Let me present 3 steps to making an investment decision: 1. Make an observation 2. Determine who will profit based on (1) 3. Determine how YOU can profit based on (2) Let's see an example. Observation: The MIT Media Lab has spawned a non-profit organization "One Laptop Per Child"...

Frank, Jason and I were having dinner this past Saturday and we were discussing future markets. Jason brought up Biotech and was talking about some of the possibilities for future advances, and how they may affect the industry. Now, Biotech is something I know very little about --- in fact, I know...

What follows is a question posed to us after Jason's article last week. As well as my response to that question. I hope to have answered the reader's questions completely, and I hope that my response proves valuable as well. I've left the response as is, and I'll be covering different sorts of...

We'll be on vacation the rest of the week for Thanksgiving, so there will be no posts Thursday or Friday. Stop by next Tuesday for our next article. Happy Thanksgiving!

Today Cisco announced that it would be purchasing Scientific Atlanta, for close to 7 Billion dollars. Which after taking Scientific Atalanta's cash into account will mean the actual cost is closer to 5.3 Billion. Most of the sources are speculating that this is the expression of Cisco's desire to...

To be successful in this life, either personally, financially or otherwise, you have to have goals. It’s not just something our parents and counselors have been babbling about our whole lives; it’s a fact. Even those who aspire to be successfully lazy must set a goal to be adequately lazy each and...

In the last 6 months, I've gone through the process of acquiring a car twice. In July my fiance and I purchase a new Volkswagen Jetta, and just this past Monday we leased a Subaru Impreza. Having gone through both the process of leasing and buying a car, I feel comfortable commenting on both, and...

One of my favorite "Savings Speeches" comes in David Bach's book Automatic Millionaire. David goes on to explain in detail how to save and invest your money, but only after giving a very convincing argument for why you would want to. I'm going to share with you the thought process I went through as...

On Tuesday Chris posted about "Digital Media Convergence", and picked Microsoft as one of the main benefactors/facilitators of just such a shift. A reader responded to the post with some excellent comments, and a due amount of concern, as to why one should be wary of investing in Microsoft. I would...

On Tuesday, Chris tried to explain the "media convergence" that is becoming more of a reality everyday, a daunting task to say the least. Chris described the scenario made possible now by Apple's video iPod: downloading a television show through your computer at work (over lunch) to watch on your...