Book Review: Insider Buy SuperStocks By Jesse Stine
Jesse doesn’t invest exclusively in microcaps, but many of his big winners started out as microcaps.
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Jesse doesn’t invest exclusively in microcaps, but many of his big winners started out as microcaps.
Merchants of Grain is a detailed and alluring account of five very secretive but very large companies that are in the center of the world’s food supply.
I’ve written about JG Boswell (BWEL) a couple of times here on MicroCapClub, but I finally finished reading the only book that gives a detailed history of the company and man behind it. JG Boswell is known as the country’s largest farm (150,000 acres), which is located
In a previous interview I did with the late David Thomson I asked him what he thought was the biggest deterrent to an emerging growth company’s success. To my surprise he said, “the corporate board”. His response really got me thinking about why this is and why no one
In 1946, Georges Doriot launched the first structured venture capital firm called American Research and Development Corporation (ARD) which was also publicly traded.
Rockefeller with Oil, Carnegie with Steel, JP Morgan with Electricity, Ford with Automobiles, Vanderbilt with Railroads, and Sam Zemurray with Bananas.
I always enjoy reading books by experienced microcap investors. I first heard of Russell Cleveland when I was an investor in Global Axcess Corp (GAXC) a few years ago and I noticed he also owned the stock. I read about him and found he had a similar investment philosophy to
First of all this book has nothing to do with investing, but I’ve always been drawn to businessmen that have come from rather humble beginnings to being the best of the best. How did they get there? What was the tipping point in their careers? The Last Sultan, his
Originally published in 1997, “You Can Be A Stock Market Genius” remains popular today and is enthusiastically endorsed in a number of reviews on the internet. The author, Joel Greenblatt, ran hedge fund Gotham Capital racking up a 50% average annual return over a 10 year period spanning the mid
As a full time investor I’m always interested in learning from other investors. It has been a long time since I read a 500-page book in a week, so that should tell you off the bat what I thought of the book. Jack Schwager is one of the leading
A friend of mine recommended I read Blueprint to a Billion. I’m glad I did. The book goes into detail analyzing the fastest growing companies since 1980, in particular those companies that reached $1 billion in revenues the quickest. Of the 7,454 companies that have gone public since
Dark Genius of Wall Street (Buy Here) This book is a fantastic read about one of the 19th century’s most misunderstood business moguls, Jay Gould (1836-1892). Vanderbilt whom hated Gould due to losing to him on several occasions to acquire railroads said, “Gould was the smartest man in the