318: Mark Mahaney, 10 proven rules to succeed in tech stock investing (Strategy Skills classics)

For this episode, let's revisit a Strategy Skills classic where we interviewed one of Wall Street’s legendary tech analysts, Mark Mahaney. 

In this episode, Mark discusses ten lessons that are proven to help investors succeed in tech stock investing. He shares powerful advice and knowledge from analyzing the most explosive sector on Wall Street over the past quarter century. 

Lesson 1: There Will Be Blood… When You Pick Bad Stocks
Lesson 2: You Can Lose $...Even When You Pick The Best Stocks
Lesson 3: Don’t Play Quarters
Lesson 4: Revenue Matters More Than Anything
Lesson 5: It Doesn’t Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Product Swing
Lesson 6: TAMs - The Bigger The Better
Lesson 7: Follow the Value Prop, Not the Money
Lesson 8: Management Matters Most
Lesson 9: Look for Ballpark Reasonable Valuation
Lesson 10: Hunt for DHQs - Dislocated High-Quality Stocks

Mark Mahaney has been covering internet stocks on Wall Street since 1998, with Morgan Stanley, American Technology Research, Citibank, RBC Capital Markets, and Evercore ISI. Institutional Investor magazine has ranked him as a top Internet analyst every year for the past 15 years, including five years as number one, and he has been ranked by the Financial Times and StarMine as the number-one earnings estimator and stock picker. In addition, TipRanks has placed Mahaney in the top one percent of all Wall Street analysts in terms of single-year stock picking performance. 

Get Mark's book here:

Nothing But Net: 10 Timeless Stock-Picking Lessons from One of Wall Street’s Top Tech Analysts. Mark Mahaney

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