The Motley Fool

MARCH 6, 2024

In a blog post released early last year, Microsoft described just a few of the capabilities of its 365 Copilot: "Copilot jump-starts your creativity in Word, analyzes data in Excel, designs presentations in PowerPoint, triages your Outlook inbox, summarizes meetings in Teams -- whether you attended or not -- and so much more."

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2013

I follow other investors on Twitter, Quora, and respond to blog posts--I've even been able to strengthen my ties to other investors through Instagram. Not every angel investor has time to keep up with a regular blog--but there are vast amounts of uptapped startup and operational wisdom locked up in angel groups that isn't getting out.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2023

From here, Coinbase gets an equity stake in Circle. How big the stake is or what it cost, Coinbase's blog post didn't say. According to a report from CoinDesk citing people familiar with the matter, Coinbase didn't pay Circle anything for the stake. But on Aug. Coinbase still brings something to the table, however.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 17, 2024

If you have a technical co-founder or at least someone who can build on the founding team—that’s more table stakes. The prior failures in those areas are going to require a lot of all the other positive attributes for an investor to overcome the perception that the whole sector is to be avoided.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Chris Dixon called that “come for the tools, stay for the network” in this blog post. Then it was Ethereum and you’d stake it. We are seeing a different go-to-market action in web3. Most consumers start with the token/asset and go from there. Initially, it was Bitcoin and you’d store it at Coinbase.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Billions of Dollars at Stake in a Puzzling Holiday Shopping Season : It promises to be unpredictable, with retailers and consumers still figuring out how much will be spent and on what kinds of goods. ( The Political Economy Blog ). Businessweek ). New York Times ). • But climate inaction is making it more likely. ( New Yorker ).

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Pension Pulse

MAY 21, 2024

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports that OMERS is writing off its take in troubled British utility Thames Water: The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) has written off its entire investment in troubled British utility Thames Water, walking away from a stake once valued at well over $1-billion.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 30, 2021

I wrote a short post on the USV blog announcing that we had invested in Cryptokitties , but in truth, we invested in much more. Flow is a proof of stake blockchain that was designed from the ground up for consumer experiences that require scale and performance and more. We are only seeing the entire vision now.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

No financial details were provided however, I remind my readers that in June 2023, CDPQ partnered with Australia's Clean Energy Finance Corporation to acquire minority stake in Gunn Agri Partners, and create AUD $200m sustainable agriculture platform (see my comment here ). This is how they're going to reach it.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 31, 2024

His stake was estimated to be worth $600 million after Reddit's post-IPO pop. In a blog post in 2014, Altman argued that Uber was undervalued because it often presents a more affordable alternative to car ownership. Reddit Probably the best known of Altman's investments is Reddit (NYSE: RDDT). Altman knows Reddit well.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Those investors maintained a controlling stake in Opera after its IPO, and the company was hit with allegations of installing Chinese spyware in its browsers earlier this year. Opera refuted those claims in a lengthy blog post, but it could eventually become another casualty in the escalating tech war between the U.S. and China.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

More than shocking” Former analyst at the Caisse and author of the Pension Pulse blog on pension plans, Leo Kolivakis said he was stunned by the content of the SEC complaint. It’s more than shocking,” he wrote on his blog. The statement did not mention any thanks for his services or the reasons for his ejection.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 23, 2011

They've been learning from blogs, twitter, mailing lists, and by discovering people at events who are willing to grab coffee and do a data dump to each other of things they've learned. Investors do more to tout and grow their own ecosystem than any other player--because of their direct and long term financial stake.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 5, 2015

In 2010, Foursquare hit it big in Austin not long after their funding, which I accidently kicked off with a blog post. First, if it wasn''t clear before, free wifi has become table stakes. That''s how I was able to get into the Hatching Twitter book, where, for some reason, Nick Bilton refers to me as short. I''m 5''11'''', thank you.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 29, 2024

Now, from the little I've read up on them, Pine Gate Renewables is a great company that even has a very informative blog on its websites which I found particularly interesting. We expect this investment will deliver great value to our members, the healthcare workers of Ontario.”

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Steve Sanduski

JULY 11, 2023

In a Nutshell: Rather than making decisions by gut feel or pure instinct, Cheryl presents a well-researched framework that helps you make better decisions when the stakes are high. The post Cheryl Strauss Einhorn on Making Complex, High-Stakes Decisions Using the AREA Method and Problem Solver Profiles appeared first on Steve Sanduski.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 10, 2023

Over the past two decades, few industries have changed as quickly as media, from blogging to the rush in social media and subscription, everything. You just capture so much of that energy in the moment, I think people sometimes they miss how revolutionary blogging was at the time. How did that change the world of blogs?

