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It’s a well-known fact that “getting in on the ground floor” is one of the best ways to make big investment gains.
But, here’s the problem: Most of the time to “get in on the ground floor” of a company, you have to be 1) well connected, 2) already rich, or 3) very, very lucky.
Simply put, it’s not something most of us have the opportunity to do in private companies or other investment ventures.
But, there is a way we can “sort of” get in on the ground floor — and it’s in a place you wouldn’t expect — the stock market.
Now I know what you’re thinking …
By the time a company does its initial stock offering — its IPO — the opportunity to get in “on the ground floor” has passed. But frequently companies that issue their IPO to less fanfare than a Facebook or Google, offer investors another opportunity to get in on the ground floor.
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Tom Essaye oversees Weiss Group’s Million-Dollar Contrarian Portfolio, in which company founder Martin D. Weiss has staked $1 million of his own money.
Tom began his financial-services career at Merrill Lynch, where he worked on trading desks on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. While on the floor, he managed multi-million dollar equity trades from some of the biggest hedge- and mutual-fund firms.
