Personal Finance

How Investing in the Cow Shit Industry can Go Wrong (A Misadventure in Biogas)

Shit is a shitty investment. Who could have guessed?

From here the jokes are so obvious I won’t bother with them. It’s enough to say if this was fiction it would be a…

How Horsehead Holdings Made Me Look More Like a Horse’s Ass

Who are you?

I’m a startup guy, and a lifelong business nerd. I’ve been reading, listening, and talking about business and investing since I can remember. I read a lot and fancy myself a…

How Pranav took a 50% loss after being up 5x on Ricoh India

Pride comes before the fall. And sometimes a huge gain comes before a crippling loss. This is the story of a five-bagger return that was based on a fraudulent company… and how that quickly turned out poorly.

How to Write a Post for “I Am A Terrible Investor”

We’ve had a lot of interest from great people of all kinds about writing their story for us. And I’ve gotten just as many questions about how this works and what they should write.

New Project: I Am A Terrible Investor. (and what this is all about)

Hi, my name is Eric and I am a terrible investor.

I have lost many thousands (update: tens of thousands) of dollars because I thought I might be an “okay” investor.