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

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.

  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

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

Here’s your daily reminder that most of the things you’re caught up in will not matter in 5 years.  By Dickie Bush

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 a bad investment.  Andrew Wilkinson.

President Donald Trump’s administration wants to strike 90 trade deals in 90 days, but the challenges to quickly resolving the president’s trade war are already apparent. Yahoo Finance. Fascinating to watch this unfold.   If not so serious, it would be must see TV.

The latest University of Michigan consumer sentiment surveyreleased Friday showed sentiment hit its lowest level since June 2022. The index slid to a reading of 50.8, below the 57 seen last month and the 53.8 expected by economists.  Yahoo Finance

4 notes this afternoon. 1. The markets are still holding gains this afternoon. 2. It’s been an up and down week with record ups on Wednesday and a down day Thursday. If gains hold today it will be an up week in the market. 3. Long term bond yields are

Is there a risk that as we have a $300 billion a year trade deficit with China that they use that tto overtake us from a military and intelligence perspective?  What are people’s thoughts on this. 

Excited to interview Aniket Bhardwaj of Charles River Associates on mergers and acquisitions and cyber security issues and more next week on the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast.

On our very unofficial X poll, 48% of 1900 respondents said they would cut spending in reaction to market turmoil. Bloomberg reports it’s still unlikely the S&P 500 finishes up this year.

Thrilled early this week to visit with Edward Marx on the Digitial Voices podcast. Great to talk women’s leadership and finance this week with Holly Buckley. Excited to be a guest on the Rural Health Care podcast today with Jeremiah J. Hodshire one of the great leaders of our time.

Can’t wait to visit with Cliff A. Megerian, MD, FACS CEO of University Hospitals at the Becker’s Healthcare Annual Meeting at the end of April. Excited to hear the complicated Lance Armstrong keynote at the McGuireWoods LLP HealthCare Private Equity Conference May 14 and 15 at the Ritz Carlton in

Great to feature Sales Empowerment Group and Sean Carson on the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast Webinar yesterday. My next webinar where we talk business and growth and treat as an interactive discussion is May 7. Message me with your email and will get you signed up. Limited attendance