Welcome to Indian Stocks Mania 5th edition. It is likely that readers may find post that are not representative of the Indian Equity Markets. However, the concepts presented by authors can very well be applicable to Indian Investors.
This edition of the carnival received a total of 24 articles of which 14 have been included. Although I enjoyed reading all 24 articles, I did not include all of them because (a) they were outside the subject domain of this carnival; and (b) they would have not been relevant to the readers of this blog. Thank you to all of them who submitted their articles to this carnival.
While you are here on my blog, I encourage you to read few posts to get a feel of India’s Investing scene. For your ease of navigation, the popular posts are listed on side bar on left hand side. I am sure you will enjoy reading!
General Investing
Jae Jun presents The Art of Selling Stocks | Old School Value posted at Old School Value, saying, “Buying a stock is only the first half of the equation. It is the easy half. Knowing when to sell and having a strategy to lock in gains is even more important.”
ABC presents Stock Prices Do Not Represent Stock Value (or Company Value) posted at ABCs of Investing, saying, “A lower priced stock isn’t “cheap”.
You may have seen the MoneyVidya Core Blogger Badge on the left side of my blog. Many of you have asked what does it signify, and what are the benefits to me, is it an advertisement, and/or do I get paid for it. Many have asked, I discuss a lot about long term investing, but then participate on a speculative stock picking site. I had intentionally kept silent about it because I did not want to make any hypothetical argument. I did not want to be perceived as my agenda to promote something. As a matter fact, some time back I presented a very critical 
Bloggers and Blogopreneurs Debate
Across many other blogs, I am observing that entrepreneurism is being associated with (or related) to the personal risk and/or risk of invested money. There is a fundamental flaw in the chain of thinking. And this fundamental flaw comes from our misunderstanding of the true meaning. We take the literal meaning of the definition and fail to put entrepreneurship in proper context.
The central premise of entrepreneurism is about “risk of the idea”. The risk is associated with whether the idea solves any problem, how that idea can be executed, whether a business model can be derived out of it, or whether it can be sustained profitably. The basis of entrepreneurship does not stand on pillar of personal risk and risk of capital. These two aspects are just the enablers or facilitators. They do not, cannot, and will not drive entrepreneurship. If that were the case, then all angel investors and venture capitals would be called entrepreneurs. Buffett takes personal risk and capital risk by putting money into companies (many times distress and depressed companies), he should be called entrepreneurs! Do we call them entrepreneurs?
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