Real Estate
Investments
Startups
Miscellaneous
PIDC Fun Facts
100

This speaker is a real estate entrepreneur and professor at IU.


Who is Chris Cockerham?

100

This type of investment is essentially a loan that you give to a corporation or government, which pays you back with interest over time.

What is a bond?

100

This popular Tv show allows entrepreneurs seeking an investment to pitch their business ideas to a panel of high-level investors.

What is Shark Tank?

100

This type of passive income is earned by shareholders when companies distribute a portion of their profits, typically on a quarterly basis

What are dividends?

100

This is the number of meetings we have held this semester

What is 6?

200

This agreement allows you to borrow money to purchase or refinance a home

What is a mortgage?

200

These are the percentages, along with the corresponding forms of investment, that makeup a “60-40 portfolio”.

What is 60% stocks and 40% bonds?

200

Also known as “pre-seed” funding, startups often seek this type of funding from friends and family.

What is angel funding?

200

This is the term for optimizing a website to rank higher in search engine results

What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

200

This guest speaker is the father of a president of the club

Who is David Heck

300

This investment strategy involves buying property with the expectation of profiting from its appreciation rather than from the income generated through renting it.

What is real estate speculation?

300

This is a Kelley Workshop that both of our first speakers (Nikhil Javeri and Sanjana Paramesh) are apart of

What is the Investment Management Workshop?

300

This term describes a startup valued at over $1 billion

What is a unicorn?

300

This is the ticker symbol for the exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks the S&P 500 index

What is SPY?

300

These are the two fundamental forms that passive income can be divided into.

What are entrepreneurial and financial?

400

This is an industry our previous real estate speaker expanded into, beginning in 2020, to aid his endeavors in real estate.

What is auctioning?

400

This type of fund pools money from multiple investors to buy a diversified portfolio of stocks, bonds, or other securities, managed by a professional.

What is a mutual fund?

400

Our previous speaker Parth Patel emphasized these two aspects of product markets to ensure the creation of a successful startup.

What is a niche and saturation?

400

What two investment characteristics did David Heck emphasize during his meeting when describing the most effective method of investing?

What are early and consistent?

400

These two Hodge Hall room numbers are tied for the most frequent locations of past PIDC meetings this semester.

What are 1055 and 2046?

500

This amount of sales has been generated by our previous real estate speaker in the past 5 years. Ranges of sales with a $10,000,000 increment will be accepted.

What is $180,00,000?

500

This type of high-yield, high-risk bond is often issued by companies with lower credit ratings and has a special nickname.

What is a junk bond?

500

This is the exact amount of money our previous startups speaker generated in revenue through his first year of a venture he began in high school.

What is $30,000?

500

This is the name of our speaker Andrew Lambert’s podcast

What is Mind Yo Business?

500

This famous investor is featured on the PIDC’s LinkedIn banner.

Who is Warren Buffet?

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