Author of Globanomics. Jim has nearly fifty years of professional experience in the development of management information and analytical business decision support systems. Broadly disciplined with exceptional experience. Education includes an MBA from the Wharton School-University of Pennsylvania, ...
moreAuthor of Globanomics. Jim has nearly fifty years of professional experience in the development of management information and analytical business decision support systems. Broadly disciplined with exceptional experience. Education includes an MBA from the Wharton School-University of Pennsylvania, an MPA in public finance from Indiana University; and a BA in mathematics from Hanover College. As a young man, I served as a nuclear trained officer on a U.S. fleet ballistic missile submarine during the Cold War.
In terms of articles relating to finance, economics, and the markets I am writing exclusively for TalkMarkets. I have published novels of both fiction and nonfiction, including: Globanomics, Crush Depth Alert; The Sowers Seeds; Champion Standing, Before Monarchs Flap Their Wings, and The Cold War Submariner (1969-1973). Links to my last two books follow:
https://www.amazon.com/Globanomics-Freedom-Understanding-Jim-Boswell/dp/B09L3RC893/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1636467789&sr=8-6
The Cold War Submariner: Boswell, Jim: 9781661139339: Amazon.com: Books
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You may have forgotten that you earn points toward shares.
Why would anyone pay anything (or issue shares which are likely worth much more) for these crappy, short blog posts that are often only a few sentences long and offer no investing insight. You should be thanking this site for giving you a platform at all.
I like Jim's posts. I find them interesting and very personable. Like having a real conversation with a real person, as opposed to some of the drier, hard finance articles I read here.
Really? That's so cool! What a great idea. Maybe I'll try to be a contributor. I'm not sure they'd consider me good enough, but would love to earn some equity in this company, I'm new to it, but it seems very good. How can I learn more?
talkmarkets.com/.../why-be-a-contributor-to-talkmarkets
There's probably a real good reason that i forgot this. Because no one has ever told me: (1) how many shares i own; (2) how many TalkMarket shares there are: and (3) what the total Market Value is of all TalkMarket shares. If i had that information, i would know a lot more about what my pay is.
Does my benevolent benefactor know what i have been paid to date? I don't.
Lol, TalkMarkets is a startup. They are LOSING money on publishing your work. They've yet to make a profit but have to pay hosting fees to host your work, editors to publish your work, marketing fees to market your work, etc. etc. But sure, everyone knows these guys are unique in that plan to share the wealth with their authors once/if they make it big. From what I understand, that's better than most sites that expect you to work for them for free.
All that is fine and dandy. But when it comes down to it, as strange as it sounds, i would rather own 1000 shares of something with "no value" than zero shares of something with "no value". I am not the brightest lightbulb in the mix so please bare with me as i am still finding it difficult to find out the actual number of shares i own so that i can guestimate what that value will be when TalkMarkets actually takes off.
So you should be HAPPY you have shares. I see a number of people told you where to find this info on your other post. But why not just ask the founder @[Boaz Berkowitz](user:4643) directly? I'm just a lowly user, but every time I've asked him a question, he got back to me very quickly.
Thank you, You are right, Ayelet. I was about to do just that--ask Boaz. He has always treated me well.
Yes, I also had a lot of questions when I first joined. The staff have all been super helpful and nice with every problem I've had. Most sites like this don't even respond to user questions!
Hi Jim, so sorry if there's been some confusion, but the good news is that yes! As a contributor to TalkMarkets, you are earning equity for helping us grow. As others have mentioned, we have links throughout the site and in the emails you receive, about the equity program. But I see from our records that you had been in touch with Richard Hernandez and Caitlin Fottrell about our equity program, from our Welcome Team, back in 2017 when you first joined the site. But I can resend you the intro email we shared, which provides a thorough walkthrough of our contributor program. I'll also message you with some more info directly as a lot of this info is for contributor eyes only.
Don't hesitate to reach out when you are confused about this!