The anatomy of a long-term investment; Stamps.com case study

This is an episode where we dissect the anatomy of a long-term investment using Stamps.com's case study. Most long-term investments share a few characteristics. Some are logical, and some are counter-intuitive. But, knowing what's common among the companies worthy of a point in your long-term portfolio will help you avoid panic-selling when the stock market and the companies in your portfolio experience a price-fall. Talking about a stock price-fall, Stamps.com is such a company.

In this episode, we again have the pleasure of hosting Jeffrey Leichenger whom you may remember from the earlier episodes. We also appreciate Scott M. Wright, who is a long-time Stamps.com's customer and we found him on the company's Facebook page. He agreed to share his experience with Stamps.com's products and services. We also used the public video interview with Stamps.com's employee, Carlos, on the company's YouTube channel. Here is a detail list of the sources we used to produce this episode: 

• Stamps.com's YouTube channel
• Wikipedia's Stamp.com's page
• Interview with Carlos, one of Stamps.com's customer care agents
• the fan YouTube channel
• Stamps.com's Q3 Quarterly Earnings call from the company's investor relations page
• Interview with Warren Buffet on CNBC's YouTube Channel
• All Soundbite are downloaded from Freesound.org