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Saying Yes To Startup Dreams
A friend called up with a new idea. It will probably only cost a bit of time and effort – and who knows where it will go? I’m honored to be included. New ideas are what we need, and they … Continue reading
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Tagged consulting, Dream. Invest. Live., entrepreneur, GERN, HCLE, investing, Liza Loop, LTBH, MVIS, myHarto, personal finance, social media, stocks, vlogbrothers, vsauce, YouTube
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Semi Annual Exercise Mid 2014
An encouraging characteristic of good habits, rituals, and regular exercises is that their descriptions and rationales don’t change. Welcome to my semi-annual review of my stocks, and an introduction that hasn’t changed much so copy and paste helps me balance … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, consultant, consulting, credit card, debt, Dream. Invest. Live., economy, entrepreneur, frugality, GERN, Geron, GIG, GigOptix, health care, investing, Investor Village, LTBH, markets, Microvision, Motley Fool, MVIS, non-profit, personal finance, Peter Lynch, Real Goods Solar, Retirement, RGSE, RSOL, Silicon Investor, speaker, stocks, wealth
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But Not Yet
As I begin typing, we are less than eight hours away from the Summer Solstice, the beginning of summer (north of the Equator), the farthest the planet gets away from the Sun, and maybe the beginning of much better times. … Continue reading
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Tagged bitcoin, community, consulting, cryptocurrency, debt, entrepreneur, frugality, housing, Intelligent Optimist, investing, Microvision, mortgage, MVIS, personal finance, photos, seed funding, stocks, writing, yes magazine
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Social Media Really
Why? Why Like, Follow, Plus, Connect, or Subscribe to someone? Why not? It’s free, isn’t it? It’s worthless, isn’t it? Skip the pleas from Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, and WordPress and Blogger. They aren’t free, really. They aren’t worthless, … Continue reading
Trends Shifting Stalwarts
Conventional wisdom held that investing in the stalwarts, the old blue chips, was the way to safely invest. Dull but successful. The market continues to hit new highs, mostly through the action of the biggest companies, that are more a … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, banking, bitcoin, climate change, cryptocurrencies, debt, decentralized, futurist, GERN, GIG, housing, investing, millennials, mortgage, MVIS, off the grid, off-grid, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer lending, personal finance, Retirement, RGSE, singularity, stocks, tiny house, Tiny Houses, urbanization
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Corporations Meet Owners MVIS 2014
People crave stories, poems, plays on words. Analysts crave data. Investors deal in both. Investors in startups have so little data to pick from that investing becomes speculating. When words are the main source of information, it is best to … Continue reading
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Tagged Individual investor, investing, Investor Village, LTBH, Microvision, Motley Fool, MVIS, personal finance, stocks, wealth
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Society Accidentally Diversifies
Us versus Them. That’s a familiar theme; yet we know there are grey areas between the two. Finance is the same. There are “The Big Institutions” and “the rest of Us.” Alternative economies try to make clear distinctions, but if … Continue reading
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Tagged AirBnB, banks, BerkShares, bitcoin, cryptocurrency, economy, finance, investing, Kiva, LendingClub, Lyft, MazaCoin, microloans, occupy, peer lending, peer-to-peer, personal finance, sharing economy, stocks, Wall Street
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Chromebook Disruption
Chromebooks are the answer, but don’t ask too many questions. Four months ago I bought a Chromebook (Unwrapping My Chromebook). Despite the inevitable complaints I’m about to list, I’m convinced that Chromebooks are going to usurp the laptop the way … Continue reading
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Tagged AAPL, Apple, Chromebook, Google+, investing, laptop, Microsoft, MSFT, PC, personal finance, Simple Living, stocks
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Adaptation And AAM2014
Have you ever spent four full days thinking about museums? Most people think about museums for a few hours every year, yet museum folks necessarily think about them every day. Me, I think about them about three or four hours … Continue reading
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Tagged AAM, AAM2014, community, Dream. Invest. Live., Financial Integrity, HCLE, housing, investing, jobs, mortgage, museums, New Road Map, NRM, personal finance, real estate, Seattle, sharing economy, stocks, Twitter, virtual museum
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MVIS Before The 2014 ASM
Welcome to the world of investing in small companies. MicroVision’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders approaches yet again. That’s a good sign. That means they hadn’t gone out of business in the meantime. Seriously, the way I describe MicroVision is that … Continue reading
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Tagged ASM, eyewear, Google Glass, investing, Investor Village, LMRA, LTBH, Microvision, MVIS, personal finance, Showwx, stocks, writing
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