Business of Success Podcasts

Secrets of Wall Street with Timothy Hogan

In this great interview we speak to Timothy Daniel Hogan, CEO of Commonwealth Capital Advisors and author The Secrets of Wall Street - Raising Capital for Start-Up & Early Stage Companies. In this interview Hogan shares with us the essential of raising capital as he address the massive unmet need for the 25 Million U. S. small businesses, as well as, the 600,000 start-ups formed each year…access to venture capital directly from individual investors. Hogan, who started his Wall Street career in 1985 with one of the largest firms in the business, Merrill Lynch, then moved on to E. F. Hutton and Shearson Lehman Brothers, explains how in good times and bad, only 1.5% of small businesses receive funding from venture capital firms, leaving 98.5% with no where to turn, until now.

This is a truly great interview packed with sound advice

Wall Street Secrets Interview

The Secrets of Wall Street details how entrepreneurs can successfully raise substantial amounts of venture capital on their own by creating a “finance department” within their company. An “in-house” finance department enables one to compete directly with financial institutions, i.e. venture capital firms, for individual investor funds.

The book explains how to:

• Quickly, easily and effectively raise substantial amounts of venture capital from individual investors through the issuance of privately and publicly placed      securities;
• Build a self-funding finance department that enables you to deal from a relative position of strength in all financial matters;
• Produce securities offering documents with “marketable” deal structures at a fraction of the traditional time and cost, while maintaining the vast majority of common equity ownership and voting control;
• Use securities as currency to purchase assets or acquire competitors.

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It’s a turn-key finance department in a book!

The Big Money with Frederick Kobrick

BASM is where your investing fortune lies!

In this great BOS interview Alan speaks with Frederick R. Kobrick, "Master" stock picker, mutual fund manager and author of The Big Money: Seven Steps to Picking Great Stocks and Finding Financial Security .  Kobrick shares with us his time proven techniques on how to pick the high performance stocks that can appreciate in value a hundred times plus. Indeed Kobrick (whose friend and competitor Peter Lynch calls him one of the best stock pickers he has ever met), tells us his success formula and explains that by owning just a few "wealth" stocks and following his basic principles you can ultimately become truly rich. 

If you find that the technical aspects of investing and  information overload have  blurred your vision when it comes to picking great stocks, then fear not.  In this packed interview Kobrick unleashes his magic formula; B.A.M.S. and the critical Seven Steps that will help you pick the great stocks before everyone else discovers they're great. This is a gem of an interview; so listen and learn!

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In his wonderfully written book Kobrick describes how he found some of his most successful stocks simply by looking carefully at the products and services that customers and investors love, and recognizing the great business models that create repeatability, the ability to keep producing success. He explains that the average investor should not try to emulate a stock analyst or a technician to find great stocks that will generate great wealth. Instead investors must recognize great companies early -- by understanding their business model, identifying their assumptions, recognizing their business strategy, and evaluating their management. Kobrick calls those four factors BASM, and they are the cornerstone of his investing philosophy. Great managements grow companies and earnings, driving stock prices higher. Kobrick also offers some tried-and-tested ways to know when you have a winner you should hold, and when you should sell. 

The Big Money is a "must read" and according to Peter Lynch, breaks new ground and will help investors improve their skills.

Bio: Frederick R. Kobrick has managed money for more than thirty years. He spent fourteen years as an investment analyst at Wellington Management Company, then joined State Street Research & Management in 1985. He managed the State Street Research Capital Fund, which was one of the five best-performing funds in the country for fifteen years, according to USA Today. Kobrick's Capital Appreciation Fund was included in Money magazine's "Six Funds of the Decade" in 1996, and cited in USA Today as among the five best funds for the entire bull market.

Kobrick left State Street in 1997 to start his own firm, managing three public mutual funds as well as Kobrick Capital, a hedge fund for wealthy individuals and institutions. He was cited by The Boston Globe as one of the top three investors of the 1990s. Kobrick Capital was named USA Today All-Star Fund of the Year in 1998 and 1999, the only mutual fund ever to win twice.

