Planet MicroCap Podcast | MicroCap Investing Strategies

In this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Alex Rubalcava, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Stage Venture Partners. He started his career as an analyst at Anthem Venture Partners, a leading venture capital firm in Santa Monica. After Anthem, Alex spent nearly a decade managing capital in public markets. I invited Alex on because I wanted to better understand portfolio managemen...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Gary Ribe, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Accretive Wealth Partners, and his partner, Eric Furey, Managing Partner and Wealth Advisor at Accretive Wealth Partners. I met Gary at an investor conference a few years back, and I thought it would be fun to learn more about his and Eric’s investment philosophy and a bit more...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Steven Kiel. He is the President of Willow Oak Asset Management, a subsidiary of Enterprise Diversified, Inc., (OTCQB: SYTE) - Steven is the Chairman of Enterprise Diversified. He is also the President and Chief Investment Officer for Arquitos Capital Management. I've been a follower of Willow Oak for a long time, and happened to interv...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Dean Trottier, Full-time Private Investor and Editor of Petty Cash blog. I've known Dean for a long time now having met at a MicroCap investor conference a few years ago, and been a fan from afar. I invited him on today to have a good old-fashioned Planet MicroCap rap on MicroCap investing, and Dean's journey from turning his investing...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Perth Tolle, Founder of Life + Liberty Indexes. We've had a number of guests on here talk about investing in global markets: Canada, Australia, Israel, China, etc..., and yet, we haven't really covered opportunities in Emerging Markets...until now. Enter: Perth Tolle. She is the Founder of The Life + Liberty Freedom 100 Emerging Markets...

This next episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast is a very special one for me. My guest is Maya Peterson, Author of “Early Bird: The Power of Investing Young”, Compounding Snowballs blog, and her recently released second book, “Lighthouses: Women Leading the Way in Finance.” Her story will definitely cause you to ask, well – what have you done today? But in all seriousness, she’s already so accomp...

