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Avoid the Unforced Investment Errors Even Billionaires Make

The Big Picture

An instructive war story : During the mid-1990s, a grad school buddy took a senior job at a tech startup that came with lots of stock. My advice was not based on fear of a bubble or the (over)valuation of Yahoo; rather, I suggested employing a regret minimization framework.2 In late 1996, they were bought by Yahoo!

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Wednesday links: an awesome product

Abnormal Returns

amycastor.com) Companies It's hard to wrap your head around the numbers with Nvidia's ($NVDA) new chips. 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.

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10 Friday AM Reads

The Big Picture

Finally, it would be dangerous to extrapolate the post-1990 outperformance of US equities, as it mainly reflects rising relative valuations. This company is betting yes : A growing number of employers around the country have decided to build their own housing for workers, mostly for them to rent but sometimes to buy.

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The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech (November 2023)

Nerd's Eye View

This month's edition kicks off with the news that Practice Intel has launched a new "growth platform" centered around quantifying the quality of an advisor's client relationships with an all-in "Relationship Quality Index" (RQI) – which while potentially valuable in helping advisors understand and improve their client experience (and subsequently (..)

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Monday links: sudden reversals

Abnormal Returns

axios.com) Job number one for CEOs is capital allocation. capitalgains.thediff.co) Startups How increased regulatory risk is affecting startup valuations. theinformation.com) What makes for a great startup name. (wsj.com) Taxes on share buybacks are a speed bump.

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ATM: Aswath Damodaran on the LifeCycles of Companies

The Big Picture

Full transcript below. ~~~ About this week’s guest: Professor Aswath Damodaran of NYU Stern School of Business is known as the Dean of Valuation. He has written numerous books on valuation and finance. A very young, a startup is like a baby, needs constant care and attention and capital. Forget about year five, year ten.

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Tax Planning for Startup Founders and Employees

Harness Wealth

Many of the insights below are ones that are understood well by second or third-time founders or startup veterans, who learned about these specific tax provisions from experience and are ready to implement them when they start their subsequent ventures. More on this below. FMV per share at time of vesting $10.00 $10.00