One of my investments is likely to fail.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nI have not yet decided whether I will be foolhardy enough to make predictions on the global economy and the US election. Stay tuned \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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While 2006 was a year of transition with the break after Zingy and the creation of OLX, 2007 was a year of consolidation. I put my disagreement with the acquirer … Continue reading "”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-musings","category-year-in-review"],"acf":[],"contentUpdated":"Looking back at 2007, looking forward to 2008. Categories - Personal Musings, Year in Review. Date-Posted - 2007-12-31T15:52:22 . While 2006 was a year of transition with the break after Zingy and the creation of OLX, 2007 was a year of consolidation. I put my disagreement with the acquirer of Zingy behind me. I made two new Internet investments. OLX continued to grow slowly but surely \u2013 we now have over 80 employees and are present in 40 countries in 12 languages.\n I continued to travel far and wide for OLX and hope that there will be less business travel in 2008. On the personal side, my life has been more boring, though I did manage to go heli-skiing in British Columbia, kite boarding in Cabarete (Dominican Republic) and hiking, biking and rafting in Costa Rica. I am also continuing to (very slowly) work on my tennis game, open mindedness, patience and humility.\n The best books I read in 2007:\n The Black Swan by Massim Nicholas Taleb\n The Undercover Economist by Tim Hartford\n My best blog posts in 2007 were:\n Passion and love at the end of the age of innocence\n \u201cLoving\u201d versus \u201cBeing in Love\u201d\n Happiness and the dangers of belief in the written word \ud83d\ude42\n The Theory of Social Obligation\n The nature of entrepreneurship: randomness, trial and error, and how intelligence can get in the way\n Ethics, spirituality and religion: a debate on torture\n Fear and uncertainty in the time of prosperity\n Capitalism and Democracy\n Macro Perspectives on Global Liquidity: How Chinese Farmers and Oil Sheiks are Subsidizing American Consumption and its Implications\n A Different Perspective on the Global Economy\n Facebook: the next Google?\n I predict 2008 will be a year of slow growth:\n It will continue to be too early to tell whether OLX will be a success or not \u2013 given the non viral nature of online classifieds, this project is going to take years.\n Two of my Internet investments will enter the Alexa top 50 \u2013 one is Badongo.com, the other I will talk about when the investment officially closes in January 2008.\n One of my investments is likely to fail.\n I have not yet decided whether I will be foolhardy enough to make predictions on the global economy and the US election. Stay tuned \ud83d\ude42\n Happy New Year!\n ","Category":["Personal Musings","Year in Review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17373,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/17373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}