How to Kill the Angel Investor "Deal-Killers"Have you experienced the frustration of dealing with a self-proclaimed "interested" angel investor who you just cannot close, no matter how hard you try or how many months go by? If you have, read on.After writing last month about angel investment "Deal-K...

So it’s been some time since I have update this website. What can I say I’ve been known to be like this occasionally, after all divertisty is the flavour of life and all that. I’ve been toying around recently with a couple blogs and software things that I’ve considered replac...

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) has just released its 2008 annual report, along with the ever-important letter to shareholders from the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett.  2008 was more than a rough year.  You have to read into Buffett’s comments to get the full effect.  We are sorry to...

Filed under: Major movement, Earnings reports, Bad news, Safeway Inc (SWY), Options, Technical Analysis Safeway (NYSE: SWY - option chain) stock is falling today after the company reported a fourth-quarter profit of $338 million, or 79 cents per share, missing analysts' projections of 81 cents per s...

When personal finances are discussed, the experts usually divide people into savers and spenders. We ran across a press release from Fidelity, the mutual fund giant, about a survey of workers in the non-profit world. They asked the participants if they were a saver, a spender or an investor. ___ ___...

We are all analysts. We have all the information at our disposal and we will marry that to our experiences and opinions. We don’t have faith in the established financial, political, consumer and even sporting analys systems because they’ve proven fallible. Which is ok, but not when you&#...

I don’t know why I am posting this outside of the fact I love seeing what people make for their jobs.  There are a surprising number of non profit heads and directors who make way north of $250,000, and now it is interesting to see what Nina Link of  Magazine Publishers of America makes for a li...

Many small business owners have a business that they hope will do well and are working hard to make it happen. One of the biggest problems they encounter is getting enough capital to expand the operations. It may be......

Will the International Securities regulators pull their planned conference in tel Aviv, Israel, to protest Israeli efforts to combat terrorism? According to a report in Globes: “Sources inform ”Globes” that the Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) threatened to cancel its...

Biotech, VC, Life Sciences Luke Timmerman wrote: There are easier things to do these days than trying to organize a biotech investing conference in Seattle. The local cluster has taken its share of body blows, the weather is usually pretty gray in late winter, and investors aren’t in the mood ...