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Profits that come from Stocks remain in your trading account. You transfer them from your trading account into your business bank account. The actual profit/difference is taxed. I don't understand what's so complicated?

It would probably never reach scale for obvious reasons, but someone should productize this.

"I'll get you a 20% more high paying job for $1,000"

What do you see as risky? I don't invest in companies I don't believe will be around in 10-15 years -- I don't invest in penny stocks. I invest in REAL companies (Amazon, Shopify, Atlassian, etc.)

1) What capital gains tax? You can run it through a company, which is what I do.

2) Broker fees are $0 as I use Robinhood.

Like I said, I made a ~44% return. If a $7 trader fee is your argument for it not being viable then you are most likely not investing enough money, or not getting a decent return.

I did answer it. I will try to illustrate it even further. Public-ally traded companies, regardless whether they're high growth tech or not, tend to have big jumps or declines in stock price on earning calls date.

Take for example Shopify. Their stock is very fast growing, however, you'll always notice a decent bump during earnings calls. I buy 30-60 days before this earnings call, because I anticipate it'll grow in the next 30-60 days (for the earnings call), given the previous growth. I sell on the day of earnings call

Not yet... Have considered it, but seemed to complicated. I use Robinhood

The stock grows/declines severely during earning call. I use that to my advantage/leverage

To clarify: I still have to execute the orders to buy and sell, but the thinking for when to buy and what to buy is automated.

I just sell after the earnings or when I gain the desired amount (5-10% return)

I automated my Investment Portfolio.

My investment thesis is to buy high-growth tech company stocks with an upcoming earnings call in the next 90 days. I have a script that scrapes Yahoo finance and tells me which stocks to buy.

Surprisingly it's worked well, and I've gotten a return of 44% last year

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9d958oyuvs&feature=youtu.be

When I was a teenager, I wrote to Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, telling him how he's had such a huge impact on me, and how he's very inspiring to me.

He responded that I buy one of his two books.

Great article – Really curious how much this is due to China rather than Asia as a whole

12 Years. Sounds quite long...?

Not sure why all the hate. When she joined Yahoo in 2012, stock was ~$18 for a good 6 years. Since then, it's doubled

not quite ANY. doesn't work for "bosnia"

hmm, have you tried Gotackle.co ? It's a much, much simpler version of Grasshopper. Works straight from your phone

Looks pretty cool!

Noticed the same exact thing when I go to Europe, vs. America

I think the article mostly applies to America. American food is just fattening

Sandler sales - its the book I give to all my new sales reps. Highly recommend!

Anyone know if there's any major upgrades re. speed? From 9.0 to 9.5?

Typically it's 3 - 3.5x X Annual Profit (+ Owner Wage)

>> So I'm in a bit of a jam at the moment, and would like to ask for your help with finding a one-off or part-time gig to stay afloat. I've already tried most of the remote job sites [1].

>> My rate is $150 per hour, and is not negotiable. I can usually commit to 20 hours per week, but I will be available for full-time work (60 hours per week) over the next few weeks.

So you're stuck in Thailand, turn to help on Hacker news, and then mention how "My rate is $150 per hour, and is not negotiable."

Not sure how many people you'll attract with this strategy.

Depending on the nature of your business, you could get between 2-3.5k X (your annual profits + founders wages)

Highly reco. looking at this:

http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-197-h...

also, LOTS of broken English in the instructions. needs a lot of refinement

If you like Intercom's knowledge base (docs.intercom.io), you should definitely check out Helpjuice.com (I'm the founder, ceo)

have you checked out Helpjuice.com?

I'm the founder of it, and would be more than happy to answer some questions, if you have any!

Sorry about that. Our hacky bounce exchange has gone insane.

I take that back. It sounds like the purchase price was closer to 15mil.

>> In March 2014, we completed an acquisition of Zopim. The purchase price of approximately $15.9 million ($5.0 million of cash and $10.9 million of our common stock) includes $1.1 million of cash and $2.4 million of common stock consideration held back between 12 and 18 months as partial security for standard indemnification obligations and which is payable in the future under terms specified in the stock purchase agreement. In connection with the acquisition of Zopim, we established a retention plan pursuant to which we will pay up to $13.9 million in cash and equity consideration over two and three years, respectively, to Zopim employees in connection with their continued employment.

Seems like they bought Zopim for 1,803,345 shares. In their S-1 They mention: "20,267,882 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options to purchase common stock that were outstanding as of December 31, 2013, with a weighted-average exercise price of $1.41 per share;"

Which would bring the Acq. price of Zopim to ~2.5mil USD, if I understood it properly.

This is very typical way of approaching sales and arrangements in the sales world. Sandler sales and a lot of other sales techniques / principles apply this, and I've seen it work wonders