We are working on a ‘Year in Tickers’ at Stocktwits which should be live sometime next week. In the meantime, there is some great stuff to read on what happened in 2011 and some ideas for the year ahead. I am biased but my favorite recap is from Ivan on The Stocktwits 50. My friend …
From: December 2011
In 2011…I Learned That…
We all have a ‘Special Purpose’ My friend Josh Brown does this amazing think where he asks a group of us in the blogosphere for a quip about something we have learned. Here is 2011’s version: In 2011 I learned that… Eli Radke (Trading Habits): when fish show up in a barrel always have ammo. …
The Year 2012…The Banking System Will Fail, Chaos will Rule Financial Markets and Gold will be $90 an Ounce
I don’t believe that, but it feels good to write a headlline like Zerohedge does. The crew at Zerohedge writes some seriously interesting stuff. It’s too end of world for me, but I see links all the time from people I trust and I click. I also get asked way too much for my opinions …
The Mattress ‘Sell’ Indicator…or What is the Stock Market ‘Sleep Number’
If you are looking for a reason to be nervous, I have the best leading indicator of the last 15 years. No one is writing about it. It’s mattresses. Select Comfort $SCSS makes great comebacks (check out the lifetime price chart) and popular mattresses. The stock is back near all-time highs. I don’t use their …
Stocktwits and The Future of Equity Research
When I started my hedge fund in 1998, I loved getting thick equity research reports. It felt like I was in the know because I could get anything. But, paper would stack high and it was all pretty much useless. We had the Asian contagion followed by stocks like AtHome that traded on cute metrics …
Too Small to Fail…Still Cool in 2012.
In October 2008, I think I coined ‘Too Small to Fail‘. The next week, a blogging idol of mine – Seth Godin – game me credit and added this: One secret of being a large financial institution is that you can take huge risks because you’re too big to fail. If you hit craps and …
From Techstars to Filtrbox to Jive Software to IPO…Magic
In November of 2008, I was introduced to @arinewman the founder of Filtrbox, a Techstars company. I loved the product, the team was great, the price was right and I invested. The world was coming to an end and so it would be cool to have it all organized by them :) . I was …
The Year 2012…Sales Matter even for Web Startups
It happened. I finally got a sales call from LinkedIn $LNKD. It only took 9 years. I guess the ‘funnel’ of web optimization and no human interaction is coming to an end for the big guys. I can imagine the inside sales manager at LinkedIn saying to an appointment setter, ‘Who is this Lindzon dude …
Riddle Me This…In Real-Time
I like hunting for LOL’s with twisted headlines. It is a game to me, a time killer. The game is retweets and favorites now on Twitter, no longer just follows for me and I am always looking for all-time highs. Interested to see how the ’embed this tweet’ helps the game. If you like the …
The Social Media Investor Relations Tipping Point…and Stocktwits!
I have spent the last year really deep in the Investor Relations world as we build out Stocktwits for the Enterprise. As Dominic says on his forward thinking blog IR Web Report, we have tipped. Social Media is investor relations. At Stocktwits we have recognized many problems and many opportunities in the industry. The two …