Word: pickering
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...Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, Calif.--the Main Street of venture capitalism.) But what has set Wetherell and CMGI apart has been his phenomenal success. His early investments in Lycos, Booklink, GeoCities, Critical Path and a slew of other Internet companies have established Wetherell as an uncanny picker of soon-to-be-ripe Internet fruit...
...humanist on me. You know what I'm talking about: examples of idiocy and ridiculousness that range from the incipient nose-picker in section to the kiddie porn dealer in Mathews (I know...
...take a flyer on a stock in an industry to which you're already heavily exposed, take the cash from your hunch pool. Meanwhile, make sure that your other 401(k) and any additional retirement accounts are invested in diversified stock funds or, if you're a stock picker, spread among other industries. There's nothing wrong with having confidence in your employer. But even Bill Gates sells Microsoft shares regularly to diversify...
...stock portfolios. Says H. Peter Karoff, head of the Philanthropic Initiative, a consulting firm that helps wealthy clients donate like investors: "The hard look at the management of charitable groups, the scrutiny of how an organization makes an impact--all those things you do every day as a stock picker work very well in philanthropy...
...Here, take a picker, there aren't many apples left down low," says the worker handing out buckets and pickers--modified broomsticks with baskets to catch the apples--to the occasional harvester...