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The Global Guru on Valuation Aswath Damodaran seldomly writes on valuation without numbers and when he does, it’s a treat in its own way – Investing and Valuation Lessons from the Renaissance – Link here Bronze Trumps Silver? Counterfactual Thinking and the Olympics – Link here Katsuyama Shakes Up Industry Even Before His IEX Exchange …

Hollywood is known for its VFX and animated movies that are larger the than life, at the same time cost of doing is also very high, as per one estimate on Quora, a 5 second shot would cost around $80,000 (now we know why movies cost so high). As per another website, Steven Spielberg’s Avatar …

(The long read) 1MDB: The inside story of the world’s biggest financial scandal – Link here Why Is the Stock Market So High? Ask the Bond Market – Link here Nixon’s Failed Effort to Withhold His Tax Returns – Link here Meet the most notorious member of the Haldiram Bhujiawala family – Link here World …

The Questions That Matter – And the questions that don’t – Link here This Bull Market Is Powered by Your Indifference – Link here This much I know: Daniel Kahneman – The 78-year-old Nobel prize-winning psychologist on his pessimistic mother, the delusion of investment bankers and the need for irony – Link here Dumb Alpha: …

As per investopedia Gillette has 70% global market share of shaving blades, taking advantage of its strong market hold it has been resorting to strong price hike (my mach 3 was priced at 25% higher compared to last year). I use to always think its opportunity for new player entrant, however it would take deep …

There is new game in town called “Pokeman Go”, let’s just say it has taken pretty much whole developed nation by storm. To know why, simply understand it merges real world with virtual world. And this could probably be beginning of new revolution how we interact, socialize & entertain ourselves. Read more about it here …

The strange story of a fertility drug made with the Pope’s blessing and gallons of nun urine – Link here 4 Important Lessons You Can Learn Now That 3D Printing is Dying – Link here The secret of taste: why we like what we like – How does a song we dislike at first hearing …

Let say if Driverless car becomes a reality, which most of the people think it will happen, would it change our living pattern? Will it change composition of our city? Why would anybody buy cars? Just use uber or Ola.  Right now many people don’t buy cars as most of their travel is through public …

This is the best piece for all those people who have zero or very small (not seen one full bull & bear cycle) encounter with stock market and are thinking of making a career as Stock Market Trader (Not investor). I have meet tonnes of people from various backgrounds like – fresh or existing MBA …

Mary Meeker one of the partners at renowned Silicon Valley venture-capital fund Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byer delivered her annual Internet Trends, Link here for her complete presentation (200+ slides). Below are the key pointers that I could spot Global internet user stands @3bn and is growing at 9% YoY, excluding india growth stands at 7% …