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Do you know about any other of those types of clubs?

• jakarta 16y ago
  The biggest difference between VIC and SZ is that VIC requires members to stay anonymous whereas SZ posts your full name and where you work whenever you post an idea. You can often figure out the identity of a VIC member because you'll see them post the exact same idea on SumZero at the same time. So that's eroded a bit of the anonymity. Some people disagree with the lack of anonymity, they think that without it people will be influenced when it comes to rate ideas. It's been my experience so far that this is actually not the case. Well rated ideas mostly get there on their own merit.
  • dsplittgerber 16y ago
    Great insights, thanks! What I personally struggle with is learning all the necessary knowledge and lingo, coming from a different field - it's so much harder to even get to the point where you might come up with an investment idea of your own when you're not doing it professionally (yet).
    • jakarta 16y ago
      On sites like VIC, you can grab a guest account where you see ideas that are 45 days old. SumZero also has their weekly idea e-mail which Conor mentioned above. From there, I think you can get a really good understanding of how to lay out your investment thesis and what kinds of factors are relevant. I spent a good amount of time reverse engineering ideas on VIC before submitting my own. You'll pick up all kinds of relevant metrics/industry lingo by doing that.