Which Products/Companies are set to breakthrough?

If I had been asked this 10 years ago I would have said automated external defibrillators. At the time I had no money to invest, but now there are AED's everywhere you go. Malls, grocery stores, airports, stadiums, arenas... I saw it coming since I was going through EMT school at the time, but I never had an opportunity to capitalize on it. I could have made some good money.

I'm still looking for any publicly-traded company to offer some huge exposure to the UFC; haven't found anything yet. IFLI was a huge disappointment, but anything tied to the UFC...I would grab quite a bit and not let go.

Groupon

Newegg is going public very soon aren't they? Dunno, if I call them a breakthrough stock, but they're a great company offering electronics for very competitive prices and their CS is wonderful. Sure as hell beats Best Buy, hell anything online beats Best Buy.
Personally though, part of me wants to say Health Care will be our next bubble.

I owned almost 1500 apple shares at $80 a pop. If only I hadn't sold them at $95. I suppose if you're young enough, looking for a breakthrough to last you through the years may be worth it. However, if you plan to sell these stocks any time soon, go with some more strong companies that will prevail regardless.

Wawa if it goes public

The profit margins are horrendous for these online tech stores; I luv Newegg, but would probably not go long on their IPO.

However, I have a feeling it will be a volatile and opportunistic IPO in the short-term (if it ever happens...). Huge consumer base.

no idea, but there are similar sites (they stole/borrowed ideas from Groupon) growing in Europe and many other Asian countries. Some guy in HK just started a site just like that last month, invested $10,000 HKD, and already generated return of $30,000 HKD one month later.

I almost bought aapl waaayyyy back when they were $15....look at them now..

Some of the Apple should of, would of stories are sad but nothing like this one>


The Poor Tale of Apple's 3rd Founder
Ron Wayne sold his 10% stake for just $800
You know Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak as Apple's founders, but you probably don't know the tale of third founder Ron Wayne. The Chicago Tribune presents the somewhat sad story of the then 42-year-old, who designed the original logo and wrote the manual for the Apple I computer—but got out of the company after just 12 days, spooked by 21-year-old Jobs' wild spending habits and the fact that he was the only founder with any assets that creditors could seize. So he cashed in his 10% stake for $800. Had he held onto it, it would be worth $22 billion.

Wayne's current reality is a much, much more modest one. The Tribune paints a picture of a man who cashes in his Social Security checks, then heads to play penny slots at a Nevada casino. He sells stamps and rare coins to pad his income, has never owned an Apple product, and hasn't heard from Jobs in years. "I don't waste my time getting frustrated about things that didn't work out," he says. "Why should I go back and 'what if' myself? If I did, I'd be in a rubber room by now." But then he adds, "Unfortunately, my whole life has been a day late and a dollar short."
http://www.newser.com/story/91620/th...d-founder.html

I'm playing one company now unilife medical solutions (UNIS) they make pre-filled retractable syringes if everything works out it could be huge and become the standard of the medical industry.

A lot of people were getting excited about e-cigs but there are too many legal limitations around it.

Anything related to hemp/marijuana will be big when they eventually legalize it.

Risk to reward was totally in favor of him just holding onto the shares. There's definitely a lesson to be learned from here, sometimes you need to take the risk when the risk is low enough and the reward is high enough.

Well he was risking more than just the 800 bucks he was worried that Apple would take on too much debt and creditors would seize his assets.

If that was the case then that makes a world of more sense. If it was just the $800, I would have to say the guy was nuts. What if this guy just got the shares though as payment for the work he did? In that case he wouldn't be liable, correct? My sister owns shares of the startup company she worked for, and if they go under it's not like she has to worry about her assets.

Yea in hindsight that would have been his best option at the time or even if they had formed a sort of limited liability partnership. Not sure how they handled that type of stuff back in the 70s.