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 Investing Is Hard with Brian Portnoy (July 10, 2024) Why is investing so hard? It’s because our brains have been trained, over thousands of years, to trust our fear instincts. In this episode, I speak with Brian Portnoy sits down with Barry Ritholtz to explain why humans aren’t built to be

A quick break from book duty and doing our quarterly client call to share this fascinating discussion from tennis great Roger Federer: “In the 1,526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80% of those matches… What percentage of the POINTS do you think I won in

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Brian Klaas on Flukes, Chance, & Chaos, is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Bloomberg. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ This is

@TBPInvictus here If you’re tired of California-minimum-wage-and-its-impact-on-limited-service-restaurant-employment stories, I understand. Leave this page immediately. I’m tired of it, too, but some stories are so factually challenged that they demand a response. So, allow me to address a hot mess of a story that appeared recently in the California Globe. In

Some of the world’s largest wireless OEMs, carriers, and trade-in companies leverage B-Stock’s B2B marketplace to maximize their profits on trade-in mobile devices and accessories. With over a decade of proprietary, network-wide data at their fingertips, B-Stock’s mobile sales experts can offer great insight into secondary market trends to fetch

Need a Better Way to Manage Your Surplus Goods? Use B-Stock’s Recovery Insights Tool Shoppers today truly want it all—the latest models and styles, fast delivery, easy exchanges, free returns, and so on—and for the most part, leading brands and retailers have gotten great customer experiences down to a science.

B-Stock is so excited to welcome Sabrina Glaser to the Account Management team this summer! As a summer teammate, we know Sabrina will be an incredible asset to the company. Sabrina is currently studying Marketing and Business Analytics at the Kelley School of Business. Learn a bit more about Sabrina

Buying and Selling Bulk Items Hey there, future mogul! Have you tapped into the gold mine of buying and selling bulk items for resale yet? As the e-commerce market booms, a massive opportunity awaits in the realm of resellable inventory. We’re talking about goods that are in wonderful condition and

Unilever Aims High on Sustainability—and We’re Helping If you’re reading this, odds are you’ve used many of Unilever’s products over your lifetime. In fact, you’ve probably got at least a few of them living in your bathroom, pantry, or fridge at this very moment. Founded in 1929 through the merger

While the matter of what to do with slow-moving and unsold consumer goods is a constant challenge for brands and retailers, it’s also a very common one. That’s why leaders from recommerce organizations like B-Stock are working to develop smart, data-driven approaches that promise to maximize cost recovery and operational