• Essential investing math
• Rule of 72
• Geometric sequences
• Mental models on growth, compounding, deferred taxes
• Why is math essential?
Do you know how good an investor you are?
Mar 21, 2021 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
Beth Kindig provides excellent insights on how to pick a great tech growth stock at #ftw2021.
@Beth_Kindig has published over 900 articles in the last 8 years exclusively on technology and startups.
Her ideas are super sharp, clear, and straight to the point.
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The technology analyst shares her perspectives on the tech industry and analyzing a company:
• Lead with product
• Microtrends
• New markets
• Technology stack/IP (moats)
• Pure play
• Financials last
Mar 21, 2021 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Growth investor Richard Chu (@richard_chu97) goes into a digital health deep-dive at #FTW2021.
Find out more about:
• Healthcare disruption
• Why now is the right time for healthcare?
• Newtopia Inc company perspective
• The process of identifying winners.
Why healthcare is ripe to be disrupted?
How to build long-term orientation in the stock market?
@borrowed_ideas shares his journey & learnings at #ftw2021#FintwitSummit
Your competitive advantages
How to eliminate biases
Become a capital allocator
Compounding returns
Respect the rules
10x in 10 years
Avoid the risks
Regardless of the disadvantages, you can focus on the other side of the coin 🪙:
• No redemption request
• No fees
• You can afford to underperform
• You can avoid quarterly vagaries
• You can think of owning a piece of business
Ram shares insight about:
• General investing principles
• Investment & research approach
• Role models to follow
• Portfolio management
• The book, blogs & podcast recommendations
• Big picture advice for newcomers
Here are the principles that Ram follows:
1. Think long term 2. Intrinsic value of blood business will go up over time 3. Market volatility exists 4. There are different players with different goals 5. Use liquidity to your advantage
Mar 20, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
An investment veteran with 25+ years of experience shares key investment strategies today at #ftw2021.
Conviction = numbers + narrative.
You need to have a way to track the different elements that are essential to the company:
1. Performance 2. Execution (customize the sheet with what management says is important for the company) 3. Cash flow (revenue, gross margins, cash flow, and profits).
$ZS $ROKU $PTON
Mar 20, 2021 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
How to invest in disruptive innovation?
Learn from investment veteran Simon Erickson the Founder & CEO of @7innovator at #ftw2021
He is focused on identifying disruptive innovation and finding developing trends before others may even be aware of them.
Simon shares 5 principles to spot disruption:
1. Theory of resource dependency 2. Small markets don't solve growth needs 3. Markets that don't exist can't be analyzed 4. Capabilities define disabilities 5. Technology supply vs. market demand
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Mar 20, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
When you're looking at individual stocks, @BrianFeroldi recommends looking at several elements:
#ftw2021#fintwitsummit
If you had invested $1000 in $AAPL in 2008, today you would have worth >$20477.
Mar 19, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
WHAT DRIVES US?
The Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose is a @DanielPink's framework on motivation.
Rather than using rewards and punishments, or the carrot and stick approach that ultimately doesn’t help motivate people for the daily work, he suggests something more effective.
🔽🔽🔽 1/ Autonomy -Being in control and able to guide both what we do and how we do it.
$TEAM Atlassian, allowed their programmers to have a complete day of freedom, they came up with several new product ideas and dozens of creative solutions to existing problems.
Mar 15, 2021 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Here are the 5 Chrome extensions to boost effectiveness.
I'm having all of them installed on my Macbook and iMac.
They make my life easier, more productive, and less distracting.
Here is why ⬇️ 1/ @adblockplus stops ads, improves browser speed, and protects you online.
Publications need to earn some money, and they do through ads, however many times they are very aggressive.
The guys at ABP are excellent when it comes to giving advertising a break.
Mar 11, 2021 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
State of the Cloud 2021
If you're interested in cloud-based businesses, the @BessemerVP report is a must-read.
Here are some takeaways.
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Top 5 public cloud companies comprise of $1T+ of market cap
$ZM
$SHOP
$CRM
$ADBE
$PYPL