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The Next Billion Dollar Retailer
By now we’ve all heard of Amazon’s near-billion dollar acquisition of Zappos which provided a tremendous return to Zappos’ original investors – Sequoia Capital and Venture Frogs. In fact, they only invested $60 million in the company over seven rounds. And, now, they’re sitting on a billion dollar return. How’s that for IRR? Obviously, this [...]
read more »Does this rally signal the bottom?
A cute one-liner to end the last night’s SNL:Weekend Update is surprisingly apt. Last week marked the first time we’ve seen four consecutive positive closes in the markets since 2007. Those of us with long biases in our portfolio were finally given a little bit of respite from the onslaught of relentless selling. Does that [...]
read more »Welcome TheStreet.com Readers…
… and any other new readers! It seems that this blog has gotten a little string of publicity with a mention on Bloomberg News earlier in the week and a quote in a new article by TheStreet.com, “Apple Investors, the Love’s Still Strong“. As such, the site has had an influx of new visitors who [...]
read more »Humorous Economic Punditry
Here’s a little humor for the weekend. As we all know, it seems that the porn industry isn’t as recession resistant as we seem to think. In fact, Larry Flint (of Hustler fame) and Joe Francis (of Girls Gone Wild Fame) are calling for their own $5 billion bailout. Larry Flint summed up with this statement: [...]
read more »Guest Blogging at GrowYourFunds.com
A few days ago Aaron Smith of GrowYourFunds.com was kind enough to ask me to guest blog for his site. My post ran today and, in case you’re interested, I’d like to direct your attention to my little column on the state of the markets. It’s a quick piece putting the current correction into historical [...]
read more »Weekend Diversions: Video Learning
This one is for readers of The Curious Investor who are interested in trading and technical analysis. I recently found out about INO.com through FeedtheBull. INO is a highly diversified trading website which features everything from basic charts and news to trade scans and trading tutorials. For full disclosure, you may notice that I have [...]
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