If you have an interest in investing, or you have a work related 401k, a personal/Roth IRA or any kind of retirement account (or investment management account), then you probably know that bluest chip of indexes, the Standard’s and Poor’s 500 or simply S&P500. It’s the benchmark index for the US economy, every investment portfolio, […]
Month: March 2015
These Guys Want to Help You Invest in Startups Before They IPO
Or are they? I found a curious thing. It’s an exchange called Sandhill Exchange that claims to help you invest in hot startups before they go public. Which lately, as we all know, has become the best time to invest in them (I mean companies are raising private funding rounds of $2billion. We’ve had IPOs ten […]
Apple Stuff.
You know when Jay-z retired, then unretired? You know when a soccer star hangs his boot, then unhangs it? You remember when Thierry Henry came back to Arsenal for a season? Then you know how I felt yesterday during Apple’s event. I felt fulfilled. I felt happy. I felt satisfied. I hadn’t felt that way […]
A Bill Gates Story
I ran into a story about Bill Gates today that I thought was funny and brilliant. I’ve reproduced it below: ” When I was an assistant professor at Harvard, Bill Gates was a junior. My girlfriend back then said that I had told her: “There’s this undergrad at school who is the smartest person I’ve […]