Emporia Energy is a Colorado company that sells smart EV chargers and home energy monitors. We are selling about ten thousand devices a month through Amazon and Shopify and we need better tools for sales tracking, managing inventory across warehouses and forecasting demand (since physical product takes months to manufacture and ship).We are debating build vs buy. On the buy side we are...
Emporia Energy's smart EV charger can already do this. So can our $9 smart plug. Disclosure: I work there.
A few possible reasons to go private: a) smaller and more entrepreneurial operators can produce better returns b) capturing the illiquidity premium.
If you want something more passive, consider investing in several different real estate syndications. You can find them on CrowdStreet or FundRise although I believe you will get into better deals if you join a local investor group and learn from the experienced members. If there isn't a group near you, I'm enjoying participating in www.506investorgroup.com
This style is probably only practical if you already have a net worth of at least $1m. The best book I've found is Investing in Real Estate Private Equity by Sean Cook.
I think it is reasonable to expect a diversified portfolio of real estate syndications to return 10-15% annually although it will be bumpy and your money will be locked up for years.
I do not encourage anyone else to do the same. My risk tolerances are different from yours.
A friend wants to break into coding and has asked my advice. He has an offer from Revature, which he describes as:"They train their new associates for 10 to 12 weeks and then try to place them at different companies. Since the training is free and they also provide corporate housing, they require new associates to sign an agreement for a two year employment term. The first year pay is around...
Tether looks like a good short since if it is a fraud it will go way down and if it isn't a fraud it will stay right where it is.
I'm in the US and would like to short Tether. But I want to get paid if I'm right.
All the clients are running in our Colorado office and we can upgrade them at will.
I think JMS or similar would probably work very well but we don't know messaging so we are having trouble knowing how best to use it.
We are building a Java GUI to talk to a Java server. The GUI mostly displays information streaming from the server and occasionally gives the server commands. We control the code on both sides. Full deployment is about 10 clients, each talking to 1-3 servers that are in a different state.I’m having trouble finding information about modern Java client-server best practices.I’d like to hear...
Not if you are wealthy. If your money might not last you have to shift to conservative assets. But if you have 10x what you need for the rest of your life you can keep investing aggressively.