The market was flat this month. A few things very slightly up, a few things very slightly down, and a lot of boring. I have told everybody many times that I think the crowd is usually wrong. They rush in … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2017
Introduction Further elaborating on Porter’s Five Forces, I’ll define each of the forces in a separate post. Below I’ll define the Bargaining Power of Suppliers. Definition The definition is simply how much power does a single supplier have. By supplier … Continue reading
Introduction Further elaborating on Porter’s Five Forces, I’ll define each of the forces in a separate post. Below I’ll define the Bargaining Power of Buyers. Definition The definition is simply how much power does a single buyer have. If an … Continue reading
Introduction Further elaborating on Porter’s Five Forces, I’ll define each of the forces in a separate post. I defined Barriers to Entry before, below I’ll define Threat of Substitutes. Definition For every industry, the sellers have to deal with the … Continue reading
Introduction Michael Porter was an academic business theorist who wrote on a wide variety of topics. One of the things that he wrote about during his very prolific career was his five forces model, which is one of the most … Continue reading
The market has continued to climb. The Dow is up about 277 points, roughly 1.3%. That is not a huge increase, but it has been steady. Sometimes it is good to be the tortoise and not the hare. Obviously, the … Continue reading
Lowering Fees It is very important to me to provide people value. For the many of you that know me, you know that I do this job because I want to help people and I’m very good at it. That … Continue reading
What is a Bottleneck? In a business system or operations chain, things can only go as fast as the slowest piece. A bottleneck in a system is a part that is slowing down everything else. If the bottleneck is strengthened … Continue reading
Definition A barrier to entry as the name indicates is whatever factors that are in place that prevent some companies from entering an industry. The most common barrier to entry is cost. As mentioned in an earlier post, a company … Continue reading
The market was slightly down this month and somewhat up for the quarter. Nothing exciting either way. My wife suggested that I discuss social security. I then realized that I have ignored this topic in my newsletters. I answer a … Continue reading