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Microsoft news Microsoft was just awarded a contract to develop augmented reality displays for DOD. The current Microsoft HoloLens system is build around an MVIS micro-mirror display. MVIS is seeing a bounce today as a result.

I really didn't buy MVIS as an investment. They have just as much chance of going out of business as they do of hitting a home run and making a ton of money. The market is not rational and doesn't necessarily reward good ideas that may be ahead of the curve. It's a coin flip, but my...

I've looked at their patents in a past and the MEMS technology MVIS developed has applications in many different areas. The micro-mirror display is one application has the potential to be a big money maker. The Texas Instruments DLP technology has been pretty successful and the MVIS...

I haven't been paying attention to MVIS stock, so pretty cool to see a 11000% return on the stock when I checked it today. Given the size of the initial investment, I'm not going to retire just yet. Investing in individual stocks is pretty much just straight up gambling, and as a younger man...

Glad to here you had a positive experience with NDI. We haven't progressed further than talking to them about some possibilities, but they have tried to educate us about the process and they get high marks for starting with that side of the story rather than jumping right into the sales side of...

I attempted to hit the pause button at work at then end of 2019 and slow down. I stepped down from a project management role with the intent of going back to a technical lead role. That bit me on the back side. Long story short, instead of being a technical lead on the project the new...

We are currently in a holding pattern with the house. We visited a house in Falls Church that was a teardown by NDI. That particular house was about 5000 sqft and had quite a few upgrades. I would need to look at the flyer, but what I recall is that the house cost 650k not including site...

DW went back to work a couple months ago. She is making ~100k, but is not really happy with the current employer, so she is still looking. One thing that was kind of surprising about one of the job offers she received is that one of the medical practices has a two year 30 mile geographic...

Got lucky I purchased 3000 shares of MVIS at .20 and just looked up what they are at today. 2500%! If only I had put the entire nest egg into MVIS... :facepalm: I actually own one of their products. A laser projector based upon the micro mirror technology. That's how I originally became...

When using a couple of online (take estimates with a grain of salt) I get estimates that can vary by more than 200K based upon construction details (location, type of foundation, square footage, fireplace(s), garage, type and quality of siding, type and quality of roof, type and quality of...

Based upon current salary and mix of pretax and post tax savings, fixed costs, and general spending I think living on 80K prior to SS would not result in a major lifestyle change. At present pretax savings includes 401k and HSA which totals about 2K per month. Post tax savings includes 529...

That is my preference also. Using current income to pay of the HELOC is the current plan. Using existing funds didn't seem like it would work out well. The main thing that made that difficult is that other than personal savings and college savings all of the other pools of money are held...

This is something that will certainly require more leg work. We have no expectation of building a custom home for $400K all in, but if a decent single family 2200sf two story house can't be built for 350K with 50K used for moving, apt rental, overages, etc. then there is something wrong...

Thanks for the comments. Keep them coming. In terms of investment strategy I've tried to not be a market timer. Buy and hold index tracking mutual funds with low expense ratios is my preferred approach and the cash out prior to housing bubble collapse was due to company change in 401k...

Hi all, Basic info to inform any discussion or comments Married DW (48) has been a full-time student over the past 18 months completing her Nurse Practitioner program. She will be finished all the course work this month and once back at work should bring in 100-120K. DW was a stay at home...