Eric Edelstein

I spent this morning with John Fearon who is in Cape Town for a few weeks from Oman, before he heads to London.
We had a great conversation about the global economy and both agree that the property market worldwide is set to come down hard, along with the stock market when taking a 2 [...]

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The Third Coffee Club Meetup in Cape Town had about 50 people shooting Internet ideas whilst sipping cocktails - what happened to the Coffee??
Thanks Henk - I picked up a few gems during your talk on your lessons learnt while building up Skyrove.
If you want to nominate yourself or someone else as the guest speaker [...]

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It’s 3.40 am & I was busy reading Malcolm Gladwell’s book blink about the power of thinking without thinking. On page 197 for a couple of pages, Gladwell discusses how you can recognise what a person is feeling by looking at the way their face changes.
I thought this concept was incredible, and ran to my [...]

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I’ve just finished reading The Majestic Way and think this is the perfect time to announce that my investment fund has taken a position in Scott Cundill’s company, Majestic.
My relationship with Scott goes back a long time to when we both worked for one of the large Internet Casino Groups. Scott was brilliant at viral [...]

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Oceans 13 kept me entertained the whole night. I would vote Oceans 13 one of the most entertaining movies I’ve EVER seen, but Ilana thought it was the best of the 3 Oceans Movies, but not incredible.
Perhaps it’s because I was more enthralled by the scams they were using that she was! I wonder if [...]

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Do you remember that scene in the movie Boiler Room where Seth gets the call from the newspaper salesman trying to get him to buy a subscription?
I got a request to join my Linkedin from a guy I didn’t know and he didn’t give any details of who he was or why he wanted to [...]

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There’s a group on facebook which discusses “business bloopers”.
This one by Paul is an ABSOLUTE CLASSIC…
How about this one which I actually had the pleasure of attending…. usual scenario …. 10 or so people round a board room table being given a presentation on a huge projector screen.
Now I don’t know about you but when [...]

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I’ve just got home from Toastmasters and I’m on a high after doing my first talk. Addrenallllin!!!!!
And although I want to write about Coffee Club 3 from last night, Toastmasters tonight, the eSquared sponsored LX Seth who hit Number 1 on channel O this week, and the launch of TrafficSynergy’s amazing new AdRands….
It has to [...]

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