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How Massive Scalability Generates Giant Profits

In March, Forbes magazine released its annual “richest people in the world” list. Among the top 20 richest people were familiar names: Amazon (AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos, Microsoft (MSFT) founder Bill Gates, Oracle (ORCL) founder Larry Ellison, Facebook (FB) founder Mark Zuckerberg, and Alphabet (GOOGL) founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. And there’s one simple, common theme running through that list of people and businesses: SCALE. As someone who specializes in early stage, “venture capital” style investments, scale is the one thing I’m always looking for, too.

This $2.7 Billion Deal Is a Shot Across the Bow for Big Pharma

Folks who haven’t been paying attention to the absolutely huge potential happening in biotech stocks right now -- both in the U.S. and other parts of the world -- have been put on notice.

Cashing In When Chinese Stocks “Catch Up”

There are few delays in life worth looking forward to. But when it comes to stocks, there’s one delay that can put extra money in your pocket: It has to do with a major discrepancy between the U.S. and China. Because our economy is much more mature than China’s, innovative new business ideas tend to spring up, attract investment capital, and get applied in the U.S. before they do in China. But since the Chinese government uses laws and regulations to restrict – and sometimes ban – non-Chinese companies from doing business in the country, many top American companies are shut out of the giant market.

How My Boots-on-the-Ground Research Can Make You Rich!

Matt McCall has his boots on the ground at the Portugal Web Summit this week -- all in the name of uncovering the next big tech stock.

MoneyLine: The Latest “Far Out There” Investment

How much money would you pay to be shot into space… in a rocket… for about seven minutes? I know some people wouldn’t pay a dime. I would, but the going rate of $250,000 is a bit excessive for me. That’s how much 603 people have spent to book a seat on one of Virgin Galactic’s (SPCE) space shuttles. Virgin Galactic is the brainchild of billionaire Sir Richard Branson, who I consider one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the last 100 years. The company became the first publicly traded space exploration business when it IPO’d on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Monday.