The Well-Timed Strategy with Peter Navarro

If you're an invester in the stock market, a business owner or entrepreneur you'll understand how an economic downturn can impact dramatically on your bottom line.  And if you're very savvy, you'll also know how to navigate your way through the ups and downs of the business cycles, through recessions and expansions.  But if you don't... fear not. We have the answers right here as we explore how you can make money on the downturn of a business cycle, rather than losing your shirt!

Listen in as Alan talks to Peter Navarro, business professor at the University of California, Irvine and author of three great books If It's Raining in Brazil Buy Starbucks and When the Market Moves Will You Be Ready?: How to Profit From Major Market Events. Navarro's thrid and latest book The Well-Timed Strategy: Managing the Business Cycle for Competitive Advantage is the subject matter of this interview and we delve deep into the business cycle risks and opportunities as Navarro reveals why the business cycle is an even more powerful P&L driver that you may realize!

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In this intervew you'll discover a number of contrarian and counter-cyclical strategies and tactics that the smarter investors and executives are using to make money off the business cycle.  Navarro gives us example after example of what the smart ones are doing to profit in the face of oil price spikes, trade wars and other macroeconomic events that have most investors and CEOs running for cover... NOT to be missed!

Power Trading with Michael Parness

If you've seen your investments in the stock market dwindle into a worthless load of share certificates only good for papering the wall with, then you'll definitely take pleasure in listening to this next Business of Success interview. Here we speak to Michael Parness who back in 1998 as a struggling playwright and screenwriter decided to leave the stability of his sports memorabilia business to take up his craft full-time. Then on the advice of a stockbroker, he invested his nest egg of $150,000. But October 1988 crash gutted his portfolio by 80 percent and his stocks failed to recover.  Now this is where it all gets interesting. Broke and living in a tiny low rent apartment, Parness in 1999 set out to exact his revenge, and did so admirably. He opened an Ameritrade account and within 15-months he turned his $33,000 into SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS! 

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This is a wonderful opportunity to hear Michael Parness, author of Rule the Freakin' Markets and Power Trading Power Living as he shares with us how to profit in any market, Bull or Bear.  Listen in and discover how he turned his failires around and beat the market, hear what stocks to watch out for, and what opportunities there are for trading in the market right now.

 

Parness went on to found Trendfund.com and is now lead financial advisor, guiding thousands of subscribers who seek his trading expertise in both bull and bear market conditions. Using his an online persona; his trading name, "Waxie," is a nod to a former career in sports memorabilia.

Exclusive with John C. Bogle - Founder of the Vanguard Group

If you're one of the few people who doesn't know who John C. Bogle is, then let me tell you. According to Fortune Magazine John C. Bogle is designated one of the  four "Giants of the 20th Century" in the investment industry, along side other greats such as, Warren Buffet, Peter Lynch and George Soros and Time Magazine ranks him in the top 100 most influential people in the world. 

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In this exclusive interview with Alan Rothman on the Business of Success we talk to John (Jack) C. Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group and author of The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism: How the financial system undermined social ideas, damaged trust in the markets, robbed investors of trillions -- and what to do about it as he delivers a hard hitting and entertaining account of how corporate America nearly derailed American capitalism and failed investors. 

This interview is a must hear for anyone involved in the investment arena or has an interest in leadership, business ethics or just the fancinating story of how this "Giant" became a self-made billionaire. This is one of the ultimate business success stories!

 

More Empire of Debt from Agora's Addison Wiggin

Following our previous interview with Addison Wiggin, author of the book Empire of Debt we again speak to the Editorial Director and publisher of the highly successful The Daily Reckoning  as he updates us on a multitude of topics and gives us a great insight into consumer and investor trends for the future. Listen in as he discusses the opportunities arising from slowing house prices and increased mortgage rates; as we shift into a buyers market with new investment opportunities as a result of the increasing number of foreclosures.

