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Mexico’s Slim tops the list of world’s richest(msnbc.msn.com)
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From Minnesota Log Cabin to $1.6B Hedge Fund(reuters.com)
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The Hidden Risks of Flying(bloomberg.com)
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Résumé (C.V.) using Google Maps(maps.google.co.uk)
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Venture-Capital Firms Caught in a Shakeout(online.wsj.com)
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What Geeks Don't Get: The Limits of Moneyball(thepaintedarea.blogspot.com)
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What Happened to Nanotech?(bespokeinvest.com)
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David Chang's Momofuku has a great website for its restaurants: http://www.momofuku.com/ Everything is pretty stripped down and simplified. No gratuitous use of flash. I also like their use of reservations, for the most part the system is
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The trick though is paying the right price for acquisitions. Studies have shown that acquirers tend to overpay on acquisitions, so it is important to have someone in place that has the discipline necessary. IBM might have someone like that
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Yeah, if you want to put MSFT into runoff, then this would be the appropriate approach. But, if shareholders would rather MSFT survive, they should look into hiring a savvy CIO to handle that end of the business. Either can work, it just de
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by jakarta 17y ago
But Microsoft's not really trading at an inflated price. On an EV/EBITDA basis the company is around 10x. Conversely, Apple is around 15x and Google is about 16x. Both multiples imply some pretty rich growth prospects whereas MSFT's 10x doe
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by jakarta 17y ago
Why does the answer have to be invest in tech? Microsoft throws off something like $14B in free cash flow. They could use their toll booth-like cash flow to acquire good businesses that offer nice, steady returns, in areas outside of tech.
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Berkshire's market cap is $204.655B http://online.barrons.com/public/quotes/main.html?symbol=BRK...
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Maybe I can help fill the gap a bit. There is an online forum for value investors called value investors club. In order to become a member, you have to submit an investment idea which is then evaluated. If it is good enough, you get in and
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tell that to the Goldman Sachs Alpha Fund
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From what I have heard, he is in the middle of a lawsuit right now with some of his investors.
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I attended a talk by Michael Lewis a little over a year ago. One of the questions I asked him was whether or not he believed financial journalists dropped the ball with reporting on the bubble that led up to the crisis. Lewis made the point
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I don't know if I quite agree with that. If you look at a lot of value investors / contrarians, you will see that a good number of them were exposed early on to the kinds of irrational thinking that can occur with crowds. I think these expe
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How a Doctor beat Wall Street(vanityfair.com)
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They don't mention it in the article, but if anyone gets a chance, I would suggest they read about his activities as a board member for The Washington Post. When Buffett joined the board, Katharine Graham had just taken control. Her husband
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When CEOs Have Warren Buffett In Their Boardroom(businessweek.com)
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The Current State of Spycraft(online.wsj.com)
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Early Humans Used Brain Power, Innovation and Teamwork to Dominate the Planet(scientificamerican.com)
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Warren Buffett's 2009 Letter(berkshirehathaway.com)
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I love this bit: "The first practitioners, including Eugene Kleiner and me, had familiarity with Wall Street operators and we set up our partnerships to avoid specifically problematic practices. These parameters included: no leverage; audit
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Silicon Valley Is Not Wall Street: Tom Perkins(online.wsj.com)
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Recipes are interesting in that most reviewers actually alter the recipe, making star reviews misleading. So someone might post a bad recipe and have other members alter it and rate it highly after their own modifications. You can only figu
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I still think this is the wrong approach. Interviews are tough to monetize because the benefits are pretty intangible. The Charlie Rose model is better I think. Where you do long 1 hr interviews and get sponsorships to help pay for costs. I
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by jakarta 17y ago
It depends on what kind of tech company you are talking about. A Microsoft will have a fairly understandable business model with predictable cashflows. Conversely, most young, public tech companies are more of a gamble on management teams/p

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