Update – It was actually Bank of America that led the syndicate so I made changes below. As usual, making no friends with this personal inside baseball account of things…the banks are quick to point out that Tubemogul is in ad tech and ad tech is a hated industry…blah blah blah. I guess we will …
From: July 2014
Zillow is Hungry and Just Ate Trulia… & The Future of Financial Tech : Podcast 3
Confident as ever that a next huge wave of the boom is FinTech. Great energy as young people leave banks and hedge funds and build product — howardlindzon (@howardlindzon) July 23, 2014 I had yet another mobile moment last week that made me realize how UNDER appreciated this ‘mobile’ boom has been. I walked into …
Podcast: “Yellen from the Rooftops”
An extreme sugar high and a delayed fight means you get an extra, high-energy podcast from me this week. Grandma Yellen, who probably couldn’t even define social media, really got me going on Tuesday with her silly statements about social media and biotech companies having “substantially stretched” valuations. Specifically, in her latest Monetary Policy Report …
Momentum Monday: Chips and Dip
So I’m podcasting. Officially and, hopefully, regularly. Specifically, I’m reviving “Momentum Monday,” the show where I talk about making money. You can expect stock talk, tech talk, and, let’s be honest, any other talk I want. In this episode, I’m joined by JC Parets, Mr. All Star Charts, and tech reporter Jennifer Van Grove. We …
StockTwits and DraftKings team for British Open challenge
DraftKings and StockTwits are teaming up. You thought stock picking was hard, but picking winners in golf has been even more difficult lately. Martin Kaymer? He’s the $CYNK of the golf world. Well StockTwits is never one to back down from a challenge so join the crowd in picking a British Open winner. You can …
Disney or CYNK…
Disney is up 86x in the last 30 years. Slow pokes. For you english majors let me translate….if you had invested $1 in Disney 30 years ago, it would be worth $86 today. I would dig up a quick CNBC clip for you if they had one in the last year. If you had taken …
The Wall Street ‘WTF Zone’… The SEC Should Ban Price Targets
I harp on this a lot on my blog, but once again I want to point out the silliness and awful nature of price targets by Wall Street banks. In December, Goldman Sachs upgraded the price target on Lumber Liquidators $LL to $112. A few shekels were made by traders in the know, but alas …
Web Video Mega Trend Continues, The Future of (Digital) TV… and a TubeMogul Update
How can you not LOVE the ticker symbol $TUBE …and if Al Gore invented the internet how could he have not locked down this ticker symbol? The web video trend is super buzzy thanks to last week’s news that Facebook $FB is buying LiveRail for reportedly between $400 million and $500 million. I’m excited. I …