Trade Brains

JUNE 18, 2025

The startup explosion in sectors such as AI, cloud computing, fintech, and e-commerce has propelled numerous founders and early-stage investors into the ranks of billionaires. Even in 2025, many of the world’s richest people are portfolio managers, stock traders, or financial firm founders.

Healthcare

Harness Wealth

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Alternative investments offer investors access to startups, real estate, and other non-traditional opportunities beyond stocks and bonds. For VC and startup investments, platforms such as AngelList and Hiive offer solutions to individual investors. Eligibility: Usually requires accredited investor status.

Taxes

The Big Picture

JANUARY 21, 2025

I think it’s very hard to say stocks are objectively cheap because all of these valuation metrics have, have become unreliable over the decades as the nature of the stock market has changed. And then I was approached by Citigroup about being director of financial education for this startup called MiFi.

Investing

The Big Picture

JULY 15, 2025

But before we get to that, let’s start with Bachelor’s in economics from Hamilton, MBA from NYU. And a friend of mine who had gotten fired from this economic consulting firm, got a job at Chase Econometrics, IDC, and said, you have to come over here. Barry Ritholtz : I’m, I’m thrilled to have you.

Numbers

Abnormal Returns

DECEMBER 7, 2023

nytimes.com) Is Austin, TX losing its luster as a startup hub? techcrunch.com) SpaceX SpaceX is reportedly planning a tender offer for employee shares at a $175 billion valuation. axios.com) Economy Kyla Scanlon, "People are complex and economics doesn’t (can’t!) yahoo.com) Why SpaceX continues to win new launch business.

Digital Media

Abnormal Returns

MAY 2, 2024

Does that mean you are less enamored of Berkshire shares at current valuations? ' (barrons.com) How long will Ajit Jain stay in the lead of Berkshire's insurance business? newyorker.com) What to do about startups that borrowed money in age of ZIRP. and Europe are decoupling economically. calculatedriskblog.com) The U.S.

Financial Advising

Abnormal Returns

MARCH 20, 2024

marginalrevolution.com) Finance Private equity is stuck between elevated valuations high interest rates and a moribund IPO market. variety.com) Streaming is so complicated that it needs a startup to help consumers navigate it. (amycastor.com) Companies It's hard to wrap your head around the numbers with Nvidia's ($NVDA) new chips.

Financial Advising

Abnormal Returns

JANUARY 18, 2023

institutionalinvestor.com) Startup valuations trended down in the second half of 2022. angellist.com) Economic uncertainty is not slow the pace of investment at Brookfield Infrastructure Partners ($BIP). (washingtonpost.com) Finance Morgan Stanley ($MS) is besting Goldman Sachs ($GS) when it comes to wealth management.

Financial Advising

Abnormal Returns

JUNE 11, 2023

platformer.news) VC You can expect to see more startups closing up shop as funding dries. wsj.com) How a seed investor approaches valuation discussions. axios.com) The economic schedule for the coming week. (axios.com) How the Apple Watch saved the luxury watch industry. om.co) Twitter really hates paying its bills.

Financial Advising

Cornerstone Financial Advisory

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

6 This Week: Key Economic Data Tuesday: Existing Home Sales. Source: Econoday, November 17, 2023 The Econoday economic calendar lists upcoming U.S. economic data releases (including key economic indicators), Federal Reserve policy meetings, and speaking engagements of Federal Reserve officials. FOMC Minutes.

Marketing

Trade Brains

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

They’re about shaping India’s economic future. We’re seeing traditional giants and new-age startups alike step into the spotlight. This offering is expected to be one of the largest in India’s corporate history, with a potential valuation exceeding ₹9.3 trillion ($112 billion). 10 billion.

Banking

The Big Picture

MAY 7, 2024

She’s also involved with wealth.com, and I could, I could give you a long list of all the things she’s, she’s done Kahoot, super telly, just all, all these really fascinating startups. So I, you know, I, I learned so much and Microsoft was like a startup inside of a big company for me. Barry Ritholtz : Huh.

Startup

Trade Brains

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The article was published in ‘The Economic Times’ bringing lots of fame to the agency and its founder. Outlook Money begins each edition with a topic that covers any ongoing economic scenario or gives a basic outlook of the market. The Magazine’s prime focus is on economic trends and their effect on a particular sector.

Marketing

The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Brad Gerstner is a founder and investor in technology startups. And he had a little startup RV company called Forest River. But one of the things I learned in that first startup, I had two guys on the two investors who were not traditional venture capitalists. What can I say? Once again? I have an extra special guest.

Investing

Brown Advisory

JULY 22, 2020

But rather than simply chasing after past winners, experienced investors know to look for the core factors that allow these startups to flourish: capital, talent, and customers. Successful startups are all about human capital—entrepreneurs with enough vision, passion and drive to overcome the countless obstacles they will encounter.

Startup

Brown Advisory

JULY 22, 2020

But rather than simply chasing after past winners, experienced investors know to look for the core factors that allow these startups to flourish: capital, talent, and customers. Successful startups are all about human capital—entrepreneurs with enough vision, passion and drive to overcome the countless obstacles they will encounter.

Startup

Brown Advisory

MARCH 1, 2016

In 2011, a Tel Aviv-based startup called Cyvera began developing cybersecurity software deploying the coding equivalents of barriers and traps to thwart hackers staging potentially devastating “zero-day attacks.” Less than two years later, Palo Alto Networks purchased the company for $200 million—a more than 25-fold surge in valuation.

Valuation

The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

In the short run, there can be distortions in public market valuations as we saw in 2001 and we saw prior to that in 2007, and prior to that in 2000, in ‘99. RITHOLTZ: But you’re not dealing with startups; you’re dealing with — BARATTA: Correct. You see these things before they start to show up in the economic data.

