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The connection between employee training investments and long-term employment is well documented

Vicki TenHaken • Lessons From Century Club Companies: Managing for Long-Term Success

pioneer of modern portfolio theory

Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness

From shareholder primacy to stakeholder capitalism

The corporate form, in my understanding, is about 1000 years old in the West. It developed the “limited liability” concept early on as well as investor-operator partnerships. The joint-stock company shows up in the 1600s and adds pooled ownership. The private corporation in the 1800s. The modern fully-financialized firm, maximizing only shareholder... See more

Jason Barrett Prado • DAOs are interesting, likely, and terrifying

THE POWER LAW OF VENTURE CAPITAL

Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One

I will create a rule for each of these five attributes. As we shall see, each works well on its own, but they are even more powerful when combined together into the Millennial Money strategy. The strategy identifies companies that: Have shareholder friendly practices (pay dividends, buy back shares, and pay down their debt) Earn strong returns on t

Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Millennial Money: How Young Investors Can Build a Fortune

Many companies’ decision-making systems are designed to steer investments to initiatives that offer the most tangible and immediate returns, so companies often favor these and shortchange investments in initiatives that are crucial to their long-term strategies.

Clayton M. Christensen • How Will You Measure Your Life?

By contrast, angels invest from their own—much smaller—pockets, and a typical angel round (from a group of angels, or a super-angel fund) might be a total of $250,000 to $500,000, with a postmoney valuation of $1 million to $2 million. Even if the angels target a higher ROI (say, 15x to 30x), they can achieve that with a strategic sale of the compa

David S. Rose • Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money and Having Fun Investing in Startups

The idea that a few things account for most results is not just true for companies in your investment portfolio. It’s also an important part of your own behavior as an investor.