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Diamond Consultants

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The Cons: A transaction of this sort requires an advisor to sell the entirety of their business, meaning they lose operating leverage (their incentive to grow is limited because they dont maintain an equity stake in their own business). Lastly, the ongoing payout post-transaction is typically quite low for the selling advisor.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In 2021, Australias Telstra sold a 49% stake in its towers for A$2.1b (NZ$2.3b). Adwitiya Srivastava of Reuters also reports Spark New Zealand to sell stake in mobile towers business to Canada's CDPQ for $182 million: Spark New Zealand will sell its remaining 17% stake in mobile towers firm Connexa for NZ$314 million ($181.77

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Indigo Marketing Agency

JUNE 16, 2021

We do all the heavy lifting ourselves by creating a 100% custom webinar that builds trust with your audience, converts more prospects, and gives them a low-stakes way to get to know you. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at our 9-step process: 1.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 28, 2024

Then, if I recall correctly this stake, he started building the stake in the back half of 2023. Now, so maybe he saw the valuation and Apple and the size of his stake incited, determined that position was worth. There was a great blog post this week from Liz Reid, the head of Google search.

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Integrity Financial Planning

DECEMBER 18, 2023

You probably don’t want to find yourself staking your lifetime savings based on advice that has nothing to do with your financial stability and unique situation. Many stock pickers out there claim to have the golden portfolio that will help you amass a fortune. However, reality is often different.

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Integrity Financial Planning

AUGUST 16, 2023

1] They allow people to invest in a trust that then purchases a direct ownership stake in real estate properties. At the most basic level, a real estate investment trust is a company that owns, operates, or finances income-generating real estate. [1]

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

percent stake in 1411 Broadway, which it acquired in 2012 for more than $360 million. When the company acquired the building in 2013 (it paid $850 million for a majority stake, then bought the remaining interest in 2016 for $913 million), it financed it with a $1 billion CMBS loan based on an appraised value of $2 billion. billion.

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Integrity Financial Planning

JULY 31, 2023

10] Because the employer doesn’t guarantee an amount to the employee on retirement, they have no stake in whether the account does well, even if they are contributing to the account. They are funded mostly by the employee (though the employer may also make contributions). [8]

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Integrity Financial Planning

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

They categorized Swag.com with other promotional product companies, offering Parker a low single-digit multiple of EBITDA for a stake in his business. Despite Parker’s efforts to position the company as more than a middleman, investors weren’t convinced.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

This is a really long drought, and at some point, you got to stop and ask, is this steady stake? I think we're in a world where we're so caught up reading about what other people do in books and blog posts. Value investing has not won in this century. Bill Mann: We are the Chicago Cubs of investors. What books should I read next?

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Mr. Money Mustache

APRIL 7, 2023

The stakes just couldn’t be higher. In other words, the changes are so obvious, and the amount of win/win synergy so great, that every step we take towards making our cities better, and every car trip we eliminate, will absolutely explode our personal and national wealth upwards for generations to come. Are you in?

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Pension Pulse

MAY 22, 2024

billion in NetCo, Italy's largest fixed telecoms network; and the sale of its stake in the Hohe See and Albatros wind farms off the shores of Germany for $374 million in proceeds. Invested C$534 million in KPN, bringing our ownership stake to 2.9%. Japan, increasing our ownership stake to 3%. stake in Pushpay Holdings Ltd.,

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

David Hollerith of Yahoo Finance reports Amazon, Alphabet, and Nvidia attract new interest from Wall Street's biggest investors: Some of Wall Street’s biggest investors made new bets on technology giants in the fourth quarter, loading up on stakes in Amazon ( AMZN ), Alphabet ( GOOG , GOOGL ), Alibaba ( BABA ), and Nvidia ( NVDA ).

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Lastly, on this second annual Pension Awareness Day, I appreciate all of you who take the time to donate to this blog and support my efforts, it's greatly appreciated (top left-hand side under my picture). Below, an older interview with OMERS' CEO Blake Hutcheson which I really like, Listen to this exchange with Goldy Hyder, it's excellent.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 15, 2020

Work is difficulty and drama, a high-stakes game in which our identity, our self-esteem, and our ability to provide are mixed inside us in volatile, sometimes explosive ways…Work is where we can make ourselves; work is where we can break ourselves. The Crucible of Leadership. That’s often the biggest obstacle to becoming your self.

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Diamond Consultants

JUNE 1, 2023

Prolific RIA acquirer CI Financial recently monetized a stake in their business at a $5B valuation. Here are 3 valuation scenarios to address that curiosity. Focus Financial Partners, the largest investor in the independent space, is being taken private at a $7B valuation. Those are some eye-popping numbers.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

There I discovered that you blogged extensively, I would say, especially 2009-2015. Elizabeth, is that still true, and what are your reflections on your blogging days? I mean, I get that you were starting somewhere after blogging, but you didn't design games as a kid, it sounds like? Which is a very high-stakes game tournament.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2023

per cent of CPP’s overall portfolio is in China, said the fund uses several tools to carefully evaluate its investments and avoids stakes in “companies involved in wrongdoings, especially violations of human rights.” “The stake in Commerzbank, one of the largest banks in Germany serving retail and small business customers.

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Diamond Consultants

JUNE 14, 2023

Moving beyond “table stakes” factors, here are 8 critical yet often overlooked considerations for evaluating potential firms—as well as your own. But for the purposes of this article, we are going to consider them table stakes. There are many reasons why an advisor might prefer one firm over another.

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Diamond Consultants

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Minority stakes. Selling a minority stake to a strategic capital partner while retaining full control of a practice has become one of the more popular transactions in the independent landscape. Majority stakes while retaining some equity. These loans typically range from 10% to 50% of trailing 12 months’ revenue.

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