NFX Guild is a mentorship - driven startup accelerator founded by partners and long -
term tech investors James Currier, Gigi Levy - Weiss and Stan Chudnovsky.
Roger McNamee, Elevation Partners co-founder, weighs in on Dow 20K, and why long -
term tech investors should remain defensive amid the Trump administration.
Not exact matches
The funding, led by prominent
tech investor Accel, will bring it closer to its long
term goal: using balloons to get people close to space.
The eagerness of
investors to chase prevailing trends, and their unwillingness to concern themselves with predictable longer -
term risks, drove a successive series of speculative advances and crashes during the past decade - the dot - com bubble, the
tech bubble, the mortgage bubble, the private - equity bubble, and the commodities bubble.
As a long
term Prospa
investor and Board member, Avi Eyal, Partner at UK - based Entrée Capital commented, «Prospa has had exceptional growth over the past four years, led by two of the best CEOs in
tech today, Greg Moshal and Beau Bertoli.
We are backed by leading global institutional
investors from all over the world and provide long -
term, world - class returns by identifying and pursuing attractive investment opportunities in Israel's vibrant
tech industry.
«Stocks are for long -
term goals, and
investors should try not to focus on short -
term fluctuations,» said Michael Guillemette, assistant professor of personal financial planning at Texas
Tech University, who echoed Stein's advice on diversifying your holdings.
Given the sector - specific focus, QTEC is probably too granular for those building a long -
term, buy - and - hold portfolio, but can be useful for
investors putting on a tactical tilt or looking to beef up
tech sector exposure.
Many
investors think that the only way to build truly substantial long -
term wealth is to buy the next high - flying
tech stock such as Facebook (FB), Amazon (AMZN), or Alphabet (GOOG).
In the early days, this was mainly via developer relations / evangelism efforts with
tech and middleware companies (ie, Silicon Graphics, Matrox, Quazal), then via long -
term efforts with the International Game Developers Association, and more recently through indie / startup and entrepreneurship efforts via early stage
investor Execution Labs and the dedicated co-working space, GamePlay Space.
Unlike
tech companies such as Facebook or even Tesla, the primary
investor value proposition for which depends on rapid growth and far - future profitability, most oil and gas companies are typically valued based on risked DCF models in which near -
term production and profits count much more than distant ones.