Funny how we are inundated with drug commericals and the 60 seconds of side effects. Like pharmaceutical drugs, entrepreneuring is not just about the high of starting and running your own business. There should be some disclaimers people should really have to hear when they are thinking of starting a business…I may just start posting …
From: November 2009
Gimme Dashboards
The ‘skilled’ positions make all the money in Football. They are paid because they can : 1. Find a whole, seam, open receiver 2. Get to it and through it the fastest The best entrepreneurs recognize holes in an industry and than build a business as they run through them. You can’t use a complete …
Dubai and Stocktwits…
I am not truly sure how Dubai will play out on stock prices for the end of this week, but with Stocktwits , I did not have to wait too long to voice an opinion, my horror , disdain, and some jokes. Steven and Mike from SMB Capital emailed us that it might be a …
Who is the FOOL…I mean TWIT?
This morning we wake up to so many global financial ‘TWIT’ stories, led by the fantastic investors and real estate developers in Abu Dhabi . Gobble Gobble Dhabi is just one of the global aftershocks in a wave of country specific bankruptcies we will face in the next 5-10 years. Back here in the United …
Investing With my Eyes and Ears
I spend less time reading and watch less and less television each and every year the last 10 years. I spend more and more of my WORK time on the web. I don’t play ANYTHING on the web. I do play Scrabble, Monopoly, Risk, UNO, Rummikub, but have yet to invite a high school friend …
The GREED Carry Trade…America's Banana Republic… AND GOLD
The stories of Greed I read monthly in Vanity Fair are difficult to digest. This month’s was particularly sickening . Our culture seems to be turning out record amounts of ‘sociopaths’. My good friend Gregor Macdonald sent me a link yesterday to Wikipedia’s entry on Banana Republic’s . Gregor is not an alarmist, he is …
FINRA for Financial Television
Last week, FINRA made some good progress in helping brokerage customers : The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the brokerage industry’s self-policing body, said it has won approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission to expand its free BrokerCheck Service and make the disciplinary records available permanently. Until now, a broker’s record stopped being available two …
Make Me Smarter…AND…Just Be Awesome!
I am a creature of habit. I use the web to make me smarter. If I am reading you consistently it’s because of the leverage you help me with in my life. I also partake in a little humor, but other than that I live a boring web life. I let others do the exploring …
The New New Nasdaq on Yahoo's Tech-Ticker
It is always fun going on Yahoo’s Tech Ticker with Aaron and Henry . I am an investor in Henry’s Alley Insider from way back. I am passionate about investing and believe strongly in the strategies discussed. I wish I followed my own advice way more often. Also fun for me to read Fred Wilson’s …
Entrepreneuring
I have been ‘entrepreneuring’ the last year with Stocktwits. I can’t fully describe the feeling, but entrepreneuring is an intense way of life. Are we pushing something up a hill? Am we rolling downhill? Should we run like hell? Should we slowly build a ‘moat’? I know how it feels…same as always…out of control! There …