opportunity to have to renew fundamentals of investing: to now think of the long-term, and plan more soundly and stick to your core sector, and capture market share in industries that are shiny and were always - it was just too crowded for the great mindset of the inventors and capitalists to stand out among the traders of mortgages, media frenzy, bad big spenders in gov't, you name it. Hear! Hear!

The minute the election closed out, and the year thankfully ended, we were all preparing for the best, and hoping for the best. It takes dusting off those cash management skills and looking at things closer, but in our discussions with clients, friends, and even watching our lawyers behave differently, everyone can learn from this – and there is so much money on the sidelines, and so much planning being done to deploy it, the discounts are in and its time to place your bets. And better your plan for presentation.

What an opportunity to have to renew fundamentals of investing: to now think of the long-term, and plan more soundly and stick to your core sector, and capture market share in industries that are shiny and were always – it was just too crowded for the great mindset of the inventors and capitalists to stand out among the traders of mortgages, media frenzy, bad big spenders in gov’t, you name it.

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