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Summary: Good, but need more
Review: The information in the book is as far as it goes. But it would have made more sense to include stuff on trading online - which meant I also bought Trading Online (FT Pitman 1999) by Patel which was a brilliant companion to this book.
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Summary: Need more tech than investment savvy
Review: This book came to me highly recommended by a friend and I read it in no time at all, very well presented and very readable. The only thing is to get the most out of it you need to have a lot of tech knowledge. I work for an e-business consultancy and I found the idea of picking the basket of stocks in a potential Gorilla industry a bit of an intimidating task. However, it does point out you can make a lot of cash from investing later in the game as it becomes more obvious who the key player is, this is probably a better approach than the one they advocate for most people.
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Summary: High-Tech Investment Bible
Review: This book has totally transformed my stock selection technique and resulted in a portfolio that is absolutely crushing the general market. I can not say enough about how highly I regard the information outlined in this book. Which high-tech stocks win on Wall St and why? The book sets forth a framework in which investors can understand how to value one stock in comparison to another. After reading it the world of investing finally started to make sense. This book is useful for any person that is out to find the next Microsoft. Buy this book.
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Summary: Gorilla Games Help Keep Us Gorilla's on Our Toes
Review: This book is a good gift for your friends and relatives who invest but don't really know much about what they are doing. The advice, logic, and approach, while conservative, is way too dull and boring for the likes of me. Nevertheless, I believe a less experienced investor would get a lot of information and control from an informed reading of The Gorilla Game.
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Summary: a must for high tech investors
Review: This book is unique in the investment community for high tech investing. Rather than the usual technical or macro analysis, the emphasis is on the fundamentals of specific companies and markets . The best chart in the book is a four-quadrant chart on proprietary architecture versus switching cost. I now use this chart with every investment I make. Also, the chapters in the last half give practical, real-world examples of how to apply the investing paradigm. Another Geoff Moore classic!
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Summary: Perhaps even more important for employees than investors
Review: This book was recommended to me by a seasoned, sophisticated investor. It's a must read--not only for technology investors (people who invest MONEY)---but it's perhaps even more important for persons trying to decide which high-tech company to work for (people who invest TIME). That's because the potential appreciation from employee stock options makes one's choice of employer more important than ever.
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Summary: Objectively, this book picks losers
Review: This is a surprise to me--pretty much everything suggested in this book makes a great deal of sense to me. It ought to help you pick winners. But at the tail end of the book, they list 4 sectors to invest in. Leaving out the grandfather gorillas (Microsoft, Cisco, Intel: do you really need a book to tell you they are good investments) and Internet browsers (yet another excuse to buy Microsoft), they list two areas for investment: Supply Chain Management and Security. In the 18 months since they wrote that chart, the best of the Supply Chain companies is +32%. The best of the security companies is -35%. In an 18 month period when the tech sector was booming, following the advice here would have lost you money. If the goal here is to teach you how to pick the next Microsoft or Cisco, empirically this book fails to do it.
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Summary: Great Common Sense Guide to Technology Investing
Review: This is the best book I have read on investing in Technology stocks. It provides a conceptual framework that anyone can use to identify the current and emerging leaders "gorillas" in various segments of the High Tech Industry. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to invest in Technology stocks.
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Summary: Success in the tech sector is found within these pages
Review: This is the book that arms the individual investor with the knowledge and the experience to be successful in the tech sector. There is no other book with the insight and intelligence of this and it is a must read for all those who consider themselves investors in the field. This book takes the mystery out of investing in the field and provides a simple strategy for success. It takes the ordinary individual and educates him on the history of the sector, how we got to where we are today and them applies the same fundamentals to provide a road map for the future. It is the closest thing most of us will ever get to inside information and I highly recommend it.
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Summary: The famous book
Review: Unless you are an insider. Look for companies with large capital who will eventually control the market by a sequence of aquisitions, example is CISCO. Currently JDSU took the fiber optics market by buying out competition . Then who will take the wireless. hardly any inovation here. For a book that mention inovation a 1000 times.
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