Resources
Blog #38: How I Picked A SAAS STOCK?
Articles
- SAAS MARKET OVERVIEW
- SAAS Global Market Report
- How Salesforce became Silicon Valley’s best late-stage tech investor
Research & Analytics
Blog #32: Should You Invest In High Yield Dividend ETF’s?
Articles
- 136 Dividend ETFs Ranked For 2021
- 7 Electric Vehicle ETFs to Buy
- 5 Electric Vehicle ETFs Getting a Big Biden Boost
- A Look At 6 ETFs That Cover The Electric Vehicles Trend
- MOON: Innovation Index ETF With Subpar Strategy, Best To Avoid
Free Tools To Track and Analyze Stocks, ETFs, and Mutual Funds
Blog #26: Why Investors Say No To Your Startup?
Articles
- SAFE Investing Documents, Thomson Reuters
- Why SAFE notes are not safe for entrepreneurs, TechCrunch
- Be Safe—5 Things You Need to Know About SAFE Securities and Crowdfunding, FINRA
- The meeting that showed me the truth about VCs, TechCrunch
- VC recorded lower IRR than several other asset classes from 1999-2017, SSTI.Org
“Over that 18-year timespan, several other asset classes – such as private equity (10.5 percent), debt financing (10.1 percent), fund-of-funds (8.1 percent) and several stock market indices – significantly outperformed the VC industry’s equal-weighted IRR.” SSTI.Org
- The Pervasive, Head-Scratching, Risk-Exploding Problem With Venture Capital, Institutional Investor
“The golden rule for investors into the venture asset class must therefore be: Build a portfolio of 500 startups, with 100 companies being the absolute minimum.”
“the top quartile of VC funds have an average annual return ranging from 15% to 27% over the past 10 years, compared to an average of 9.9% S&P 500 return per year for each of those ten years (See the table on Page 13 of the report).”
- Venture Capital: Worth Venturing Into?, Enterprising Investor, CFA Institute
Blog #24: Is AirBNB the Hottest And Nicest IPO of 2020?
Articles
- AirBNBaller, No Mercy, No Malice, by Professor Scott Galloway
- 28 Groundbreaking Yelp Statistics to Make 2020 Count
Website Resources
- AirBNB SEC S1 Filing as on Nov 16 2020
- Airbnb’s New Endowment Fund Seeks to Give Hosts a Piece of the IPO Action
- Marriot Financials
- AirBNB Profile: CrunchBase
- Yelp Fast Facts
AIRBNB SEC S1
Some Interesting Charts and Graphs.
Monthly Nights and Experiences Booked Trends
Monthly Gross Booking Value Trends
Adjusted EBITDA
Blog #23: Which Cloud Computing Stock To Buy
Articles
- Research and Markets: Cloud Computing Industry Growth
- Cision PR Newswire: Infrastructure As A Service Market Growth
- ZDNET: What is Cloud Computing?
- SiliconAngle: Databricks Plotting The Next Big Software IPO
Website Resources
- Financial Statements:
- Golden.com – a startup that is building a knowledge database. It looks like wikipedia but apparently can do a lot more.
- MacroTrends: Google GCP Margin
- Gartner Magic Quadrants
- Magic Quadrant for Data Management Solutions
- Magic Quadrant for Analaytics and Business Intelligence
- Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service
- Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms
- Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools
- Magic Quadrant For Unified Endpoint Management
Blog #22: The Name’s Bond, Fixed Income That Is
Articles
- The Ultimate Guide to Bonds
- 9 of the Best Bond ETFs to Buy Now
- Apple Capitalizes On Plunge In Yields, Issues Cheapest Bonds In Years
- Apple Is Paying 2.6% to Borrow for 40 Years in a Record Week for Bonds
Books
Podcasts
Website Resources
- iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF : Blackrock site for their Bonds
- Bondsupermarket : Good site to research all Bonds
- Investopedia : Great resource for any financial term or concept.
- YCharts : Good resource for Stocks and Bond Research, but nay need a subscription for certain information.
- ETFdb : Good resource for all ETF research, both stocks as well as Bond ETFs.
- China Evergrand Group, Bond Fact Sheet
Blog #19: Death And Taxes
Articles & Resources on Tax Planning
- Substantial Presence Test
- Countries with a Double Tax Treaty with the USA Status as of 30 June 2020
- Worldwide Personal Tax and Immigration Guide 2019–20
- U.S. estate planning for nonresident aliens from treaty countries – a comparison of Germany, Austria, France and the United Kingdom
- About Form 1040-NR, U.S. Nonresident Alien Income Tax Return
Blog #15: 10 Questions To Ask Your Broker – Part 1
Articles
- Apparent suicide by 20-year-old Robinhood trader who saw a negative $730,000 balance prompts app to make changes – Must read and share with all your friends and family, especially if you have young men or women who are getting into trading stocks because they think its cool or a quick way to get rich.
- The lockdown death of a 20-year-old day trader | Free to read – It explains how Alex Kearns actually had a $16,000 positive balance rather than the ($730,000) negative balance he though he owed.
Blog #10: What I Wish I Could Have Told My Younger Self
If you would like to learn more about how to support women’s health issues, may I suggest:
Watch/Support:
- The Pad Project on YouTube 7.13 Minutes
- Period. End of Sentence a Netflix documentary on how women are not only helping with health issues, but also creating a sustainable income stream working in this project. 26 Minutes
Read/Engage:
- Can ‘period leave’ ever work?
- Menstrual leave: a workplace reform to finally banish the period taboo?
- Employer’s paid period leave policy in Australia stirs world debate
Buy/Invest In:
- Aisle : run by fearless women who challenged the status quo. Makes period panties.
- 10 Women Run Companies that are successfully creating products for women