I am a big believer in the idea of fractional shares. Our fund Social Leverage has made a few seed investments in the personal investing space that speculate on the idea that fractional share investing for the individual will be a mainstream offering. One is Sparkfin and another is Etoro. Maybe Robinhood will look at …

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Yesterday, Robinhood (the mobile free trading stock app) launched Robinhood Gold. Here is a Techcrunch article that has more snark and also chose to shout out the more famous name investors in the article (Social Leverage has invested in the Seed, Series A and Series B). I have been using Robinhood Gold as part of …

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For a long time I’ve had friends call me Lucky Lindzon. I do think I’m lucky, but I also think you make your own luck.  Last Sunday I was on a flight from Phoenix to San Francisco on my way to Bandon Dunes and I ran into some very old/great friends I had not seen …

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Rumors on Friday pegged Salesforce ($CRM) as a Twitter ($TWTR) suitor. Forgetting the math and the fact that Twitter TV/Media is a direction that does not seem to fit with Salesforce…why? Salesforce mission (on their homepage) is to help companies find, win and keep customers. Twitter is an incredible lead generation engine and marketing tool …

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It’s so on … As I wrote last week on my blog , Twitter TV changed the trajectory for Twitter. Its unique. It might not lead to fast growth but they executed it well. The one problem with the launch is the stock did not move. Even with the press and the excellent release, Twitter’s …

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Burton Malkiel is not just any old investing fart. He published ‘A Random Walk Down Wall Street’ over 40 years ago. I’ve always said CNBC should just broadcast a group of monkeys throwing darts all day and ratings would soar, but like Burton, I am misunderstood. After 40 years, Burton is finally universally loved. Bloomberg …

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In March 2000 when the Nasdaq last hit all-time highs… My grandmothers were day trading; Microsoft’s software was eating the world and giving us indigestion; Donald Trump was only bankrupt twice; Mark Zuckerberg was 15. Today the Nasdaq closed back at all-time highs and… A grandmother runs the Federal Reserve; People have Apple and Google …

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Profits still drive markets long term. Case in point today … pizza and software. If you asked 100 random people on the street if they could look back 10 years and buy Domino’s or Google (which I may do) I would bet 90 percent would pick Google.  Software is eating the world but Domino’s has …

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Twitter launched TV officially with the NFL last Thursday. I checked it out. Like most people I thought it was cool. In fact it’s amazing. Even if I just used it once a month to catch a few game time moments that matter to me in real time it would have more value than a …

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Stocktoberfest is less than a month away on Coronado – Oct 13-15 and this year we are excited to announce that the Cheddar team will cover the event with many live videos and speaker interviews. While you won’t be able to livestream the whole event from Cheddar’s Facebook page, you will be able to get …

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