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Objective Investments

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…

Business Failures

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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…

Sh*tty Investor

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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…

VC Investor

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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…

Publishing Business

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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…

Real Estate Investor

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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…

Real Estate Industry Capital Raising

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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…

Real Estate Industry Business Advisor

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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…

Real Estate Lawyer

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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. …

Real Estate Smorgasbord

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I work hard. Indeed an average work week for me is about 80 hours. Now this may sound awful and you might think ‘what is wrong with this Old Guy?’ But I think I have the last laugh here since what many call work is really play for…

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