Most people think they need to play by Wall Street's rules in order to grow their investments. Surprise. Wall Street may be the worst thing for your future. PickPockets shows you the pitfalls of the Wall Street game and how many brokers, money managers and investment advisers are experts at picking your pocket. This book is a compilation of short blog posts written by financial experts Mitch Tuchman and Stephen Beck and distributed to thousands of investors on the authors' online investment site, www.marketriders.com. Tuchman and Beck show you why the world's wealthiest families and elite institutions such as Yale and Harvard ignore Wall Street. The stories are easy to read, laced with humor, and brimming with practical insights that will educate and inspire individual investors. Be prepared. This style of investing will not fire up the adrenal glands, trigger manic trading, fuel your need for daily entertainment, or support the illusion of having a stock and bonds crystal ball. But it just might change your investment habits forever and redefine your retirement years for the better.
About the Author: Stephen Beck and Mitchell Tuchman Stephen Beck is serial entrepreneur who started several successful companies over his twenty-five-year career. Prior to MarketRiders, Steve served as general partner of Integrity Partners, a venture capital firm in Danville, California. He was a founding investor and board member of Baidu, considered the Google of China, and worked closely with other portfolio companies including Hydration Technologies, a pioneer in water purification technologies. Steve was on the founding team of C2B Technologies in 1996 and, after its sale to Inktomi in 1998, he ran business development and pioneered dozen of landmark partnerships. In the 1980s, Steve cofounded CCS, which grew to become the world's largest action sports mail-order and e-commerce business and was acquired by Alloy Inc. He holds a bachelor degree from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Mitch Tuchman is a Silicon Valley veteran with more than twenty-six years of experience in venture capital, public finance, strategy, and technology. Prior to MarketRiders, Mitch was a subadviser for microcap technology investments for Apex Capital, LLC. From 1997 to 2001, Mitch invested in and advised venture funds focusing primarily on Internet. He began his career at Atari, Inc. and served as an operating executive for several Silicon Valley companies, leading them through strategic transformations. He served as director for several public companies, including Phoenix Technologies and Kintera. Mitch holds a bachelor of science in business administration from Boston University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.