The Next, And Overlooked, VC Opportunity: The Middle East
April 20th, 2013
Via the Harvard Business Review, an interesting look at venture capital in the Middle East: Venture capital is ignoring the Middle East for all the wrong reasons. Ultimately, playing it safe will cause them to yield new opportunities. I’ve interviewed over 150 impressive, young entrepreneurs and engineers throughout the Arab world. Many have visited the […]
Read more »South Sudan
April 15th, 2013
Via Outside Magazine, an interesting profile of the new country of South Sudan, a nation blessed with oil, water, and a safari bonanza but without roads, laws, or infrastructure: A Cattleman from the Mundari tribe rubs hash on his face to protect himself from insects in a cattle camp on the road thirty-eight kilometers […]
Read more »Mozambique’s Promising Future
April 9th, 2013
Via How We Made It In Africa, a detailed look at Mozambique: After almost two decades of civil war, Mozambique is rapidly emerging as one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. Economic growth is expected to average around 8% over the next few years, inflation is slowing from 8% in 2012 to an estimated […]
Read more »Laos High-Speed Rail: China’s Ticket To Ride To Southeast Asia And Beyond
April 9th, 2013
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on a high-speed rail project between Laos and China: It looks like Laos, China’s tiny landlocked southern neighbour, is about to find out whether sharing a border with China is a good thing. Laos has two things China needs – natural resources such as potash and hydropower, and […]
Read more »Frontier Entrepreneurship: Doing Business In The Hardest Spots On Earth
April 4th, 2013
Courtesy of Inc., an interesting article (first in a series) on frontier entrepreneurship by Jake Cusack and Matthew Tilleard, a pair of investment advisors who work with growth companies in Afghanistan, South Sudan, Iraq, Haiti, and other countries devastated by war and poverty: You can learn a lot about a country on the way over, […]
Read more »The Final Frontier: Sub Saharan Africa
March 26th, 2013
Via Foreign Policy, an interesting article on Sub Saharan Africa: In popular culture, sub-Saharan Africa may still conjure images of conflict and poverty, yet investors from Wall Street to Main Street are taking a decidedly rosier view. Africa’s surging growth is now well known — the region is home to six of the 10 fastest-growing […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.