Young Harry Stebbings in Britain interviewed me for his popular podcast a few weeks back. His key focus centered on the following: 1.) How Howard made his way into the world of hedge funds, tech and now VC with Social Leverage? 2.) Why is trend following a good thing to do when starting investing? How …

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I was watching the Cubs/Indians game and on popped this Cisco Commercial which I loved: I am a sucker for ‘the glass looks half full’ that Cisco chose to use in the commercial. Life is difficult but for me there has never been a better time. I am lucky. I was invited to tag along …

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Ten years ago I started Wallstrip. I had flown around the country enlisting bloggers at the time to contribute, promote and rally behind this idea of a modern opening bell piece of content. The idea was to cover one stock at or near all-time highs and dive into the reason I thought the stock could …

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If anyone can kill the technology boom it is Verizon and AT&T. Even Google can’t compete with them. This from Ben Thompson today: To be sure, broadband is its own special case: its provision tends towards monopoly because the costs to build the last mile especially are so extraordinary, particularly in the face of competitors …

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My friend Jeff Macke who studies the retail sector and loves thinking and writing about the trends wrote the following guest post for me. Hope you enjoy… Howard Lindzon and Ian Rosen of StockTwits have done some nice work describing Millennials and investing. I encourage everyone to check out their articles. As for me, I’m …

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The year was 2008…..the banks were being saved by the government. So was Tesla. Today, Tesla is pulling along the whole auto industry into electric cars and autonomous vehicles. My car drives itself and the banks have figured out why my dog does not need a home loan. There is more knumbskulliness from the banks …

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Our Stocktwits CEO – Ian Rosen – penned this piece about our company yesterday. I am thrilled to be full time Executive Chairman and focused on strategy and branding as we grow the team and move beyond our large core community and messaging. I know the team today has the passion and soul to nurture …

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Our FIFTH Stocktoberfest is in the books and it was incredible. We had over 400 attendees over the two days and we covered everything from angel investing in fintech to technical analysis on crude oil. It was our youngest crowd to date. Of course Stocktwits skews younger than CNBC and mainstream business media, but the …

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Nearly a year ago Justin and the team started to rebuild the whole Stocktwits website. I have really wanted a Stocktwits homepage that helped me size up the moment and the day in the markets at a quick glance. We have a great community sharing all day and the data to make it happen. Our …

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Fred Wilson talks about the ‘hard raise’ today on his blog. This part resonated most with me: One of the reasons hard raises can turn into great performers is that they often mean you are doing something others aren’t doing, you are early to an opportunity and others don’t see it. That certainly was the …

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