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October 2, 2022October 5, 2022

Decision-Making to Avoid Mistakes: Misconception

Making mistakes may cost you more than your gain. Decision-Making to avoid mistakes is often overlooked. — Making mistake
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Imagine this situation. You have a $1,000 investment and if this year you gain 50%, your money will be $1,500 – that is $1,000 plus (50%$1,000 = $500). The next year, the economy was bleak and affected your investment, so it lost 50%. Your money is $750, which is derived from $1,500 less (50%$1,500=$750). What is the message from this case? Your brilliance could be wiped out easily by mistakes. Decision-making to avoid mistakes should be a priority.

July 29, 2022August 27, 2022

Competitive Analysis of Amazon: Against The Blue Sky

Amazon Competitive Edge

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers an intuitively easy User Interface, flexibility, affordability along with more features. But this isn’t enough to prevent its customer to use the competitor Microsoft Azure (or even Google Cloud) as a secondary cloud provider (as backup). This circumstance allows customers to migrate completely to AWS rivals.
Amazon is busy building economies of scope as a competitive advantage like its acquisition of Medical One, a telecare company, instead of creating or strengthening its cloud ecosystem.
In the long run, we believe the market share of AWS could be slightly eroded gradually by more intense competition due to a lack of switching costs. We think Amazon should take care of this issue seriously, especially when the cloud is its most prolific segment.

April 1, 2022April 15, 2022

Tesla Revenue Analysis: How Far it Leads?

Here is the transcript (edited – smoothed – filtered) version of the discussion about Tesla revenue analysis in our small-hidden group. As usual, our answer always tries to give insight beyond the number that is written in the financial report.

November 27, 2021January 1, 2022

November 2021 Investing Insight

2021 is about recovery. Not only for the stock market but also for mankind. It is when vaccines get global and humans fight coronavirus back. For years, this is the best and maybe the happiest year for us. To see how people survive against the worst. But we won’t discuss it. November 2021 investing insight is a collection of our brainstorming with regard to market and investing. We make it into one article since it is too short to launch in one long post, but it is too precious to hide.

October 10, 2021October 10, 2021

Expansion of Growth Stock: Jailbreak

Google is a search engine and the search engine is Google. That is the unbreakable spell of customer recognition that help Google retain its user. But, what if, the customer recognizes Google is about search engines only? Surely this will resist the expansion of growth stock – Google in this case.

September 30, 2021November 27, 2021

Disruptive Stock Analysis of Tesla: A Reality Checklist

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Tech stocks are dominating the market for more than a decade. This group – Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google – share the same characteristics. They dethroned the incumbent, they defined a new business model, They reshaped the industry. In this article, Disruptive Stock Analysis of Tesla, we try to recognize whether the EV maker could reach the same level as the disruptor group.

September 5, 2021September 15, 2021

Tech Branding Strategy: Temple of Modern God

Tech Branding Strategy is about how the company looks like for a tech company

What is the important element for a browser? Speed, Of course. User Interface? Check. What else? We would say… name. In 2012, Microsoft lost in browser war not only for its sluggish browser but also for its name. Internet Explorer isn’t sexy at all. Firefox is a better name, it reflects speed and energy, like Chrome. The first move of the tech branding strategy isn’t about introducing them to the public. It begins with building the brand, including the name, identity, and characteristics they represent.

August 6, 2021October 4, 2021

Google’s Competitive Advantage. Business Model.

Mapping Competitive Advantage of Google: Hidden Business Model — Google Business Model

Google’s competitive advantage lies in its unique business model and its hyper-scale access. From our business perspective – it ain’t people who can access Google. It is Google that has access to billions of people. Google offers the third party to its tremendous number of users – the third pay for that access.

August 1, 2021July 17, 2022

Investing in Growth Stock: Redefining Value

In Moat versus growth investing, companies could be classified into growth categories or moat categories. Investors need to be very careful in this field. — growth versus moat
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In 2016, Warren Buffett via Berkshire Hathaway bought Precision Castpart – a company that has soared 20 times in the last 13 years. Its revenue grew four times only in the same period. The Oracle of Omaha believes that due to its economic advantage, Precision Castpart deserves that valuation. Here we try to fix the misconception about value investing. Spoiler alert, value investing doesn’t necessarily invest in cheap companies (low P/E, low PBV). Investing in a growth stock is part of value investing