Tag: investment
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Invest into Antifragile Start ups
An interesting thread here about how many start ups are going to be laying off staff / downsizing / failing over the next year or so because the expected revenue can not give the return for the sheer amount of seed funding that has gone into funding the start ups. Basically if 100m has been…
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SIPP Experience
I’ve finally got round to choosing some shares for my pension. As a recap: I moved my pension out of an existing pension company and put it into a SIPP (a self invested personal pension). This means I can choose how I want to invest the money (shares, funds, etc) so long as it’s in…
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Financial Advisors: Working towards Financial Antifragility
I’ve finally got round to speaking with a financial advisor. I told the advisor that my goal was to work toward financial antifragility. For obvious reasons. He knew the concept of antifragility and was very amenable to the idea, but, naturally, he had his ‘tried and tested methodology’ which he has been using with clients…
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Comparing Value
I posted a poll on LinkedIn a couple weeks ago. It didn’t garner much response, but the results were nonetheless telling. I was curious to know what people consider to be valuable to them. But to do this, I wanted to take money out of the equation and instead use an asset that most have…
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Antifragile Investments and the J-curve
I watched this podcast where Lex Fridman invited Jason Calacanis, an angel investor and entrepreneur, to discuss about start-ups and angel investments. At 1:31:48, it has been discussed the question of when should a startup raise money? Jason Calacanis used the “J curve” to explain what’s usually happening when a group of people decide to…
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Summary: Dhandho Investor – The Low Risk Method to High Returns
Mohnish Pabrai couldn’t figure out how on Earth the Patels – an small immigrant community that only arrived in the US a few decades ago with barely any assets to their name – managed to acquire $40bn worth of American motel and hotel assets. He came to realise that the answer is in their approach: low…