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The Infant Learner

Some stuff I read this week:

A.  This week’s Special:- 

Venture Investing with Alex Rubalcava

Alex Rubalcava, a founding member of Stage Venture Partners. Prior to founding Stage Venture Partners, Alex managed a small hedge fund, later turned family office, for high net worth investors, employing a long-biased value strategy. Prior to launching his own fund, Alex was an analyst at Anthem Venture Partners, a venture capital fund in Santa Monica, CA. At Anthem, Alex worked on early stage investments including Myspace, TrueCar, and Android.

Alex has also been an active angel investor and is active in Los Angeles nonprofits; he has served on the board of Los Angeles Animal Services, KIPP LA Schools, and South Central Scholars. Alex is a 2002 graduate of Harvard University and we’ve known each other for a decade.

Recently he was interviewed at manualofideas.com. Click the link given below to listen to the interview:

Interview with Alex Rubalcava

B. Entrepreneurial Diary

Bitcoin: The New Gold Standard ( CI )
Jeff Bezos – How To Start A Business ( IF )
Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s I/O 2017 keynote ( RN )
Unicorns: Road To Success — Innovation, Values And Scale ( ME )
LinkedIn Top Companies 2017: Where the world wants to work now ( LI )

C. Other Stories

No pizza today ( VI )
Bad Experiences ( CF )
Break it down and reason up ( JA )
Investing Lecture with Vijay Kedia ( ML )
Book Notes : The Laws of Wealth ( KP )
Don’t Compare Yourself To Others ( MC )
The Gloom & Boom in Offline Retail ( YT )
Why Bull Markets Create Bad Habits in Investors ( FC )
10 Insights from the Berkshire Hathaway Weekend ( BV )
From the Vault: Guy Spier on Finding a Company’s Moat ( RI )
A Dozen Lessons about Money and Investing from Kendrick Lamar  ( IQ )
Warren Buffett’s Secret to Achieving Massive Success: Critical Thinking ( AB )

“I read everything: annual reports, 10k’s, 10q’s, biographies, histories, five newspapers a day. On airplanes, I read the instructions on the backs of seats. Reading is key. Reading has made me rich over time” – Warren Buffett

“I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you” – Charlie Munger

You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By applying yourself to the task of becoming a little better each and every day over a period of time, you will become a lot better”-  Carol Dweck