Equity dilution is the curse of the startup executive. If you don’t understand how equity dilution works, you can find yourself working very hard.for very little. If you are a senior executive at a startup company and you don’t understand how stock dilution works, you may be on the path to a painful lesson. Don’t [...]
A lot of people have been waiting for a correction for some time. Sure, the markets look stretched and a correction looks imminent. However, corrections will not happen just because we want it to happen. I have also observed that corrections seldom happen when so many participants are eagerly waiting for them to happen. In [...]
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20 Oct 2009Warren Buffett was born in Omaha , Nebraska . At an early age Buffett was known to have an extremely good sense of the business world. As a youngster, he read every book on business, the stock market, and economics, in the whole Omaha public library. At age 11, he began working at his father’s [...]
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20 Oct 2009So you’ve decided to become an entrepreneur. Congratulations – half your battle is won. The next half of the battle begins now – starting with the legal aspects and procedures involved in starting a business. The next step for you would be to form a legal business entity. For doing so, it is important that [...]
Bubbles are like pornography: Everyone has his or her own opinion as to what qualifies, but it is impossible to pen a precise definition. If you wish to push the metaphor further, both are also fun for a while, if you like that sort of thing, but apt to end up making you feel deflated [...]
Investors who have different risk profiles, investment objectives and time frames will adopt different investment strategies in order to achieve a similar result. Basically, there are two types of investors; aggressive and conservative. An aggressive investor will take a shorter time period to achieve the desired result as his risk attitude should reward him with [...]
There are many investors who don’t know what to do to protect themselves in the stock markets. It comes as no surprise: every self-proclaimed guru claims to have the best strategy since sliced bread. What these ‘gurus’ don’t provide is details — at least not free of charge. Fortunately, there are several simple strategies that [...]
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