“Startup.” Ah, what an exciting word…
It brings to mind the anticipation and wealth-building potential of being part of “The Next Facebook” or “The Next Google.”
But for a handful of smart investors, the word “startup” conjures up something that’s a little less world changing, but (depending on how you…
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That’s what I heard when I picked up my phone yesterday. It was an old friend on the line, someone I used to work with on Wall Street.
“Umm, 2013?” I replied.
“Good, just checking – because based on this Twitter IPO, I thought it…
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One day it seems like you know exactly what you’re doing. The next day you turn on CNBC and some “talking head” is preaching about how wrong you are.
In the late 90’s, you were “missing out” if you weren’t investing in dot-com companies.
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Once or twice in every generation, a new invention will change the trajectory of entire industries – the assembly line during the industrial revolution, for example, or the Internet in the ‘90s.
We, and many others in the technology community, believe that “3D Printing,” or “Personal Manufacturing,” is our generation’s…
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Warren Buffett – renowned investor and 2nd richest man in the country after Bill Gates – once wrote an article called, “The Superinvestors of Graham & Doddsville.”
With a title that sounds like a Dr. Seuss book, it rebutted a popular theory on the stock market called “efficient market theory”…
Video games that can cure cancer…
Computerized contact lenses…
A train that travels at the speed of sound…
It’s exciting to hear about far-out ideas like these when they show up in the news. But like many “big ideas,” they can be closer to science fiction than to reality.
Actually,…
