According to French custom, I still have a few days until January 31st to wish everyone a great and prosperous New Year 2023! And as is customary, also share a review of what happened in 2022! For me, it was a transition year full of joy and new discoveries!

During COVID-19 lockdown, like most of you, I have been spending most of my time behind my screens (I have 3). I actually have been working from home for many years now, so lockdown didn’t really make a difference in terms of work habit for me as I already had…

Music has been playing in my life ever since I was a teenager in Bangkok. I would tune in to 107.7fm …

One of the best-known opening sentences in French literature that I know is “Aujourd’hui, maman est morte”, in the 1942 novel L’Etranger by 1957 Nobel prize laureate in Literature, Albert Camus. My father died 7 days ago, between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, ironic as he was a real atheist…

Very often after an entrepreneur finishes pitching his company to us at Expon Capital and we start the Q&A session, I start drilling down on his unit metrics, trying to understand his business model, ie how he expects to make money. Often, the entrepreneur says s/he is grateful for the…

Not a week goes by without an entrepreneur sending me an email, a LinkedIn message, a message on one of the gazillion apps that events promote for their own event, and any of the messenging apps (Whatsapp if they have my number, telegram, etc.). for a coffee … Why do…

(Originally posted on 8 June 2018, updated on 10 September 2019) This is a follow-up post to my previous one on how to get in touch with us at Expon Capital. I had an early breakfast this morning with an entrepreneur I knew. He came with a list of VC…

(Originally posted on 31 May 2018. Updated on 21 November 2020? Updated on 28 January 2023). One question I get asked often, is what are the best productivity tools out there to make our lives as entrepreneurs, and investors better? Here’s a list I’ve compiled from my personal usage over…