Last year we put together Stocktoberfest and it was a big success. A few hundred people from the financial world got together on Coronado to discuss stocks and the financial web. Since that time, Lucky Sort (a presenter) was acquired by Twitter, YCharts has raised a large B round of financing and Estimize has grown …
From: May 2013
Mary Meeker….Pssst…The Internet Is Growing…Pass it on…And What is Really Happening on The Internet
MarY Meeker is out with her awesome powerpoint on the future of the Internet. It’s a must read as always and has some fun charts and metrics. Some things are starting to bother me at this point though. The ususal ‘photo sharing is doubling’ is a lovely graphic but who cares. It’s a cost on …
San Diego/Coronado – The Best Trade of My Life
I talk a lot about stocks, markets and investing, but the best trade of my life was a move. In the summer of 2009, Ellen and I picked up a rental sign off a lawn on B. Avenue on Coronado and walked into the house and made an offer. The kids were at summer camp. …
Thank You Goldman Sachs…
Goldman Sachs ($GS) is using Twitter these days to remind us of their giant hearts. Here is an example (the comments are priceless): 150,000+ volunteer hrs, 9K jobs added, 100% college acceptance rate, contributions to 75 veterans orgs = 1 busy year link.gs.com/boX0 — Goldman Sachs (@GoldmanSachs) May 20, 2013 There are some smart people …
What Type of Financial Investor Are You?
As Stocktwits puts its finishing touches on our new mobile apps for launch next month (forced team pressure), I have been rethinking sign in flow and profiles loading hundreds of new apps the last few months to see how the product design teams are thinking. As I mentioned in a blog post last month, the …
Tumblrnomics – The Winners of the Tumblr and Yahoo Deal are …..Web Entrepreneurs, Creatives and Angel Investing…The Loser is The Middle Class
In one sentence here is the Yahoo Tumblr Deal now that it is official: David Karp says ‘F@#k Yeah’…Marissa Mayer says ‘…he said F@#k Yeah?’ …Tech Bloggers says ‘F@#k Me!’ and Wall Street Says ‘F@# YOU!’ Here is the F@#k Yeah from Tumblr founder David Karp. From Marissa Mayer (CEO of Yahoo)We promise not to …
Everyone in the Chase Pool…Remember This Moment
My pal Josh has a fantastic post titled ‘Remember This Moment‘. PLEASE read it. Obviously I am a huge fan of Josh because of his style of thinking. In 2010-2012, thousands of Stocktwits peeps were uber bullish as we saw breakout after breakout in software, technology, biotech and other industries. I believe many thousands of …
$1 Billion is Not Cool….$1.1 Billion is…and The Moustache is Back
So $YHOO buys Tumblr. Wow. Mazel Tov to the investors. Not that you are counting, but I am…that makes three $1 billion companies in 2007 and 2008 I passed on as an angel…$ZNGA, Twitter and now Tumblr. Actually I asked David after this interview if I could invest $50,000 in his angel round and he …
Overvalued, Overvalued, Overvalued…NOT the Location, Location Location of Markets
In April 2007, I Wallstripped Salesforce.com. It’s in my top 5 fave shows we made. Every time I hear the stock mentioned, I think about making the show and the run the stock has had since. It’s a quick watch with many lessons: One of the most used words outside of actual tickers the last …
Stocktwits Welcomes Premium Ditto Trade Profiles…Deeper and Lighter Social Investing
I get into the meat of this new partnership below, but on a personal level, as someone who loves the social web, trend investing, the mobile web and social leverage it is cool to see more innovation in social investing. With today’s Stocktwits/DittoTrade rollout, I can invest quickly with/alongside lead traders/investors (as many as I …