An interview with Brian Armstrong
Brian Armstrong (his Twitter) is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. The company can be described as an international digital wallet that allows you to securely buy, use, and accept the roller coaster...
View ArticleRyan Graves from Uber talks
In my lessons learned from interviews with famous entrepreneurs of the Foundation series, I heard of a guy called Ryan Graves. He's now working at at Uber. But, according to Chris Sacca, when Ryan...
View ArticleBook review: How to fail at almost everything and still win big
You can today find Dilbert in 2000 newspapers in 65 countries.The comic strip Dilbert needs no introduction, but the author of the comic, Scott Adams, needs. To help us, he has written the book How to...
View ArticleAn interview with Tony Fadell
Tony Fadell (his Twitter) is the CEO and co-founder of Nest and he is also considered to be one of the creators of Apple's iPod. The goal of Nest is to take the unloved products in your home and make...
View ArticleWhy you need to learn statistical thinking
"Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write," is a quote by H.G. Wells. This quote is one of four quotes that opens the book How to Lie...
View ArticleWho Really Won the Olympic Games in Sochi
Despite many ups and downs, including "black widows" and lost wolves, the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi ended without any major incidents. Russia got the most gold medals, followed by Norway and Canada....
View ArticleTesla Motors History Timeline
This article is a part of the article series Tesla Motors Stock AnalysisIf you've found this page you probably know what Tesla Motors is, and if you don't know you will in a near future understand why...
View ArticleAn interview with David Byttow
Before David Byttow (his Twitter) co-founded the company Secret (and became the CEO of the company), he was an engineer at Google, Medium, and Square.Lessons learnedHe got the job at Google despite the...
View ArticleAn interview with Jerry Colonna
Jerry Colonna (his Twitter) was a venture capitalist in New York City and played a prominent part in the early development of Silicon Alley. He's now a life and business coach where he helps clients...
View ArticleMind-blowing facts about Africa
As the title says, this article will cover mind-blowing facts about Africa. If you are interested in learning about mind-blowing facts about China, click here.Over 1000 languages are spoken in Africa...
View ArticleAn interview with Jackson Palmer
Jackson Palmer (his Twitter) is working at Adobe and has created the new crypto-currency Dogecoin - a currency very similar to Bitcoin. The interviewer Kevin Rose argued in another interview that...
View ArticleWhy Tesla sells so many electric cars
Let's say that you would like to buy an electric car. What technical specifications would you be interested in when you are looking for one? I would like to know the speed, the range, the price, and...
View ArticlePeak Oil - Are we there yet?
It's time to update our charts to see if the world is running out of oil. If you would like to see the old charts, you can find them here: Oil Since 1859. But what's Peak Oil? The basic idea behind...
View ArticleA new old video with Peter Lynch
The number of videos available online starring Peter Lynch was exactly two until May 1, 2014, when someone on YouTube uploaded "Peter Lynch on Investing in the U.S. Economy" from 1994. If you've never...
View ArticleTesla Motors Stock Analysis
Tesla Motors (Ticker: TSLA) main business idea is to design, develop, manufacture, and sell electric cars. Roadster was the first car, but the main product in 2014 is Model S. They are currently...
View ArticlePeter Lynch analyzes Tesla Motors
Peter Lynch joined Fidelity in 1969 as a research analyst. In 1977, he took over the Fidelity Magellan Fund. The number of stocks in the Magellan Fund increased from 40 to 1400. 200 companies...
View ArticleWarren Buffett analyzes Tesla Motors
To analyze Tesla Motors with the help of Warren Buffett (no introduction needed), we are going to use the book Money Masters of Our Time by John Train. Buffett has never written a book about how he...
View ArticleSolarCity Stock Analysis
SolarCity (Ticker: SCTY) was founded in 2006 and has been a public company since 2012. One of the founders was the entrepreneur Elon Musk, who has also founded (or co-founded) companies like PayPal,...
View ArticleThe secret to who is a good trader or investor is meditation
Two of my favorite books that are related to the stock market are Market Wizards and The New Market Wizards by Jack Schwager. What distinct these books from most other books related to the stock market...
View ArticleSomalia is back - part 2
Almost a year ago I wrote an article with the subject that Somalia might be back in business. You can find it here: How to invest in specific countries in Africa, like Somalia and Rwanda. To...
View ArticlePeter Thiel analyzes Tesla Motors
While Peter Thiel was born in 1967 in Germany, his family moved to California when he was young. Stanford was the school of his choice before he began trading derivatives at the Credit Suisse Group. In...
View Article2015 Update: Peak Oil - Are we there yet?
About a year has passed since we looked at our old oil charts to see if we can see any signs of peak oil. You can see the 2014 version here. Enough talking, let's watch the charts.The chart above...
View ArticlePeter Lynch was right - you can't predict the economy
This is a quote by the famous investor Peter Lynch: I spend about 15 minutes a year on economic analysis. The way you lose money in the stock market is to start off with an economic picture. I also...
View ArticleWas Alan Turing a silver bug?
I'm reading the book Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. The book is a biography on the mathematician Alan Turing, who is the star in the 2014 movie The Imitation Game where he was portrayed by...
View ArticleDown Jones and S&P 500 January changes
Well 2016 wasn't a good start for the stock market (Hence the name Down Jones in the title)! Someone asked me how the stock market had previously behaved in January, so I decided to make a few...
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