About Me

Hello!

My name is Harsh and I am a data analyst by profession. I was born and brought up in India and grew up to be an engineer followed by an MBA.

I have always had a passion for entrepreneurship and dipped my feet in a few ventures some of which worked and some didn't. After my MBA, I started my job as a business analyst. Since then I have come to enjoy working with data.

Lately that love for data and analysis has percolated to my interest in personal finance. As a result I have started on this journey of analyzing stocks and thinking about how to build my portfolio with the objective of building wealth over long term.

I am writing the blog for the following reasons:

Commit myself to think critically about my investment decisions to prevent emotional buying and selling.
Learn and use advanced analytical tools and techniques
Building a sound investment philosophy over time

And I hope by sharing my journey we get to learn from each other; I am open to new ideas and constructive criticism.

Disclaimer: I am not a professional investment advisor and none of my articles are investment advice. These are simply my opinions and thought process and should be considered such.

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What is unit economics of a business?

In investing we often hear people say that this business has great unit economics, but what does this really mean and why does it matter? In this post I will walk you through what it means using the example of a business and simplify so that you can use it to make more informed decision when doing your own analysis. What is Unit Economics? In its most fundamental definition unit economics just refers to how much does a business keep for every unit of product/service they sell. Let's say you run a business of selling handbags. You source these handbags from a wholesaler who charges you $10 for each handbag you purchase. You now go and sell these on eBay for $35 a piece. However you don't make the full $25 as profit. You have to still cover other expenses like shipping cost, fees charged by eBay etc. Lets say you had to pay $8 in shipping cost and you paid $12 to eBay and that is all the costs you have. So for selling 1 product you make: $35 - $12 - $8 - $10 = $5 In business we

Getting Rich from '50% Off' stocks Mohnish Pabrai way

If you are knew to investing and have not heard of Mohnish Pabrai , I recommend you check him out. He's one of the world's most prominent value investors who learnt on the footsteps of Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger. He has a very simple thumb rule to ensure building long term wealth, a little too simple when you hear it. He say's to build long term wealth all you need is to invest in companies that are trading for half the price they are worth with the hope that within 3 years time the market would value them fairly. Let's look at why this makes sense and see how we would build considerable wealth long term with this approach. Consider a stock A that is worth $100 but is currently trading only at $50/share. Let's say we invest $1000 in this company and sell it 3 years later for $2000. This gives us an annual return of 26% as below: (2000÷1000)^(1/3) − 1 = 26% What's so special about 26% annual return? To get an intuitive sense of why 26% annual return bui

The information fallacy and how to overcome it

Despite the enormous amounts of data and numbers that are available and get looked at, investing for most people still is driven more by emotions than rational thinking. A fundamental reason behind this is that most individuals would look at information, process it and make an investing decision all by themselves. Meaning there is no one other than yourself that you have to convince before making this decision. The flaw with this is that you are the easiest person to convince and there's hardly any objection to your story that you are so convinced of. This is especially exacerbated if you spent a lot of time researching the said company that you are trying to invest in. The thought in our minds being " I have looked at so much information about this company, surely I understand the business very well by now. Others don't realize the opportunity that I do, maybe because they haven't studied it like me. I understand the risks with the business and I should definitely

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