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Mailbag: Three Essential Questions to Ask Startup Founders

Q: What are the first three questions you ask a founder when you’re researching an investment?
A: Question No. 1: How’s your plan going? This question is important because it gets right to the heart of things. How the founder answers will tell you a lot about how confident they are in their startup. If they claim that everything is peachy, but it doesn’t seem like they’ve actually accomplished much, steer clear.
Question No. 2: What opportunities are you most excited about right now? I usually ask the founder to discuss a few different ongoing projects at the company and how they …read more […]

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Argentina Treasury minister resigns, says ‘significant renewal’ needed amid economic crisis

Argentina’s Treasury Minister Nicolas Dujovne has resigned, saying in a letter seen by Reuters on Saturday he believed the government needed “significant renewal” in its economic team amid a crisis which saw the peso plunge this week.

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SoftBank plans to lend up to $20 billion to employees to invest in new fund: WSJ

Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp is planning to lend up to $20 billion to its employees, including Chief Executive Masayoshi Son, to buy stakes in its second Vision Fund, the Wall Street Journal reported https://on.wsj.com/307Ljih on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter.

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The Moment of Truth: How Much Risk Can You Handle?

Recently, the road has been rocky for individual investors…
A struggling global economy augmented by trade wars has led many to wonder whether it’s finally the end of this bull market. If our readers’ survey responses are any indication, the biggest waves are still to come.
This week, we asked our readers what worries them most about the market. We also asked them to rank their risk tolerance.
While many respondents said that their greatest worry is volatility, most indicated that they have a moderate to high tolerance for risk.

On the other end of the spectrum, 36.7% said they were “comfortable with only …read more […]

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News Fix: American Bar Association, Senators Ask Government for Clarity on Cannabis

Not all heroes wear capes.
Some of them wear suits… and speak at public hearings.
Like former Rep. Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts). Frank served in Congress from 1981 through 2013. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1972 to 1980 before that. And he has been a champion for marijuana reform throughout his career.
In 1972, Frank introduced legislation that would have decriminalized cannabis and established a noncommercial legalization model in Massachusetts. In the 1980s, he co-sponsored a federal medical cannabis legalization bill. And he introduced similar legislation himself in 1995.
Frank now works in the cannabis industry. And this past …read more […]