The Lindzon’s had a wonderful year. We are grateful. This is what it feels like as we enter 2016: Obviously, I might be jinxing it. I’m getting older (50), and the kids are almost off to college so a big chapter of our life will be ending soon. But, I have to reflect back on …
From: 2015
Best of 2015 in Financial Blogosphere
Stocktwits made a year end video (thanks Tubemogul) and this page for people to make some #2016 guesses Not all the great stuff I read happens on Stocktwits of course. I read Ben Evans and he had a great post outlining his 16 mobile thesis Meb Faber had a really comprehensive list of the top …
Ten Years of Blogging…What I Learned
Over the course of my career, I have invested (personally,through my hedge fund and through Social Leverage) in over 100 startups and started a few companies myself. I’ve made good trades and bad trades, met mostly incredible people and had some great mentors. I started this blog 10 years ago today to journal and keep …
The Year 2015 From my Seat and Feet
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone. I am starting year ELEVEN on this blog and I will spend some time looking back at the first 10 years over the next month. Today, I wanted to look back at 2015 and catch up. The machines had a big year in 2015… 1. We have drones …
Peak Oil!!!…What is Good Research…and an Idea for 2016…
Remember ‘peak oil’? Hint…Saudi Arabia had clean sheets. Venezuela had swaggar. Putin was riding ‘unicorns’ not three legged horses. I remember ‘peak oil’. Google search does (thousands of pages). Here is a definition from Wikipedia (Britannica will crush them) The only people that forget ‘Peak Oil’ are Wall Street banks and CNBC. The banks used …
Stocktwits -The Year in Markets – and 2016 Predictions
I asked my friends at Tubemogul ($TUBE – Software for Brand Advertising) to sponsor the Stocktwits year in video page. I than asked Lindsay Campbell to work with our team to make a year end video that covered as much of the markets through November in as short a period of time. Stocktwits is a …
Martin Shkreli…Just Another Putz.
The Stocktwits community has been following Martin for a while. Mostly through his antics at $KBIO. To get fully caught up on his background the last few years, here is the Google Search and please go do some reading. I don’t follow biotech stocks so I admit I knew nothing about his alleged fraud at …
All Hail Verisign? ….Is The Boom in Internet Security about to Broaden
I’ve owned Verisign at times and am eyeing it again. I do not own it at the moment. Here is a very long-term chart: VRSN data by YCharts The first internet bubble was very very good for Verisign…most likely on the back of domain names. Today they are a $10 billion company. Huge, but in …
Stocktwits and Robinhood – Teamed up to Provide Social Trading to the Stocktwits Community
I love when a plan comes together. Sometimes they do take an extra SEVEN years. When I started Stocktwits in 2008, I would walk into Etrade executive offices with my friend Roger Ehrenberg (also an investor) to pitch the social trading opportunity. I gave up after a few years. The brokerages like to wall in …
The State of the Markets…’Bricks and Mortar’ or ‘Bricks and Morbid’…and the Banks!
I love this quote I read the other day: One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony. You do not have to be Mozart to make money in the markets. You do not need to invent a new algorithm or have inside information. It does really help to listen. As …