Equity investments

Recently I saw my friend, who is a business angel, working on his further equity investments. He viewed a number of website in search for some companies trying to raise funds and evaluated approx 20-30 different companies a day. Such evaluation (pre due diligence as he calls it) means he has to read about the particular company business model, go through the company website, find some information about the CEOs and the company owners and sometimes exchange few emails with Board. And still, out of each 20 business opportunities he takes an effort to thoroughly analyse only 1, which makes him visit 5 companies a week. So imagine – how work requiring business angel job is! He spends a lot of money on travels and due diligence processes done by his lawyers and still he has to earn enough to cover the risk, for investing in non public companies.

One thing is for sure – equity investments is much more complex business than running a tattoo shop .

Polish tattoo scene

My cousin from Poland just send me this tattoo site, as he described it to be the most interesting Polish tattoo scene website. Well, to me it’s only some good photos, since I do not understand a word out of it. It’s quite amusing and funny .

Tattoos in foreign languages ;)

In Polish tattoos are called: tatuaze. I know that since my cousin is Polish and I have a blogger friend there.

In Italy tattoos are named tatuaggio – my friend Roberto told me that .

In France, as Melinda told me, tattoos are called tatouage.

I just checked the ‘Sie German’ tattoo word in the dictionary – it’s Tätowierung (anyone knows how to read that?).

Medusa tattoos

Medusa tattoos is a specific form of Greek tattoo style that intrigues me the most. Medusa was a mythological creature with snakes growing out of her head instead of hair. She was beheaded and Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom put her head on a shield.

Medusa tattoos symbolize strong and deadly woman – femme fatale. Since Medusa was believed to be a very beautiful woman, who turned men into stone, this is a rather interesting symbolic. If you are also a woman who lures men to their end, you might want to consider getting a Medusa tattoo.

Medusa tattoos are one of the most popular Greek mythology tattoo forms – I wonder if this means that we have a number of femme fatale fascinated with Greek mythology and tattoo art in our society?

 

Tattoos for all

Tattoos for all is another example of home made and interesting website about tattoo. This portal contains several really interesting articles about the tattoo art and piercing. If you want to check out some news about eyeball tattoo or some extreme piercing techniques, try this one out.

Greek tattoos

Greek tattoos is a rather specific and mysterious tattoo art style. These tattoos not only base on mythology, but often they refer to culture and philosophy of Ancient Greece. Greek tattoos can be simple, as for instance quite popular armbands with greek key pattern, but they also might have a really complex meaning hidden in some unique image. This tattoo style is not very popular, most of the Greek tattoos enthusiasts are Greek themselves. I know two people who have Greek tattoos and however they’re not Greeks, they both are fascinated by Ancient Greek mythology and philosophy.

One can say a lot bad things about Greece nowadays (they’re almost bankrupt), however their history is really fascinating and inspiring. That makes Greek tattoos something special and however this is certainly not the mainstream of the tattoo art, it’s really cool.

 

Cool tattoo sites

Tattoo – this one is a small portal with source information about some tattoo styles and tattoo schools. I like such amateur websites, beacuase they sometimes present some really interesting and unique view on the tattoo art. Definitively this one is worth of visiting, especially that it’s owned by a friend of mine .