Addison also talks about the enormous spending problem in Washington as the Federal debt reaches $9 Trillion and explains how the Administration is engaging in what he calls “Enron style accounting” as they keep the costs of war in Iraq Afganistan “off budget.”

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For such a short interview it’s full of information that will impact on your investment and tax dollars. Therefore we say this one is worth a listen!

Confession of A Wall Street Trader with Dan Reingold

As mounting numbers of once mighty CEOs are paraded in and out of courts, one might be inclined to believe that Wall Street has cleans up its act and is no longer a rigged insiders game.

Not so, according to Dan Reingold, former top-rated telecoms analyst and author of Confessions of a Wall Street Trader: A True Story of Inside Information and Corruption in the Stock Market who in this interview on BOS gives us a real insight into what it's like to be an inside player in this high-stakes game.

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BOS Interview of the Week With Future Shop Author Daniel Nissanoff

Believe it or not, the following Business of Success interview is worth at least $2,200 to you! Because according to Daniel Nissanoff, author of Future Shop: How the New Auction Culture Will Revolutionize the Way We Buy, Sell and Get the Things We REALLY Want,  your house is overflowing with thousands of dollars worth of unused or unwanted objects. Indeed, it is estimated that the average household has $2,200 worth of unused items.  And it gets better than that: It seems that all of our possessions have that one thing we're all looking for - a residual value!

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In this interview you will hear how in the last year alone, over $44 Billion worth of goods were sold on eBay. You'll also hear how 700,000 people actually make their primary income on eBay, and how only only 5% of the 180 million people who have traded on eBay, have actually ever SOLD on the platform. 

This is a fantastic interview. You will discover how to leverage the auction culture so that you don't miss out and can reclaim that new income opportunity that's rightfully yours. This is your chance to cash in on the paradigm shift in the on-line auction culture, because with the advent of the "Drop Off" stores opening up around the country, you now have no excuse for keeping all that junk that's been cluttering your home!

Don't forget fols; one man's junk is another man's treasure!

This interview has it all and gets our vote as 'BOS Interview of the Week.'

Investing in Nanotechnology with Jack Uldrich

Here we speak to Jack Uldrich, president of the NanoVeritas Group and author Investing in Nanotechnology – a book that profiles over 100 leading nanotechnology companies. According to Mark Andreersen , co-founder of Netscape, this is the first book on how to profit from the next big thing; as Andeerseen so eloquently says “Someone is going to make a s***load of money in nanotech.” This is a wonderful interview with  Uldrich, who describes what nanotech is, how it will transform a large number of businesses over the next few years, and how it is projected to account for over a $1 Trillion worth of products just in the USA ALONE!

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For questions such as; how does one distinguish the real players from the "nano-pretenders," or how  can you achieve market-beating returns in Nanotech, along with what steps you need to take to access and profit from the nanotech market, the answer is... simply read the book and listen to this interview -- it's packed full of useful reference points and solid advice-- what more could you want!?

Bo Burlingham on Small Giants

In this fascinating interview we speak to Bo Burlingham, editor at large of INC Magazine and author of a really great book called, Small Giants: Companies that Choose to be Great Instead of Big. Burlingham takes us on a quest to find the best companies (not the biggest!) that were at the crossroads of choice – grow bigger or be the best. The 14 CEOs of the companies that decided to resist the ‘big is best’ model and elected be the best at what they do have made their way into Small Giants and Burlingham recounts in a witty and entertaining style the secrets to their business success and personal fulfillment. What’s interesting about the companies held up as an example of great, instead of big, is that all of the companies have remained private and closely held staying true to their vision and values.

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Outside of size and growth rate, Bo Burlingham's 'Small Giants' also share some interesting characteristics. All have an utter determination to be the best at what they do and most have been recognized for excellence by independent bodies -- both inside and outside of their own industries. All have had the opportunity to raise a lot of capital, grow very fast, do mergers and acquisitions, expand geographically, and generally follow the well-worn route of other successful companies.  The book is one every entrepreneur should read - Click the above link to hear the interview!