Bvlletpoint is the home of David Elliott — CFO and angel investor. Essays and book reviews, and angel investment for early-stage founders.https://bvlletpoint.com/https://bvlletpoint.com/writing/sophisticated-investor-changes-a-blow-to-aussie-innovation/https://bvlletpoint.com/writing/sophisticated-investor-changes-a-blow-to-aussie-innovation/The use of a deeply flawed asset test which does not truly measure an investor's financial sophistication has created a flawed market dynamicTue, 06 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTAccelerationBig IdeasStrategyhttps://bvlletpoint.com/writing/homo-deus/https://bvlletpoint.com/writing/homo-deus/Homo Deus is the sequal to Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari and is a projection of the many divergent paths that humanity may take in the near future.Tue, 03 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMTFuturismPhilosophyhttps://bvlletpoint.com/writing/what-i-learned-losing-a-million-dollars/https://bvlletpoint.com/writing/what-i-learned-losing-a-million-dollars/What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars, charts the rise and fall of self-confessed lucky man Jim Paul (1943–2001) from his early life as a farm boy in Kentucky to the Governor of the Chicago…Mon, 12 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMTBig IdeasLearningPhilosophyhttps://bvlletpoint.com/writing/elon-musk/https://bvlletpoint.com/writing/elon-musk/Elon Musk, is a biography of the eponymous eccentric industrialist up to 2015. The book chronicles his early life, business success and challenges that he has surmounted to build Tesla and SpaceX…Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMTBig IdeasStrategyhttps://bvlletpoint.com/writing/dealing-with-china/https://bvlletpoint.com/writing/dealing-with-china/Dealing With China by former US Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. is a narrative retelling of Mr Paulson's history of working with China during his time with both Goldman Sachs and later as…Mon, 28 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMTStrategyhttps://bvlletpoint.com/writing/the-black-swan/https://bvlletpoint.com/writing/the-black-swan/The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NNT), is book two in his five volume series called Incerto, which also includes including Fooled by Randomness, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, and Skin…Wed, 23 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMTPhilosophyBig IdeasStrategyhttps://bvlletpoint.com/writing/100-startup/https://bvlletpoint.com/writing/100-startup/The $100 Startup is fundamentally a lifestyle business start up guide in a similar vein to The Four-hour Work Week by Tim Ferris.Sat, 19 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMTLifestylehttps://bvlletpoint.com/writing/principles/https://bvlletpoint.com/writing/principles/Ray Dalio grew Bridgewater Associates from a small two person operation in his bedroom one of the worlds premier fund managers. Rather than purely a narrative history, "Principles" focuses on the…Tue, 15 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMTLearningStrategyhttps://bvlletpoint.com/writing/turning-the-flywheel/https://bvlletpoint.com/writing/turning-the-flywheel/Turning the Flywheel is the accompaniment to the very good From Good To Great by Jim Collins.Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMTAccelerationStrategy