What is meant by "Founder diversification"?
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It's what happens when a company has an IPO.  They get founder diversification in the sense that many people control the company now instead of just a few.
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Oh! That a good question. If anything to go by, small businesses want to take the short-term opportunities. They can do anything to make money first, and they will restructure their organizations then (I mean reengineering management). I tried to answer the question according to the framwork issued by McKinsey called 7S's: Strategy, Style, Structure, System, Shared Value, Skills, and Staff. They will confront with much challenges when their businesses go to bigger. So they must find out the way to retain.
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The greatest and rarest resource on earth.  The ability to invest all your money and time on uninsured future profits.  Meaning just because you start a business, doesn't mean you are guaranteed anything.  An owner has to have so many talents it is rare to see a start up business thrive over the long run.  \n\nFirst they need an idea or nitch in an existing market.\n\nSecond they have to raise capital to buy a building and employees and office supplies and ...\n\nThird they need the ability to do every job required in the business or the ability to find qualified people to fill the roles.\n\nFinally they need the forethought to expand or contract their business to maximize profits. \n\nWithout all these and more their business will fail.
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I would look at the ETFs that are proposed by Barclays through www.ishares.com. Basically these are index trackers. So when you buy one of those you buy a "diversified" set of stocks. Diversification is a "free gift from God" as it leads to extra return for the same amount of risk. Just use these ETFs as bricks to build your portolio.
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Entrepreneur  \n\nthe owner or manager of a business who by risk, initiative, and innovation attempts to make a profit.
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they are in the process of diversifying it.  they need to because the growth of what they are currently doing will eventually slow, which will crush their share price.
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Eb(5) Immigrant Investors\nIndividual invests $500,000 in a high unemployment area (150% of national unemployment rate) or $1,000,000 elsewhere and hires 10 persons within 2 years, or invests in a Regional Center and may use job multiplier studies instead of direct employment. Because this category has been controversial INS processing times are slow and unpredictable.
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Joe got it right in his second paragraph.  You can think of risk versus # of assets (assuming they're different from a risk-reward standpoint, exhibit uncorrelated returns, etc) and that as you diversify, you're travelling along an asymptotic curve that approaches systematic risk that cannot be diversified away regardless of the # of assets.\n\nUnsystematic risk refers to risk that can be diversified away.
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I don't think you are adequately diversified.  Most advisers will recommend you have more than 3 stocks.  Stocks are very hard to predict.  When you bought NT, you didn't expect it to drop 75%, but it did.  You have to consider the possibility that two of your stocks could nosedive, just like NT did.  Sometimes a stock will crash and never come back.  I would recommend at least 10 stocks, in a variety of industries.\n\nIn addition, while many mutual funds charge too much, Vanguard.com has some low expense, no-load funds that don't charge much.  You might consider putting half you money in a mutual fund for diversity, and half in stocks you like.\n\nI also disagree with your statement "banks always make money."  There have been many banks that have failed over the years.  Savings and loan companies, which are similar to banks, had a very rough time a few years back, and many failed.  Not that I expect TD.TO to fail, but you never know.\n\nI wish you the best of luck.
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"Vested" means ownership, therefore, "unvested" refers to the shares held in his name, but not owned by him. Most companies have a vesting schedule - sometimes a graded scale (e.g., % increases over 5-7 years) or sometimes a cliff (eg, 0% vested until 5 years, then 100% vested).
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My understaning is that this term refers to 3 groups of people:\n\n1) The stakeholders (investors)\n2) The actuators (those involved in advising, brokering and secureing the transactions.)\n3) The receiving (the companies, funds etc; you are investing in)
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He is related to the Founders.  It is explained in the Series.  It does make for an interesting nature vs nurture debate.
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On the springboard of life, can't we invest our thoughts on a higher plane without the same stock answers. Can we not form a stronger bond without taking the plunge? I t doesn't take much to make the stock market nervous (notice how we refer to it as an organic entity?). I can remember analysts informing us that good news (better than forcasted) spooked the market. I can't recall the details, but the upshot was that the news, while being optimistic, could lead to inflation or deflation or recession, or who knows. Trying to read the tea leaves of the stock market will drive us all crazy.  Invest in companies, not stocks. Companies that have high growth yields. Anything else is like playing with Tarot cards.
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You might not be diversify.\nYou need to know what you are doing.\nYou can make or lose more money.\nYou need to have more money to start.\nIt could cost more or less depend on how you are trading.
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Depends on the context in which you use it...\n\nGenerally it means:\n\nAn amount or level needed for a specific result or new action to occur:\n\nIn investing it means:\n\nThe size at which a business or market undergoes a fundamental change in regard to operations. An example of such a change is a company's achievement of increasing returns to scale. \n\nIn Physics\n\nThe smallest mass of a fissionable material that will sustain a nuclear chain reaction at a constant level. \n\nor\n\nThe amount of matter needed to generate sufficient gravitational force to halt the current expansion of the universe.
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Its a dinosaur and no longer a leader. When profit growth slows, the stock price stops rising. same as Dell and Microsoft and Cisco and Sun.
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An entrepreneur is someone who owns his own business and entrepreneurship is the defenition of what an entrepreneur is \n\nmore details go to dictionary.com