GUEST: During the late ’90s, Silicon Valley venture capitalists and New York City investment bankers used phrases such as “monetizing eyeballs,” “stickiness,” and “B2C” to justify the ridiculous valuations of Internet companies. They claimed conventional methods were inapplicable in valuing the dot-com companies — which had no revenue — because we were entering an entirely […]
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Bitcoin speculators are ‘getting burned’ and companies that recently pivoted to blockchain are going down with them
Markets Insider Bitcoin is in its worst weekly sell-off since 2013. The plunge is dragging companies in the cryptocurrency space, including some that recently changed their core businesses. Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies are tumbling on Friday along with the shares of several companies in the space. Some of these companies recently announced they […]
Silicon speculators
Nail-biting decisions EXCHANGE-TRADED funds (ETFs) were supposed to make investing easy. Instead of spending hours researching individual stocks and bonds or paying an expert fund manager, investors could simply buy a few ETFs. But now there are too many to choose from. BlackRock offers 346 in America alone. Some investors need help allocating their money […]
Porsche Plans Crackdown on GT-Car Speculators and Flippers
– Like many of the world’s most desirable cars, Porsche’s GT models attract the interest of buyers who are more keen to buy them as investments than for driving pleasure. But now the automaker says it is planning to crack down on those who have been betting on the rising value of some of its rarer GT […]
