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How I Did It: Serial Entrepreneur Richard Heckmann(inc.com)
2 points by jakarta 16y ago|0 comments
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by jakarta 16y ago
The black jack win was more of a confidence booster. He was going through a tough time, his investors would not raise additional funds. So he made $30K playing black jack which boosted his confidence and went on to raise another $10M or so.
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by jakarta 16y ago
You do the same thing, over and over again. If you look at some of the most successful businessmen in history, you'll see that a lot of what they did was find some kind of unexploited area of the market and take advantage of it. Usually it
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by jakarta 16y ago
Not a whole lot. Sysco (SYY), the food distributor. Fiserv (FISV), they do a lot of payment processing. But, those two benefit from having business models which are more resilient to economic downturns than FedEx.
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by jakarta 16y ago
FedEx also has an interesting story: "In 1962, Smith entered Yale University. While attending Yale, he wrote a paper for an economics class, outlining overnight delivery service in a computer information age. Folklore suggests that he recei
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Andy Grove: How To Make An American Job Before It's Too Late(bloomberg.com)
120 points by jakarta 16y ago|158 comments
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by jakarta 16y ago
Betting is speculating. "Speculation is a financial action that does not promise safety of the initial investment along with the return on the principal sum." And I agree - speculating is buying BP stock. David Barse of Third Avenue even sa
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by jakarta 16y ago
Does it? How exactly do you determine Tesla is cheap (or expensive)? The business is set to lose $120M this year and according to the prospectus for the stock that I'm flipping through - they are basically betting their future on the $60K m
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by jakarta 16y ago
There's a big difference between getting VC funding and getting a loan from the US Govt. The US Govt is going to be more likely to loan to businesses where the underlying economics just aren't there -- which is why the private sector is unw
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by jakarta 16y ago
Is it really wise to invest in companies that depend on loans from the US Govt to operate? I'm not too sure. I've been pretty impressed with BYD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_Company At the very least, with BYD you have the chance to
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by jakarta 16y ago
Except you would not have gotten the 40% pop that IPO investors received.
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Ask HN: Are advertising agencies broken?
6 points by jakarta 16y ago|9 comments
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From an Intern to Leader of Civilization V(online.wsj.com)
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Transitivity and How to Win When You’re an Underdog (contenta.mkt1710.com)
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by jakarta 16y ago
Look, I understand that this wont persuade you. From other threads, I know you are a hardcore proponent of EMH. But someone else might find this insightful: Buybacks work in theory, but they depepnd on a lot of factors. Essentially what you
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by jakarta 16y ago
Screening for negative enterprise value (Market Cap + Debt - Cash) is pretty popular. There aren't a whole lot of stocks that have it, but you can usually find a handful based in the US. They are sort of an inefficiency. In one sense, you a
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Pixar’s leaders want to make their creative powerhouse outlast them(economist.com)
14 points by jakarta 16y ago|3 comments
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How Pixar’s leaders want to make their creative powerhouse outlast them(economist.com)
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Titans Of Industry Don't Really Like Free Markets(cjr.org)
43 points by jakarta 16y ago|39 comments
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by jakarta 16y ago
Here's a bit from Barton Biggs' Hedgehogging that might be insightful: Gerson Bleichroder was a nineteen-century German Jew who had a life filled with immense financial triumph, persecution, and personal sadness. Otto Von Bismarck represent
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by jakarta 16y ago
Here is an article from 1955 that details more about what they read: http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,861231,00.html
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by jakarta 16y ago
a short interview with Lloyds of London's space underwriter: http://www.lloyds.com/News_Centre/Features_from_Lloyds/News_... Q: What special skills does a space underwriter need? A: With only 150 satellites in orbit and perhaps 25 satelli
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by jakarta 16y ago
I highly recommend Jane Street Capital, have a friend who worked there and absolutely loved it. Not only that, but that experience really gave him a leg up in terms of experience/applied knowledge for when he went on to work at a trading de
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by jakarta 16y ago
Peter Lynch, the investor who used to run Fidelity's Magellan fund used to have a saying that he wanted to invest in businesses that even his dumb nephew could run. The idea being, businesses that have great fundamental economics and compet
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by jakarta 16y ago
Yes, finding having a boom in natural resources does have the effect of crowding out other industries. I agree with you. That's "Dutch Disease" and you can find it in many well governed resource rich nations. The poster above brings up Albe
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by jakarta 16y ago
Plenty of countries are natural resource rich and do not run into major issues. Canada, the US, Australia, and yes - Norway, all come to mind. Usually, the factor that enables a country to resist corruption from natural resources comes from
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Pure CSS Twitter Fail Whale(subcide.com)
93 points by jakarta 16y ago|22 comments
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$34 Billion Asset Manager Says Market Prices Are Manipulated(zerohedge.com)
34 points by jakarta 16y ago|10 comments
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by jakarta 16y ago
"Its really going to piss me off that my phone call isn't going through because some jerkoff is harvesting virtual cabbage."
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Facebook's Insignia Hoodie: $1,525(cgi.ebay.com)
2 points by jakarta 16y ago|0 comments

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