How to Spot the Next Starbucks, Whole Foods, Walmart, or McDonald's Before its Shares Explode

Everyone knows the basic golden rule of investing: "Buy Low, Sell High," but how many of us ever really understand the stock market, how to recognize the "next big thing," and how to capitalize off of it once you do? ...the truth is not many or we'd all be millionaires.

It seems like early investors in big companies like Facebook and Google had to have won the lottery of investing and just gotten really lucky, but there's more to it than that. There's a science to the "Next Big Thing" stra...