Professional Investing

The early years of venture capital were a far cry from today’s very public dealings. Alan Patricof, one of the pioneers of the venture arena, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the past 50 years of the industry. From buying stock in Apple when its market valuation was only $60 million to founding New York Magazine to investing in AOL, Audible, and more recently, Axios, his discerning approach to finding companies is almost peerless.

The Harder You Work, The Luckier You Get offers a view inside Joe Ricketts’s mind, giving listeners a visceral understanding of how entrepreneurs think and act differently from the rest of us - how they see the horizon where we just see a spreadsheet. Ricketts also talks honestly about his shortcomings as a manager, the career sacrifices his wife made for his business, the complexity of being a father, and the pain of his mentor’s betrayal and of his brother’s death from of AIDS. Overcoming these and other challenges, he built a company now worth $30 billion.

First published in 1994, The Warren Buffett Way gave investors their first in-depth look at the innovative investment and business strategies behind this living legend's spectacular success. Tracing Warren Buffett's career from the beginning, Hagstrom revealed to listeners exactly how, starting with an initial investment of only $100, Buffett built a business empire worth $19.4 billion.

The best way for beginners to learn how to invest in their future is by harnessing the power of this guide. This guide is more than just theory. It will tell you how to grow your investments into a healthy nest egg for a comfortable retirement.

During 2003, the US economy was described by one economist as "nervous, anxious, and waiting." In December, the Dow had topped 10,000 for the first time in a year and a half, and at year's end the markets were up for the first time since 1999. But in the same year, American troops had moved into Iraq, and corporate boards were cutting CEOs at the slightest signs of trouble. Amidst this turmoil Robert Greifeld, a former tech entrepreneur from outside the Wall Street bubble, became CEO of Nasdaq, a position he would hold for the next 13 years.

Unorthodox success principles from a billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Eli Broad's embrace of "unreasonable thinking" has helped him build two Fortune 500 companies, amass personal billions, and use his wealth to create a new approach to philanthropy. He has helped to fund scientific research institutes, K-12 education reform, and some of the world's greatest contemporary art museums. By contrast, "reasonable" people come up with all the reasons something new and different can't be done, because, after all, no one else has done it that way.

In The Rule, legendary trader and hedge fund pioneer Larry Hite recounts his working-class upbringing in Brooklyn as a dyslexic, partially blind kid who was anything but a model student - and how he went on to found and run Mint Investment Management Company, one of the most profitable and largest quantitative hedge funds in the world.

Forex trading, especially now in the year of 2020, is one of the greatest ways to free yourself from all of life’s trivial stressors and achieve true financial freedom.

As the founder of financial futures and initiator of Globex, the world’s first global electronic trading system, Leo Melamed revolutionized the finance industry. Man of the Futures, his definitive memoir, recounts Melamed’s journey from Holocaust survivor and accidental runner at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), to one of the most prominent leaders in the world of finance.

How to Trade Forex and Currency Markets: A Beginner's Guide to Professional Forex Trading is a practical and easy-to-follow workbook for people interested in forex (foreign exchange) trading. Geared for newcomers to currency trading, the audiobook takes its listeners through the fundamentals of the market and provides easily understood explanations of basic principles and terminology. One feature that distinguishes Zack Zarr's book from other publications on forex trading is that it provides its readers with a novel way of gaining insight into market developments.

All too often hard working people with good jobs are struggling to get by. These are the same people who are forced to take stressful promotions at work and spend a couple hours commuting each day. They come home to the house they think they own, but they are really just a slave to the mortgage company. These “good citizens” are victims of an engineered system to keep them investing in 401Ks, mutual funds, and stocks. This financial system is setup where the insiders are stealing the majority of your returns (and you take all the risk).

If you want a rental property business that runs like a well-oiled machine, then read on. Whether you just purchased your first property or have a sizable portfolio already, this audiobook can give you the keys to stress-free rental property management. First-time landlords, like you, are scaling the profits on their rental property businesses, without huge risks or lots of money to invest, stress-free. This audiobook shows you how you can, too.

Unlock the perfect strategy to build wealth for the future and create a fulfilling life you can live today. Isn’t it time to take control of your investments? In The Busy Professional’s Guide to Passive Real Estate Investing, Vanessa Peters, MD will take you through her journey investing in real estate as a full-time physician. She will show you how passive income can improve your life by creating more time to spend time on the things you enjoy and with the people you love now—not just when you retire.

Wouldn't life be better if you were free of the daily grind - the conventional job and boss - and instead, succeeded or failed purely on the merits of your own investment choices? Free Capital is a window into this world. Based on a series of interviews, it outlines the investing strategies, wisdom, and lifestyles of 12 highly successful private investors. Each of them has accumulated £1 million or more - in most cases, considerably more - mainly from stock market investment.

Are you looking for trading entry and exit ideas? If so, this audiobook is just what you need. This informative guide includes 41 entry ideas, 11 exit ideas, and code in Tradestation format and plain English for each. Each entry and exit has been used in actual strategies by Champion trader Kevin J. Davey. Also included are detailed steps for how best to incorporate these entries and exits in your own trading. Start building strategies today with these fully described entries and exits!

Inside this detailed account of the greatest investing duo who ever lived, you’ll discover everything from their upbringings and family lives to the investing deals that mark their careers. From Warren’s rocky start in life and his rise to financial fame to the key partnerships which formed the duo that shook the world, you’ll learn about their key roles in company wars, the partnerships that let businesses rise to glory, and how their investments shaped the corporate world.

When we left Buffett at the end of volume two, he had reached a fortune of one billion dollars. In this enthralling next installment, we follow Buffett's investment deals over the decade from 1989 to 1998, as Berkshire shares jumped 14-fold from $4,700 to $68,000 and its market cap grew from five billion to one hundred billion. Buffett was as driven as ever to seek out great companies at good prices. By studying the decision-making that went into his investment deals, and the successful and unsuccessful outcomes, we can learn from Buffett and become better investors ourselves.

We are going to build up your trading knowledge from the foundation up. The proper way. The way that has worked for the thousands of members who have listened to this book before you. This will be unlike most books you hear, this book will require you to act, and put your knowledge to the test.

John Paulson, a softly spoken hedge-fund manager who still took the bus to work, seemed unlikely to stake his career on one big gamble. But he did - and The Greatest Trade Ever is the story of how he realised that the sub-prime housing bubble was going to burst, making $15 billion for his fund and more than $4 billion for himself in a single year. It's a tale of folly and wizardry, individual brilliance versus institutional stupidity.

Introducing "Millennial Money Mastery," the definitive guide for the modern, savvy millennial entrepreneur who wants to take control of their finances and forge a path towards financial freedom, stability, and success! Forget the outdated, generic financial advice that populates the self-help market; this fresh, dynamic eBook is specifically tailored to the unique challenges, priorities, and aspirations faced by the next generation of trailblazing business owners. Financial planning is not just for "old money" or corporations anymore! "Millennial Money Mastery" breaks down complex financial...