During the 1996 annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway, a woman asked Chairman Warren Buffett for some investment advice. She said she dabbled in stock with her husband, but they followed different strategies. Her husband bought perhaps 40 different companies for his portfolio. She largely stuck to buying two companies – Berkshire Hathaway and Microsoft Corporation. She asked Buffett if her approach was right. He cautiously told her he didn’t recommend selling. Berkshire continued to outperform in subsequent years and Microsoft today is one of the world’s most-valuable company, with a market value of $1.3 trillion. …

Create posts that feature you, your clients and how you can work together. April 30, 2020 4 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. “What the heck am I supposed to post today?” If you have ever created content for social media, this thought has surely crossed your brain at least 43,879,098 times. And besides being engaging (hello likes, comments, and shares … we see you and we love you), how do you take all those clicks and turn them into cash? How do you flip a social media follower into a client? Thankfully, it doesn’t have…

The concept of a business ecosystem was first articulated by the strategist James F. Moore in his seminal 1993 Harvard Business Review article, “Predators and Prey: A New Ecology of Competition,” and the idea has since gained substantial currency. A business ecosystem is a community of enterprises and related organizations that coevolve over time and align themselves with directions set by one or more central companies. Examples of business ecosystems include a computer company and its users, investors, and third-party app developers; or an energy company with its network of suppliers, customers, traders, and resellers; or an auto manufacturer and…

Reliance Industries’ (RIL’s) consolidated performance for March 2020 quarter (Q4) may be disappointing, yet experts are bullish on the stock and believe that shareholders should subscribe to the company’s rights issue. The challenges posed by demand disruption in core refining, petrochemicals and even retail business were evident in Q4 and are likely to continue, but strong growth in Jio Platforms, which comprises digital businesses, including telecom, along with deleveraging initiatives should create shareholder value in the long run. In the refining and marketing business, per barrel gross refining margin (GRM) at…

Join author and entrepreneur Kim Walsh Phillips as she discusses best practices for driving leads in today’s world. April 30, 2020 1 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Join author and entrepreneur Kim Walsh Phillips as she discusses best practices for driving leads in today’s world.  Attendees of this webinar will discover:  1. The “New Consumer Psychology” that can trigger a sale whether you are b to b or b to c2. A hidden gateway to quickly generating a flood leads you can launch in just minutes3. How to be a “welcomed guest” instead of an…

A total of about 790 health insurance claims amounting to about Rs 15.75 crore for Covid-19 have been lodged with the non-life insurers across the country till date, said an industry official. Speaking on the condition of anonymity the official told IANS that the Covid-19 related health insurance claims are highest from Maharashtra at about 380 and followed by Delhi (about 140) West Bengal (about 75) and Tamil Nadu (about 51). The officials said about 790 claims have been lodged claiming about Rs 15.75 crore with several non-life insurers.  …

Nifty futures contracts traded on Singapore Exchange (SGX) slumped about 6 per cent on Friday after capping their highest monthly gain in 11 years. The fall came amid sharp declines in markets such as Australia, Japan and the UK. India and most other Asian and European markets were shut. Market players said fresh tensions between the US and China triggered risk-off bets among global investors with safe-haven assets such as developed world bonds, US dollar and Japanese yen posting gains. At 5.10 (IST), the SGX Nifty was quoting at 9,297, down…

You don’t have to be an artist to make great digital art. May 1, 2020 2 min readDisclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners. If only given 15 minutes to consume content online, 66 percent of people would prefer to see something beautifully designed as opposed to something simple. It’s a competitive world out there on the Internet and if your site has poor, unattractive design, you’re missing out…