Assets

The Richer Geek

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

He has several degrees from the University of Southern California, London School of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the best schools. So that's why you ask for a lower valuation because nothing's proven out. Because he's proven he's been there.

Valuation

Cornerstone Financial Advisory

MAY 21, 2024

2,3 Investors took a break as the week ended, mostly yawning at mixed economic data. 4,5 This Week: Key Economic Data Monday: Fed Officials Michael Barr, Raphael Bostic, Christopher Waller, and Philip Jefferson speak for the first time. percent and 1.2 percent, respectively. Meanwhile, the bellwether 10-year Treasury yield fell to 4.35

Marketing

Brown Advisory

MARCH 24, 2021

And like gold, Bitcoin is expensive to mine, difficult to value and impractical for everyday economic transactions. If a business has wonderful economics that are easy to understand but extremely difficult to replicate, then we believe in holding the investment for the long term. In other words, it’s akin to digital gold. Catherine D.

Assets

Brown Advisory

MARCH 24, 2021

And like gold, Bitcoin is expensive to mine, difficult to value and impractical for everyday economic transactions. If a business has wonderful economics that are easy to understand but extremely difficult to replicate, then we believe in holding the investment for the long term. In other words, it’s akin to digital gold. Catherine D.

Assets

Fortune Financial

AUGUST 31, 2022

Many firms and startups, whose shares can be bought and sold, are involved in green industries, such as alternative energies and materials. Climate-related financial shocks will disproportionately affect brown funds, even two to three times more than those in green funds, according to the World Economic Forum.

Investing

Brown Advisory

JANUARY 4, 2016

What is behind this sudden surge in the unicorn population, and are some of these valuations “spiraling” out of control? Bull market for public equities: Certainly, the run-up in public market valuations over the past few years has spurred gains in private market values over the same period. Lee coined the term. Rapid Growth.

Investing

Abnormal Returns

AUGUST 6, 2023

Markets Cullen Roche, "This has been one of the more fascinating years in economic and market history." michaelparekh.substack.com) Venture capital Q2 2023 startup data from AngelList show median valuations back to pre-pandemic levels. should let China continue to shoot itself in the (economic) foot.

Financial Advising

Bell Investment Advisors

JUNE 29, 2023

That just sparked an immediate run on their bank. 06:52 All these startups pulled money out because they were uninsured, for the most part. economy, the first quarter of this year was positive with positive economic growth. On the negative side, there have been some negative economic indicators (in this case) for a few months now.

Marketing

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

You graduate Harvard in 1990, with an Economics and Computer Science degree, perfect for the explosion of the Internet; a PhD from MIT and Information Technology in ‘96. WENGER: Yeah, that had really been my goal since my own first startup in ’96, ‘97, which was a company called W3Health that ultimately failed. Why is that?

Valuation

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

( Washington Post ) • The Most Powerful Mental Model for Identifying Stocks.Pick up a business with good economics and with good margin of safety, and the probability of making money in the long run is high. Safal Niveshak ) • This Company Created a Return-to-Office Plan That Employees Actually Like : J.M.

Strategic Planning

The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

CHANCELLOR: And look — yeah, but then if you look at the valuation of the market at that time, the market was — the U.S. CHANCELLOR: And look — yeah, but then if you look at the valuation of the market at that time, the market was — the U.S. All our economic actions are taking place across time.

Banking

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Bachelor of Commerce with honors from Delhi University, a Master’s in Economic from Vanderbilt, and then an MBA from the University of Chicago. We should be like, 00:06:58 [Speaker Changed] It’s 00:06:58 [Speaker Changed] A startup. But then also the economic reason that, hey, I have it marked down.

Banking

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

? ?. The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Steve Case on AOL, Startups & Venture , is below. And if you are at all interested in technology, venture, startups, entrepreneurship, I suspect you will also. And in our early days, we really just tried to figure out like many startups get noticed to stay alive.

Startup

WiserAdvisor

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The gaming industry is expanding at a fast pace, with eSports teams and gaming startups at the forefront of this revolution. eSports had a valuation of $1.45 Its past performance has proven resilient against rising prices and economic downturns with little correlation to mainstream markets. eSports is not just a trend.

Investing

The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia , is below. You’re known as the dean of valuation. He said, oh, dean of valuation, it’s easier to say. So let’s start with the question, what led you to focus on valuation? RITHOLTZ: Right. And I said, why?

Valuation

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And we’d sort of turn that into a valuation business. MILLER: Well actually I thought, leading up to the great financial crisis, I thought to myself, we’re going to be out of business within a couple of years because nobody wanted an independent valuation. What are the, you know, I’d literally have it in my handheld.

Sales

Aleph

JANUARY 7, 2023

Picture Credit: David Merkel, with an assist from the YouImagine AI image generator || Even logos need a vacation every now and then Investing Hedge funds gave Discord, Stripe, SpaceX and other startups billions. Valuations are *still* not cheap yet. link] 80/20 is best for the long haul. ” Keep the two systems separate.

Banking

Aleph

JANUARY 16, 2024

LPs Doubt Venture Funds’ Startup Valuations The incentives are perverse in setting marks for private equity. They only cared that headline GDP statistics kept growing, not the net economic welfare of their citizens. Nobel Prize Winner Cautions on Rush Into STEM After Rise of AI No, keep your eyes on the prize.

Insurance

The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2023

My mid-week morning train WFH reads: • The Pandemic Small-Business Boom Is Fueling the US Economy : Startup registrations remain 42% ahead of 2019 levels, with growing numbers of companies founded by women and minorities. Wall Street Journal ) • Should We Expect Valuations to Mean-Revert Over Time?

Startup