The Big Idea
If there was ever any doubt that digital payments is a big trend the coronavirus pandemic has squashed the argument.
Locked up at home, people have still needed to buy things and pay their bills. Businesses, from car and boat dealerships to to...
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Patience Will Pay Off
This week, we profile Liberated Syndication (LSYN), an under-the-radar podcast hosting company in secular growth that is about to announce the results of a strategic review. Make sure to use limits when buying LSYN as the stock is very illiquid.
Our recommendations...
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The Big Idea
We’ve enjoyed tremendous success investing early in off-the-beaten path insurance brokerage companies.
This success is due, in large part, to selecting technology-enabled companies with business plans developed around efficiently capturing, and keeping, clients.
These companies include Goosehead Insurance (GSHD) and Everquote (EVER). Both rapid-growth,...
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Welcome to Cabot Micro-Cap Insider
Welcome to Cabot Micro-Cap Insider!
If you have not already, I recommend that you read my Cabot Micro-Cap Insider Guide. It will help you get the most out of your Cabot Micro-Cap Insider membership, and make your investing decisions easier more...
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The Big Idea
While the world is laser-focused on potential treatments and vaccines for COVID-19 there are still other other life-threatening diseases for which we need better treatments.
Take, for example, multiple myeloma, the second-most common blood cancer in the U.S. The market for treatment is...
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Welcome to Cabot Micro-Cap Insider
Welcome to Cabot Micro-Cap Insider!
This inaugural issue is a little different than future editions.
In this issue, I’ve profiled my initial five recommendations. In future issues, I will profile one new idea in depth, and provide updates on all open I’m...
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THE BIG IDEA
How psyched would you be if you went to your healthcare provider and they said the following:
“I can make a health optimization recommendation for you, informed not only by the latest clinical trials, but also by local and regional data about like...
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The Big Idea
In the old days, before cloud computing, mobile apps, application programming interfaces (APIs), big data depositories, and all manner of digital transformation initiatives, companies relied on network perimeter security solutions to keep bad actors away.
That’s all changing.
Today, with workers, consumers, business and...
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The Big Idea
Any time you have a fragmented market where there are a lot of buyers and sellers that have a hard time getting together there is an opportunity for a software-enabled marketplace to grease the wheels of commerce.
We’ve seen this concept work emerging...
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The Big Idea
Fiber optic components are one of the building blocks of high-speed data and communications networks. This market gets a lot of press coverage and investors are generally well aware of fiber optic component suppliers for the telecom and datacom markets.
A lesser but...
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The Big Idea
If you want to find markets where purpose-built software can make life a lot easier look no further than life sciences and high tech.
Both are defined by the ever-present need to develop new products, launch them into the market, appropriately manage through...
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The Big Idea
How psyched would you be if you went to your healthcare provider and they said the following:
“I can make a health optimization recommendation for you, informed not only by the latest clinical trials, but also by local and regional data about like...
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THE BIG IDEA
In its 2017 infrastructure report card the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) gave America’s infrastructure a grade of “D+”.
America received the same grade in 2013. That was an improvement over 2009 (and 2005) when we received a “D”.
Suffice to say, room...
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THE BIG IDEA
There are over 100 million people around the world suffering from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a condition in which a partially blocked airway prevents airflow to the lungs when a person is asleep. The typical length of a breathing pause is seconds...
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THE BIG IDEA
I have vague memories of the Electrolux vacuum salesman coming to our house to sell his wares. Over the last 40 or so years, the basic idea of enticing people to take advantage of a “deal” hasn’t changed much. But the and...
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THE BIG IDEA
Back in the late 1800s if you called a company for information you were routed through a telephone exchange and were able to speak with a person that could help.
The last switchboard operator for a hand-crank phone, Susan Glines, walked away her...
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THE BIG IDEA
A few years back the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report with an astounding conclusion:
Most people will experience at least one diagnostic error in their lifetime, sometimes with devastating consequences.
That’s not cool.
Diagnostic accuracy of some conditions is staggeringly bad. For the...
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THE BIG IDEA
On a whim, I recently reviewed our car insurance.
Something didn’t feel right, so I went online and got a quote from another provider. It turns out they could cover our two cars with essentially the same coverage – for half the was...
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Disney stock has gotten a major boost since the company announced plans for a new streaming service. It reminded me of a couple important investing lessons.
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THE BIG IDEA
One of the big challenges for organizations in the fast-moving digital age is to understand what’s going on in their businesses right now.
Look at Facebook (FB). For a company that specializes in harvesting detailed user data and selling targeted ads you’d they...
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