T’was a family secret it was true And that meant no one knew So she only told her mother Who swore to tell no other Of course she also told her sister And her husband when he kissed her This was by no means spilling the beans After all these were not […]
Along the way, I formed an investment company called Objective Investments. After ten years I think we broke even and my wife wondered why I didn’t just give our money to one of my clients because – in her words – ‘every time we give them money they give us back more.’ This whole business was […]
Business failures — there have been a bunch of them. My most prominent was that I created and opened The Plumpling House, which was a creative dumpling cuisine. I lost a (large) fortune and could write a book on how not to open and run a restaurant. My only intelligent action was closing it up in 87 days […]
Sh_tty Investor – unfortunately, I am a terrible investor. My instincts seem to start from the view that I am smarter than everyone else and then lose money. Not the best plan. The most salient of these was my investment career in the stock market where I found stocks that went down – and even […]
VC Investor – I regularly provide seed capital to creative sponsors with interesting business ideas. My checks are not large; however, I try to be strategically useful as well as providing funding. Most of these end in failure but there are some big winners now and then so overall I guess it does “okay”.
Publishing Business – I teamed up with a good friend to buy into a publishing company – called Easton Press. This is the company that has published my fiction book, Faythe of North Hinkapee, and I find my partner there – David Wilk – to be just about the most knowledgeable person in the entire publishing industry. Through […]
Real Estate Investor: I have invested with various clients in their real estate endeavors; however, so far I have been smart enough not to dabble directly in real estate itself, since, being honest with myself, I would have no clue how to do it. See my book, How to Invest in Real Estate if You Know […]
Real Estate Capital Raising: I was formerly licensed to act as a placement through a FINRA-approved broker dealer. This was through a company I formed called The Useful Bruce LLC, www.theusefulbruce.com. Through this activity I was permitted to raise capital for real estate parties. After a while it got too confusing between the law firm and […]
Real Estate Industry Business Advisor: Since in my day job I am a real estate junkie, I find myself with not only legal expertise, but deep industry expertise as well. In this capacity, I work to help real estate players succeed in building their real estate businesses. I (mostly ) try not to put on […]
Real Estate Lawyer: About 25 years ago – I guess now 26 years ago — I founded a law firm in New York City called Duval & Stachenfeld, with the name recently changed to Adler & Stachenfeld. By the way, my last name is in fact Stachenfeld. Over the years I built this into a […]