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Mar 15, 2010
Today on MBA Mondays we are going to talk about one of the most important things in business, the profit and loss statement (also known as the P&L). Picking up from the accounting post last week, there are two kinds [...]
Mar 8, 2010
I'm making up the curriculum for MBA Mondays on the fly. The end game is to lay out how to look at businesses, value it, and invest in it. We started with the time value of money and interest rates, [...]
Mar 1, 2010
Yet another MBA Monday topic comes from the comments of last week's post. This series is turning into a conversation which makes me very pleased. Mr Shawn Yeager said: As a recovering lawyer, and a serial entrepreneur, I constantly have [...]
Feb 22, 2010
I'm taking a turn on MBA Mondays today. We are moving past the concepts of interest and time value of money and moving into the world of corporations. Today, I'd like to talk about what kinds of entities you might [...]
Feb 15, 2010
It's time for MBA Mondays again. For the third week in a row, the topic of the post has been suggested by a reader. Last week, Elia Freedman wrote:"A suggestion for your next post. The logical follow-on is to explain [...]
Feb 8, 2010
It's Monday, time for MBA Mondays. Last week, I posted about The Present Value Of Future Cash Flows and in the comments Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry wrote: That being said, before even covering NPV, I would have first talked about the time value of money. To [...]
Feb 1, 2010
My friend Pravin sent me an email last week after my "How To Calculate A Return On Investment" post. He said:I wish there was a class that I could take that would teach me how to properly research stocks/companies for investment purposes and [...]
Jan 25, 2010
The Gotham Gal and I make a fair number of non-tech angel investments. Things like media, food products, restaurants, music, local real estate, local businesses. In these investments we are usually backing an entrepreneur we've gotten to know who delivers [...]