The Next Great Motley Fool Product is.......

TMFDanDzombak — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 13:43:27 GMT

......?

If you were CEO of the Motley Fool and had complete control over the next few services and products the Fool launched, what would they be?

An Egregious Example of The Problem With U.S. Healthcare: Sutter Health

TMFDanDzombak — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:24:46 GMT

This Business Week article on Sutter Health got my blood boiling.

Some quotes:

"Sutter Health, the non-profit that owns Sutter Davis, charges 40 percent to 70 percent more than its rivals for a typical procedure, and it requires insurers to keep its rates secret"

The Best Investment Advice You Will Ever Get If You Have Under $100k

TMFDanDzombak — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:22:35 GMT

From Mark Cuban at Blog Maverick
Point #1 can't be stressed enough.
The Best Investment Advice You Will Ever Get
I’m going to simplify what I consider to be the best investment advice I have ever been given and share it with you. Here you go:

1.CAPS Editorial put together a new weekly article series where we select a top CAPS pitch from the past month. This week’s article features bullishbabo's pitch for Genco Shipping and Trading (NYSE: GNK)

Article: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/07/30/weekly-top-stock-idea.aspx

There is even an RSS f...

Avoid The Next "BP"

TMFDanDzombak — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:26:15 GMT

Recently wrote an article I thought was interesting, reposting it here
BP (NYSE: BP) had always been thought of as a blue chip, a stock you can invest in and not worry. But then the Deepwater Horizon disaster happened, lopping off nearly 40% of the company's value. In dollar terms, that's more than $...

Joel Bauer: Your Business Card Is Crap!

TMFDanDzombak — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:34:30 GMT

I absolutely love this video, have probably watched/listened to it over 50 times in the past 3 months. So great on so many levels.
I classify this article as one of the top 20 I have ever read (this is the 2nd I've posted from my list, the first is here). Before Marc Andreesen started his new VC firm Andreesen Horowitz, his blog was a wonderful resource for information on investing and startups. Immediately after he removed all the content from his blog, ...

CAPS' Weekly Top Stock Idea: Terra Nova Royalty

TMFDanDzombak — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:03:57 GMT

CAPS Editorial put together a new weekly article series where we select a top CAPS pitch from the past month. This week’s article features TMFDeej’s pitch of Terra Nova Realty (NYSE: TTT)

Article: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/06...

The Motley Fool On YouTube

TMFDanDzombak — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:56:02 GMT

The Fool recently reclaimed the youtube user name TheMotleyFool (As a company we had been occasionally publishing to motleyfoolvideo). The CAPS team is considering a push onto Youtube/more videos on the site which begs the question, what type of content would you like to see on video?
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CAPS' Weekly Top Stock Idea

TMFDanDzombak — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:19:32 GMT

CAPS Editorial put together a new weekly article series where we select a top CAPS pitch from the past month.

There is even an RSS feed so you can easily get the article each week.

Article: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/06/04/caps-weekly-top-stock-idea.aspx

Free Investment Ideas From Professional Investors Delivered Weekly

TMFDanDzombak — Mon, 17 May 2010 12:28:02 GMT

As you may already know, SumZero is the largest global community for buyside investment professionals, with approximately 3,500 elite hedge fund, private equity, and mutual fund analysts. Some of their members include Tom Gayner, Whitney Tilson, and even Michael Mauboussin. Nearly every top investment fund is represented in the site’s userbase.
SumZero is now allowing individual investors to see the Weekly Top Rated idea at no ...

Wilbur Ross on Information and Decision Making in Investing

TMFDanDzombak — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:41:01 GMT

Wilbur Ross in Fortune

The relationship between information and decision making is a challenge. Everyone gets the same information at basically the same time, so the value of information has gone to zero. And there has not been proportionate growth in the investment community’s ability to sort through it all. People spend so much time absorbing that they don’t have time to understand what it means. This creates volatility. ...

The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity

TMFDanDzombak — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:27:26 GMT

Before Marc Andreesen took down his blog started his new VC firm Andreesen Horowitz, his blog was a wonderful resource. Immediately after he took it down I took the time to save a copy of all the best blog posts (there are a lot of them). One of my favorite posts was

The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity
by Marc Andreesen
06/04/2007

Mohnish Pabrai Interview

TMFDanDzombak — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:43:54 GMT

Pabrai was recently interviewed in Forbes.
http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/09/pabrai-leisure-china-intelligent-investing-technology_print.html
At the end of the interview he talks about what is on his checklist.

Hedge Fund Manager Interviews

TMFDanDzombak — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:53:30 GMT

hat tip to Manual of Ideas
The following are links to hedge fund manager interviews posted on the website Hedgefundnews.com. The interviews were conducted between 1995 and 2004.

Copied this straight from Manual of Ideas. It's a great quote, I wish every fund were run this way.
Robert Huebscher of Advisor Perspectives has published anChecklists have been widely discussed in the investing community the past two years after this article appeared in the New Yorker discussing their effectiveness at saving lives and money in the healthcare industry.
Checklists got a further boost when Mohnish Pabrai began using them and subsequently gave In an article today in the NYT Magazine, Roger Lowenstein calls for people to walk away from their mortgages.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/magazine/10FOB-wwln-t.html?src=tptw
Enjoy,
Dan Dzombak

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The Next Great Motley Fool Product is.......

An Egregious Example of The Problem With U.S. Healthcare: Sutter Health

The Best Investment Advice You Will Ever Get If You Have Under $100k

Avoid The Next "BP"

Joel Bauer: Your Business Card Is Crap!

CAPS' Weekly Top Stock Idea: Terra Nova Royalty

The Motley Fool On YouTube

CAPS' Weekly Top Stock Idea

Free Investment Ideas From Professional Investors Delivered Weekly

Wilbur Ross on Information and Decision Making in Investing

The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity

Mohnish Pabrai Interview

Hedge Fund Manager Interviews