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Go GigOptix Go
Go GigOptix! Go! In the last few days, GIG stock has gone up over 50%. Come on, tiny GIG. Keep that up and I might stay out of foreclosure. Don’t worry though. You don’t have to do it all on … Continue reading
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Semi Annual Exercise EOY 2012
Welcome back my friends that know I do this every six months. For everyone else, hi! At the end of June and the end of December I follow the advice of Peter Lynch. If you can’t describe the companies you’re … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, Art, books, consulting, Dendreon, DNDN, Dream. Invest. Live., GGOX, GigOptix, housing, investing, Investor Village, jobs, LTBH, Microvision, Motley Fool, MVIS, occupy, personal finance, photos, Real Goods Solar, RSOL, Scotland, stocks, unemployment, wealth
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Backup Plans
A friend’s blog inspired a paragraph in Tuesday’s post which inspired today’s post. Normally I post on Wednesdays and Saturdays but it is good to break patterns occasionally. She wrote about her Plan B. Now I recognize that I’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged personal finance, frugal, Scotland, Microvision, MVIS, AMSC, DNDN, RSOL, stocks, dancing, writing, Dendreon, Whidbey, investing, Charity, Dream. Invest. Live., wealth, Twitter, Dismal Decade, self publishing, Art, photos, books, frugality, GigOptix, GGOX, teaching, Simple Living, jobs, unemployment, Real Goods Solar, entrepreneur, LTBH, consulting, housing, GIG
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Semi Annual Exercise Mid 2012
Well, these last twelve months have certainly been a surprise and upsetting. Fortunately, by conducting these semi-annual portfolio exercises I can check back and know how the story changed. Trusting to imperfect memories can be delusional. Unfortunately, replaying the disaster … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, Art, Dendreon, DNDN, Dream. Invest. Live., GERN, Geron, GGOX, GIG, GigOptix, investing, Investor Village, LTBH, Microvision, Motley Fool, MVIS, personal finance, Provenge, Real Goods Solar, RSOL, stocks, unemployment
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Eager And Anxious Expectations
Facebook (FB) has a $100,000,000,000 market cap? In so many ways that doesn’t make sense to me. People are expecting great things from them. That’s the nature of investing. Investing is about expectations. Use the past to extrapolate from the … Continue reading
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UW MVIS LMRA GGOX GIG
The story of an idea. Okay, okay. It looks like I should finally spend a bit more time describing the most esoteric of my stock investments. GigOptix (GIG) is the company that I usually skip over when describing what I … Continue reading
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Tagged electro-optical modulators, GGOX, GigOptix, investing, Lumera, Microvision, MVIS, personal finance, stocks, University of Washington
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Sunny And Cold
It is Spring. Today’s forecast: “Little or no snow accumulation expected. ” Well, of course there’s little or no snow accumulation expected. It’s springtime in Seattle. Rain? Yes. Snow? No. I just got back from an early morning walk. Sunshine … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, DNDN, Dream. Invest. Live., frugal, GDP, GERN, GGOX, investing, MVIS, personal finance, RSOL, stocks, unemployment, wealth, Whidbey
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Keeping AAPLs
News alert: Apple is worth more than Poland. Nope. Apple’s market cap is over $500B. Poland’s GDP is about $480B. It sounds like a story, but it is comparing a sum to a rate, a savings account to a paycheck, … Continue reading
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Tagged Microvision, AMSC, RSOL, Geron, GERN, Dream. Invest. Live., SBUX, Apple, FFIV, AAPL, wealth, GigOptix, GGOX, engineering, Real Goods Solar, LTBH, MSFT, AMZN, IMNX
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Work Is Cheap
Busy? Daily. Working hard? Definitely. Fixing up the house? Not really. Want a vacation? Oh yeah. Gonna get one? Well, yes, as soon as the hard work that is keeping me busy begins to pay off. When money is tight, … Continue reading
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Tagged AMSC, Art, consulting, Dendreon, DNDN, entrepreneur, GERN, Geron, GGOX, GigOptix, Karate, Microvision, MVIS, photography, Real Goods Solar, RSOL, Scotland, social media, teaching, writing, YouTube
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Who Gets It
Whitney Houston fans bought over 100,000 copies of her albums after her death. That is a tribute literally paid too late. Sad to say, but rewards aren’t always paid to those who did the work. Estates can become perpetual based … Continue reading
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Tagged GGOX, GigOptix, inheritance, Lumera, Microvision, MVIS, self publishing, teaching, Whidbey Camano Land Trust
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