James Altucher is a successful entrepreneur, chess master, investor and writer. He has started and run more than 20 companies, including StockPickr, and sold several of those businesses for large exits. He has published 11 books, and is a frequent contributor to publications including The ... more
James Altucher is a successful entrepreneur, chess master, investor and writer. He has started and run more than 20 companies, including StockPickr, and sold several of those businesses for large exits. He has published 11 books, and is a frequent contributor to publications including The Financial Times, TheStreet.com, Yahoo Finance, Fidelity, TechCrunch, Seeking Alpha, Thought Catalog, and The Huffington Post. His blog, The James Altucher Confidential, has attracted more than 10 million readers since its launch in 2010.
Mr. Altucher was also the founder of a web services firm, Reset Inc, which he sold in 1998, at which time he became a partner at VC firm, 212 Ventures/Investcorp. He regularly appears on CNBC, Fox News, Fox Business, and CNN Radio, and is also in his spare time a nationally ranked chess master.
Mr. Altucher received his BA at Cornell University and attended graduate school for computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.
lessBoard Member | |
Corporate Resource Services, Inc. | |
October 2012 - Present (8 years 7 months) |
Owner | |
Formula Capital Investments | |
2010 - Present (11 years 4 months) |
Partner | |
212 Ventures | |
February 2000 - July 2011 (11 years 7 months) |
CEO /Founder Then Board Member | |
Vaultus | |
December 1999 - June 2001 (1 year 7 months) | |
Wireless software |
EVP | |
Xceed | |
August 1998 - October 1999 (1 year 3 months) |
Founder | |
Reset | |
January 1995 - September 1999 (4 years 9 months) | |
We were a website design company focusing on entertainment companies. |
Online Producer | |
HBO | |
August 1994 - August 1997 (3 years 1 month) | |
Home Box Office, TV |
Carnegie Mellon University | |
Computer Science |
Cornell University | |
BA | |
1986 / 1990 | |
Computer Science |
The Power of No: Because One Little Word Can Bring Health, Abundance, and Happiness | |
James Altucher and Claudia Azula Altucher | |
Hay House, Inc. | |
07/22/2015 | |
How many times have you heard yourself saying yes to the wrong things—overwhelming requests, bad relationships, time-consuming obligations? How often have you wished you could summon the power to turn them down? This lively, practical guide helps you take back that power—and shows that a well-placed “No” can not only save you time and trouble, it can save your life. |
40 Alternatives to College | |
James Altucher | |
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | |
09/16/2012 | |
Don't want to go to college? Don't want crushing student loan debt? Afraid you won't be able to get a job otherwise? 40 Alternatives to College will save you money, geet you greater experience than college would have, give you adventures along the way that you will remember forever, and grant you the satisfaction of having chosen the life you want to lead. |
I Was Blind But Now I See: Time to Be Happy | |
James Altucher | |
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | |
09/16/2011 | |
We've been brainwashed. We need to acknowledge this. We need to recognize who has been doing the brainwashing and work towards reversing its effects. Then, building from the core, we can learn who we really are, get success, wealth, and finally happiness. This book lays out the techniques to escape the zombie recruitment machine, expanding our personal frontiers, and finding the tools to build up the wealth of happiness inside. |
Trade Like Warren Buffett | |
James Altucher | |
Wiley | |
02/11/2005 | |
Warren Buffett has had one of the longest and most successful investment careers of all time. While he's considered the "world's greatest value investor," there's another side to Buffett that is not very well known. Although Buffett has gained recognition for his value investing approach to the markets, the fact is that nobody—over the past fifty years—has traded and invested with a more diverse group of strategies than Buffett. Given the fact that Buffett's investment career has spanned five decades and multiple styles and disciplines, is it possible to Trade Like Warren Buffett? It's impossible to trade exactly like Warren Buffett, but with author James Altucher as your guide, you'll come close. |
Trade Like a Hedge Fund: 20 Successful Uncorrelated Strategies and Techniques to Winning Profits | |
James Altucher | |
Wiley | |
03/08/2004 | |
Learn the successful strategies behind hedge fund investing. Hedge funds and hedge fund trading strategies have long been popular in the financial community because of their flexibility, aggressiveness, and creativity. Trade Like a Hedge Fund capitalizes on this phenomenon and builds on it by bringing fresh and practical ideas to the trading table. This book shares 20 uncorrelated trading strategies and techniques that will enable readers to trade and invest like never before. With detailed examples and up-to-the-minute trading advice, Trade Like a Hedge Fund is a unique book that will help readers increase the value of their portfolios, while decreasing risk. |
Choose Yourself! | |
James Altucher and Dick Costolo | |
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | |
06/03/2003 | |
The world is changing. Markets have crashed. Jobs have disappeared. Industries have been disrupted and are being remade before our eyes. Everything we aspired to for “security,” everything we thought was “safe,” no longer is: College. Employment. Retirement. Government. It’s all crumbling down. In every part of society, the middlemen are being pushed out of the picture. No longer is someone coming to hire you, to invest in your company, to sign you, to pick you. It’s on you to make the most important decision in your life: Choose Yourself. |
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