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Leadership

Rory McElroy won one of the most exciting Masters tournaments in a long time. When he misses key putts under pressure, many of us can relate. When he makes a high pressure putt as he did on the playoff hole, we want to be like that. Justin Rose had a

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Tweets X Poll Results

My Favorite Tweet of the Weekend – Andrew Wilkinson on X, “Our all time best investments, the 10-30 baggers, have always slapped us across the face and required no more than 5 minutes of analysis. If you have to scratch your head and squint to pull the trigger, it’s probably

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Economic Stories

Long term for defense and security reasons and perhaps some economic reasons, we do need to make sure we have some level of industrial capacity in the nation. Ie we need to be able to make computer chips, planes, ships etc. Two core business thoughts for start ups. One of

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The top 5 companies by market cap.

1. Apple down 21% year to date but likely to rise today. 2. Microsoft back in front of NVIDIA and down nearly 8% year to date. We just read a good book about Nvidia and Jensen Huang called “The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World’S Most Coveted Microchip”.

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Market Stories

Futures point up again this am after a solid rebound day Friday and a good week in the markets last week. This comes on the heels of President Trump easing up on and delaying some tariffs. The markets loved this. Three stocks that The Motley Fool says buy. Intuitive, Vertex

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11 Short Notes This AM

11 stories we are following this morning. 1. Futures point up again this am after a solid rebound day Friday and a good week in the markets last week. 2. This comes on the heels of President Trump easing up on and delaying some tariffs. The markets loved this. 3.

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Tariffs and Earnings

This week is all about tariffs and earnings “In the week ahead, any incremental news on tariffs will be in focus. On Saturday news of exemptions on tariffs to China spread. Key products such as smartphones, laptop computers, hard drives and computer processors and memory chips wont be subject to

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Rule Number 1 for Founders

This is from David Lovejoy on X. “Rule one for founders: Don’t run out of cash.”    I’ll add a rule number 2, don’t run a business like you are rich. We agree with rule number 1 and need to always stay focused on number 2. So many good posts

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9 stories today.

9 stories we are following this morning. 1. With all the market turbulence we enjoyed reading a piece in The Motley Fool titled “3 Stocks to Buy and Hold Forever” The article by The Motley Fool names Google, Intuitive and Vertex Pharmaceuticals as three stocks to buy and hold forever.

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6 stories we are following this weekend

  6 stories we are following this morning. 1. With all the market turbulence we enjoyed reading a piece in The Motley Fool titled “3 Stocks to Buy and Hold Forever” The article by The Motley Fool names Google, Intuitive and Vertex Pharmaceuticals as three stocks to buy and hold

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3 Stocks to Buy and Hold Forever

An article by The Motley Fool names Google, Intuitive and Vertex Pharmaceuticals as three stocks to buy and hold forever. Congrats as always to Intuitive, Gary Guthart, Marcus Bland, Donald Brandt II, Taylor Reagan and so many leaders at Intuitive. Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast, Becker’s Healthcare and McGuireWoods

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