This week I spent a day In San Francisco (at the amazing Bloomberg West HQ) listening to some top Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors talk about the industry and the business of investing. The conference was held by Michael Kim, founder of Cendana Capital who has built a unique firm that deploys capital to angel …

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The crowdfunding trend is in acceleration mode. Today Angellist raised $24 million from everyone but Obama (though Obamacare is sure to slow Angellist down). The space is expanding and morphing so quickly that you can’t throw a blanket over it anymore. Woops – Felix Salmon is trying. Here is his rant. Felix is paid to …

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Watch this amazing video of the Octopus. This stock market Boom is bringing in a ton of capital to the stock markets. The largest inflow on record happened this week. It has taken about 5 years now from the 2008 lows to get people excited. Facebook ($FB) and LinkedIn ($LNKD) were not public. $AMZN (I …

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I am a big believer in the ‘Glance’ economy. I am not sure how digital watches will play out, but I am all for getting data all over my body! I have been an avid watch collector for the last 20 years, but buying expensive watches is boring. I like the concept of fashion and …

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Things are quite ‘zippy’ in 2013. Everything is in 3d, HD and surround sound. For everything else, there are robots and drones. Twitter and Stocktwits are not going away in your lifetime…that’s such a good thing In trading/investing, I learned in 1999, that I was not cut out for the rapid fire, hedge fun frenetic, …

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The web died a little bit today. No one loves the social web, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs more than me, but today I puked a little when I read that Hearsay needed $30 million MORE to help bankers use the social web. I believe Socialware has raised $20 to $30 million to help bankers do …

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Seth Godin had this great riff that I quoted in Chapter 9 (‘Brains and Bandwith’) of my book on Trends. Encyclopedia salesmen hate wikipedia… And CNET hates Google And newspapers hate Craigslist And music labels hate Napster And used bookstores hate Amazon And so do independent bookstores. Dating services hate Plenty of Fish And the …

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I really don’t get it. I mean I get why Bloomberg and Reuters will never do great business television. They need to protect their terminal businesses. It’s after that I am at a loss. Americans are entrepreneurial. We have short memories which are perfect for bull markets, ratings and money. We are the largest exporters …

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The summer is over. There is not much good about that. The Lindzon’s had a great summer and though I love my work, a lot of the job depends on the mood of others. I prefer everyone to be happy. The mood of the country has a tendency to sour in the fall. Could just …

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