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The 10 Most Common Mistakes People Make When Investing

10.22.09 | business | Share | Share

Here’s the video of The 10 Most Common Mistakes People Make When Investing, a one hour class I taught on the learning website edufire on October 21, 2009. Thank you to all my students for being so enthusiastic!

The 10 Most Common Mistakes:

#10: Narrowly defining “Investing”
#9: Taking big risks in hopes of earning a big return
#8: In monetary investing, failure to focus on the 4 things that matter
#7: Trusting untrained feelings
#6: Trusting a number
#5: Trusting or distrusting, rather than verifying
#4: Deciding it’s verified without asking what is required to know it is
#3: Thinking the future must or can’t follow the past
#2: Not knowing how to strike a balance: eggs in one basket vs diworsification
#1: Failing to look deeper

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Free Class by Ranjit Mathoda: The 10 Most Common Mistakes People Make When Investing

10.16.09 | business | Share | Share

On Wednesday, October 21st, 2009, at 5pm Pacific Time (that’s 8pm East Coast Time), I will be teaching a free online class, called The 10 Most Common Mistakes People Make When Investing.

The class is being taught through online video, so you can essentially attend from anywhere in the world that you can get broadband Internet service. After going through what I believe the biggest mistakes are I will answer questions people may have. So feel free to compose some questions ahead of time.

Space is limited to 99 students, total, so if you’re interested be sure to sign up soon, by going to the following link and clicking the orange “Register for class” button on the top right of the page:

http://edufire.com/classes/9614-the-10-most-common-mistakes-people-make-when-investing

Update, 10/22/2009: The video of the class is now available at http://mathoda.com/2009/10/the-10-most-common-mistakes-people-make-when-investing

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Ocyle is mentioned in the New York Times

09.16.09 | business, personal, tech | Share | Share

I can’t comment in public about the New York Times article “Buying Shares in Private Start-Ups” which mentions a company I cofounded called Ocyle. But I certainly have a deep appreciation for the investigative skills and humorous writing style of Mr. Kouwe.

Thanks for visiting my website,
Ranjit Mathoda

ps.
If you’d like to reach Ocyle you can do so at http://ocyle.com or by using the following form.

Favorite Quote: Pickens Sr. on the importance of having a plan

04.07.09 | business, humor | Share | Share

“Let me just give you a little advice. Son, a fool with a plan can beat a genius with no plan. And what we’re afraid of is, what your mother and I are afraid of, is that we have a son who is a fool with no plan.”

Thomas Boone Pickens Sr., to his son, who had switched from a medical major to a business major, and wasn’t doing particularly good in either. His son, T. Boone Pickens, went on to have a famous business career

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t boone pickens on the cover of time

You can find my other favorite quotes at http://mathoda.com/quotes.

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Favorite Quote: Obama on Leadership

01.23.09 | business, political | Share | Share

“I don’t think there’s some magic trick here. I think I’ve got a good nose for talent, so I hire really good people. And I’ve got a pretty healthy ego, so I’m not scared of hiring the smartest people, even when they’re smarter than me. And I have a low tolerance of nonsense and turf battles and game-playing, and I send that message very clearly. And so over time, I think, people start trusting each other, and they stay focused on mission, as opposed to personal ambition or grievance. If you’ve got really smart people who are all focused on the same mission, then usually you can get some things done.”

Barack Obama, on leadership

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