Advisor Perspectives

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Earlier this month, OpenAI released its most-advanced models yet, saying they had the ability to “reason” and solve complex math and coding problems. The industry-leading startup, valued at some $150 billion, also acknowledged that they raised the risk artificial intelligence could be misused to create biological weapons.

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Clever Girl Finance

APRIL 22, 2025

If you’re good with math, then turning to financial planning or accounting or opening up a similar company could be one of the best recession proof businesses to start! Freelancing, virtual assistance, tutoring, pet care, and digital marketing services all require minimal startup costs.

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The Irrelevant Investor

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

When The Wall Street Journal first published "The Billion Dollar Startup Club" in February 2015, 84 companies had the rare unicorn status. Source: Crunchbase *I didn't do the math, but it feels right **I also wouldn't be surprised if today's numbers look crazy, and we can't believe what happened during this bubble. Now it's ordinary.

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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.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 31, 2018

has led AI research out of the gate, with its national focus on entrepreneurship and the startup infrastructure afforded by Silicon Valley and other innovation hubs. But the activity gap has narrowed over the past five years, and a growing number of startups, patent filings and VC dollars are now driven by Chinese innovation.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 31, 2018

has led AI research out of the gate, with its national focus on entrepreneurship and the startup infrastructure afforded by Silicon Valley and other innovation hubs. But the activity gap has narrowed over the past five years, and a growing number of startups, patent filings and VC dollars are now driven by Chinese innovation.

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Clever Girl Finance

JULY 13, 2022

If you liked math in school and have a knack for numbers, you might make a great bookkeeper. There are tons of online business ideas for women at home, but one that offers lots of flexibility and low startup costs is running an online store. Bookkeeping and accounting. Learn more about starting a photography business.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons.

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Clever Girl Finance

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

You can provide bookkeeping services online or offline, and it can be the best side hustle for women who are great at math and business. Obviously, this would take some startup capital, but it can be very lucrative. Your clients can range from local businesses in your area to hundreds of business owners online. Become a personal chef!

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management. Like, like the, you know, like the accounting standards.

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Clever Girl Finance

JULY 8, 2024

You can provide bookkeeping services online or offline, and it can be one of the best side jobs for women who are great at math and business management. Obviously, this would take some startup capital, but it can be very lucrative. Your clients can range from local businesses in your area to hundreds of business owners online.

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Clever Girl Finance

JULY 10, 2023

Believe it or not, you don’t need tons of money to create a startup. Average salary: $96,382 (Up to $191,607) Skills needed to become a real estate agent: Charisma People skills Communication Math Organization Time management 5. So here are three options you may consider. Did you know that commercial pilots don’t need a degree?

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Mr. Money Mustache

AUGUST 4, 2020

In the big picture, this usually leads to having a “successful” life, because of this basic math: Traditional Success. =. Observe the following cautionary tale: Diana is the director of engineering in a Silicon Valley tech startup. How much work you do. How much society happens to value your work.

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Clever Girl Finance

JULY 6, 2023

Bookkeeping and accounting If you liked math in school and have a knack for numbers, you might make a great bookkeeper. Running an online store There are tons of online business ideas for women at home, but one that offers lots of flexibility and low startup costs is running an online store.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 29, 2023

Institutional Investor ) • Bringing the lofty ideas of pure math down to earth : There is no shortage of popular books and lectures on math—but they can only teach us so much. ( MIT Technology Review ) • How the World Is Spending $1.1 MIT Technology Review ) • How the World Is Spending $1.1

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 17, 2023

Tight Money Will Pressure Startups to Sell in 2023 : Startups holding out for an IPO or Figma-scale acquisition are likely to be disappointed ( Businessweek ). The joy of sets : Why won’t our artistic-literary establishment recognise that there’s mystery, beauty and humanity in maths? A Wealth of Common Sense ). up from 3.2%

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Abnormal Returns

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

sciencedaily.com) A startup, Arch, wants to streamline the installation of heat pumps. wsj.com) The math doesn't work: why air passengers can't carry on all their bags. (vox.com) Why autonomous vehicles are not here yet. theverge.com) Rivian ($RIVN) owners are pretty happy with their purchases.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

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. From that experience, I realized that I really loved startups, but then I was never going to be good operator, but I thought I could maybe be a decent investor. Why is that?

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Abnormal Returns

OCTOBER 19, 2024

wsj.com) A startup has created carbon negative structural panels. npr.org) The math on farmed fish doesn't work. (grist.org) Environment What's to explain 2023-24's anomalous temperatures? yale.edu) What if natural carbon sinks stop 'sinking'? theguardian.com) How to improve the chances your plastics get recycled.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 21, 2025

But the numbers you can’t argue with, I mean, we all know that the brutal math of investing before costs investors collectively will earn the market return after costs. And then I was approached by Citigroup about being director of financial education for this startup called MiFi. You know, what would happen next?

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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.

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Mr. Money Mustache

JUNE 21, 2022

But, I did some math and if we sold the Airbnb with the other two houses, we’d have a chunk of cash big enough for me to mostly retire – working only if I really felt like it. Not sure if I want to do that, even if it makes sense to my math brain. We do not currently own stocks or index funds, and we have no debt.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 18, 2024

And so I left a OL for a startup in music. Now, you don’t mention in the book if you were incentivized with stock, but I assume you’re joining a startup. 00:40:26 [Speaker Changed] They, they know, they know math, they know math. And I was finding myself feeling suffocated at these big companies. Definitely.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So this is in pouring money into startups like venture does. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? It could be really a great thing for society, you know, if they buy it. So, you know, those are just some examples. We’ve had a bunch of good successes. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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Aleph

JANUARY 14, 2023

[link] Maybe, and it might be good to replace geometry with analytic geometry, but adding data science and probability will leave most STEM majors underprepared for college math. Jan 08, 2023 Also, the article is wrong when it states that current math pedagogy favors boys over girls. It is the opposite, except in the top decile.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

What are the advantages to being an individual making single decision investments into a startup? How, how different is the UK finance from the US and start the startup mentality? 00:19:00 [Speaker Changed] I mean, that’s a well established mature, if you could say mature startup region, correct. What does that even mean?

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The Big Picture

MAY 2, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So wait, you’re, I’m trying to do the math, if you were 24 in ‘08, so you got this watch in 2000, 99? I still think it is a startup, but it’s a startup where there’s a trail that’s been blazed. He gave me his Omega Speedmaster, which is a really nice watch.

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. We’re more startup than established entity, so not everybody has that ability. And that’s sort of the math. I don’t have that much– RITHOLTZ: The name of the startup is?

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

So the smartest thing I ever did in this where Social Leverage started is I took everything I made and just redistributed it to everybody I saw doing a startup around … RITHOLTZ: Just every company. So this is the math that I applied. So think about this, do the math. LINDZON: Yes. LINDZON: Anything that I saw, I wrote a 25.

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Abnormal Returns

JANUARY 26, 2025

ft.com) On the brutal math of a venture capital-backed company. (theblock.co) The many ways Trump can profit from his presidency, not just crypto. motherjones.com) Finance Blackrock ($BLK) and the FDIC are at loggerheads. riabiz.com) PE-backed company bankruptcies are ticking higher. techcrunch.com) Elon Banks are looking to off-load X loans.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This is the most important shipment in the history of this startup company based in Mississippi called Glow run by a guy named Hagan Walker. I do the math. You know, I’m tracing in the book the passage of the single shipping container from a factory in China to a warehouse in Mississippi.

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