A very critical post on Tripadvisor
John Kingham (UK Valueinvestor) doesn’t like British Telecom
Morgan Housel is on a roll and is writing one great piece after another: Useful hacks
So true: Life is more than compounding money
Why Microsft paid so much for GitHub
Some pitches from Whitney Tilson’s short selling conference
Paid online marketing is addictive but often not creating any real value
A fantastic post from 25q on customer acquisition & direct distribution models
Prof. Damodaran on how to reflect user economics in valuation
Is the next “AI winter” coming ?
Notes from the London Value Invetsing conference
A “short attack” on David EInhorn’s Greenlight Re
Mary Meeker on the “state of the internet”
“When the wolves bite” is the story about Herbalife and the fight between Bill Ackman, the Activist Hedge Fund manager who publicly shorted the company and Acitivist legend Carl Icahn who became a large shareholder mainly in order to annoy Bill Ackman.
A critical view on German Software “Unicorn” RIB Software
Some lessons learned from a life on Wall Street
A short thesis on Samsonite Intl. from Blue Orca
Another attempt to find out what actually happened at GE
Prof. Damodaran explains why Walmart paid 12 bn USD for Flipkart
Highly recommended: The Broyhill Bookclub 2017
An interesting write up on Hongkong based company Dream International
How and why David Einhorn is doing so badly these days
The retail industry tries to fight back with new concepts
Part of the pension cost for US companies will be booked “below the line” starting in 2018
Under Armour doesn’t look like a “buy” right now
Deep thoughts on Probabilistic Thinking by Farnam Stree blog
Wexboy with a portfolio update (Record Plc)
How to handle investment mistakes
The spring issue 2018 of Graham & Doddsville is out
A good overview on competition for self driving cars from Bloomberg
British stocks look cheap these days, one example is Centrica
Some updates on Spin-off situations
Great Longread on the dominating position of the combined Essilor/Luxottica
“Big Beer” needs to reinvent itself
Want to get into start-up Financing ? Here is a good guide for seed stage investments
Argentina has raised interest rates to 40%
Venture funds are getting bigger and fee levels are falling
24 rules to succeed in life by Richard Jenrette (The “j” from DLJ)
John Huber thinks large Tech companies are attarctive right now (Tencnet)
However published free cash flows for Big Tech should be taken with a few grains of salt
Elliott’s presentation on how to “accelerate Hyundai”
Enron’s Ex CFO is now offering anti-fraud training
US packaged food companies are struggling
Prof. Damodaran on Amazon
Deep thoughts on Cryptocurrencies and the new Basecoin
Excellent post on how to look at (and evaluate) Startups at the seed stage
The UK Value Investor with an in-depth look at Morrisons
Some details about WeWork and the Softbank Vision fund
Interesting thoughts on how to “fix” the Price-to-Book Ratio
Deep thoughts about the recent strategy change at Zillow
Prof. Damodaran has a look at Google. And Google has screwed up messaging again.
A more pesimistic view on the future of tech stocks
Forager on the disadvantage of size in fund management and their thesis on Auto Trader (UK)
What Hugh Hendry is doing these days after closing his Hedge Fund
Long Term Value Blog with a portfolio update
The Global Stock Picking blog likes Rezidor Hotel Group
Deep thoughts from (and about) the founder of Constellation Software
Forager on the potential long term downsides of large moats
Ben from Wertart with a deep dive into Sarine Technologies
At USG, Buffett goes somehow activist by teaming up with German Knauf against the Board
Express Scripts looks like a potentially interesting Special Situation
Red Corner blog is back with a write-up on CVR Partners
Prof. Damodaran updates his Facebook valuation
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