In this special episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, Dr. Daniel Kraft was kind enough to join me and discuss where we are at now with COVID-19. Dr. Kraft has a unique background that is at the intersection of Healthcare and Technology as both Medicine Chair for Singularity University and Founder of Exponential Medicine. He's a classically trained physician and great insight on what's going on c...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke Garvin Jabusch, Chief Investment Officer for Green Alpha Advisors. The firm’s mission is to, “grow our clients’ capital by building portfolios that tap into the innovation-driven economy and limit exposure to major systemic risks”, according to their website. Green Alpha’s focus on investing in the Next Economy and looking for companies that...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, we are back LIVE! And, this time, Virtual Edition. Joining me for this conversation will be Connor Haley, Jason Hirschman, Sam Namiri and Maj Soueidan.  Planet MicroCap Podcast is on YouTube! All archived episodes and each new episode will be posted on the  SNN Network YouTube channel . I’ve provided the link in the description if you’d like to subs...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke Andy Preikschat, CIO and Portfolio Manager of Edgebrook Partners, LP. I’ve known Andy now for many years, first meeting him at our conference in Vegas to our many conversations during formerly monthly Los Angeles MicroCap Meet-up sessions. His story is fascinating as he got his start in the financial world working for Bill Gates. Imagine tha...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Jim O’Shaughnessy, Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management. This is a big episode for me. Simply put, Jim is a legend, and I am so grateful he took the time to do this interview with me. I honestly don’t even know how to put into words what he means to our industry: from his numerous best sellers, reco...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Tyrone Ross Jr., Host of the Human Advisor Podcast and Director of Community at Altruist. I was introduced to Tyrone via our mutual friend and frequent guest, Tom Shaughnessy from Delphi Digital. After listening to this interview, you are going to want to run a marathon, read that book you’ve been wanting to read, start that business yo...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Dan Rasmussen, Founder and CIO of Verdad Advisers. Prior to Verdad, Dan worked at Bain Capital and Bridgewater Associates, and also holds an AB from Harvard College and MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 2017, he was named to Forbes 30 under 30 list. He’s one of the leading thinkers in the investing world and I’m really e...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Dave Waters, CEO of Alluvial Capital Management. This episode has been a long time coming, as I’ve been a fan of Dave’s for a while and he’s one the leading voices in our MicroCap community. Dave gained notoriety from his popular blog OTC Adventures, and has since launched his own fund, Alluvial Capital Management. I had a great time ch...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Scott Miller, Founder of Greenhaven Road Capital. While at the helm of Greenhaven Road Capital, the firm has out-performed the Russell 2000 by approximately 25% and 29% net over the past 3- and 5-year periods (according Greenhaven’s Q4 2019 investor letter), and very recently created a new offering, The Partners Fund, which we discuss i...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Tony Hansen, Chief Investment Officer of EGP Capital. I was introduced to Tony via Twitter from Mark Tobin of Coffee MicroCaps – thank you, Mark. Tony was making a trip to the US from his home in Australia for a mix of business and vacation, an itinerary that included attending Charlie Munger’s Daily Journal annual meeting. Since his fi...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Brent Beshore, Founder and CEO of Permanent Equity. I’ve been a big fan of Brent’s work for years now, from the success of Adventur.es , now called Permanent Equity, to his philosophy on business, investing, people and life, which he’s been kind of enough to share on many of mine and most of your favorite podcasts over the years, as wel...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Matt Joass, Chief Investment Officer of Maven Funds Management. Thanks to a tweet from Ian Cassel on MicroCap Fund Managers/Strategies, thank you Ian, I happened to see Matt’s handle and down the rabbit hole I went – I read his recent blog posts, learned more about his strategy and philosophy, and before we knew it, we had an interview...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Yaron Naymark, Founder and Portfolio Manager at 1 Main Capital. As you will hear, Yaron is incredibly passionate about investing and that enthusiasm matched his performance in 2019, where his fund had a YTD performance of 25.2% and 12.4% in Q4 2019 alone, net of fees and expenses – all figures based on 1 Main Capital’s Q4 2019 investor...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Jake Taylor, CEO of Farnam Street Investments and author of, “The Rebel Allocator”. I invited Jake on because I wanted to learn more about why he decided to write his book, “The Rebel Allocator”. We discuss some key takeaways from the book, learn more about Farnam Street’s investing philosophy and insights he’s learned from his own podc...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Peter Rabover, Managing Director at Artko Capital. I met Peter after following him on Twitter for a while – I became a fan of his commentary and insights on the market, and then reached out for him to be on the podcast. Some key highlights for me: learning more about his investing journey story, how he’s changed his approach over time a...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with John Vandermosten, Senior Biotech Analyst at Zack’s Small-Cap Research. I met John recently at a conference in Austin, where we did a brief interview for the SNN Network YouTube Channel to discuss how to simplify the biotech valuation process, gene therapy and trends in biotech. I really enjoyed our chat then, and invited John back on t...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Cromwell Coulson, CEO of OTC Markets Group, Inc., a publicly-traded company, OTCM on the OTCQX. I originally spoke with Cromwell on the podcast in Episode 25. During that episode, we discussed his background, history of OTC Markets, but we focused quite heavily on Reg A+. At that time, August 2016, the JOBS Act rules had just gone into...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I’m sharing with you an interview I did with Dan Schum, Editor of NoNameStocks.com . We recorded and I shared our chat on our YouTube Channel back in mid-October, and I have a couple reasons I wanted to share the interview on here:  I really enjoyed my conversation with Dan and learning about his investing thesis, particularly how he’s been successf...

For this episode of the Planet MicroCap Podcast, I spoke with Geoff Gannon, Co-Founder and Portfolio Manager at Focused Compounding. You might also recognize Geoff from the very popular investing podcast, Focused Compounding, which he co-hosts with his partner, Andrew Kuhn. I’m a big fan of their work, and I invited on Geoff to share his background and to chat about his investing philosophy. We re...