Troy Prince cold emailed me a couple years back about his Wall Street Bound non profit and I had to meet him. We met for a bagel in Grammercy and we hit it off. He has been on a mission to bring the language of finance and the markets to inner street youth. Like Troy, …
From: November 2020
Founder and CEO of Extend Woodrow Levin Joins Me on Panic with Friends to Discuss Recovering from Failure and Building the ‘AppleCare’ of Online Retailers
I am going back to back with podcasts…today my conversation with my pal Woody Levin who is a great entrepreneur and founder of Extend which is a clever, fast growing product protection product offering. You can listen to the episode right here on Apple or Spotify. A more detailed overview of the podcast follows below. …
NeoBanks…The Banks Forgot About Many Things, But Mainly Their Customers – Stuart Sopp Founder Of Current.com Joins Me On Panic With Friends
It took a recent $14 billion valuation of Chime (the largest US Neobank) to really get my attention on how big the Neobank opportunity is. A Neobank (also known as an online bank, internet-only bank, virtual bank or digital bank) is a type of direct bank that operates exclusively online without traditional physical branch networks. …
The Ticker Tape is 153 Years Old, But The Cashtag and Social Ticker are Just 13 Years Old…And Bitcoin Crosses $17,000 and Here Comes Cannabis
I really believe in the following… The markets get better as more people participate. I have news for everyone… We are just getting started. This weekend in Stocktwits daily email I learned that the Ticker Tape turned 153 years old. Edward Augustin Calahan, an American inventor, is credited with the creation of the ticker tape …
Momentum Monday – The Bull Market in Puppies…And More Great Vaccine News
Happy Monday everyone. As a reminder, Marketsmith (by Investor’s Business Daily) is now a sponsor of the weekly show. All the charts you have been seeing in the videos and will continue to see are from Marketsmith. They are offering my readers a three week trial for $19.95. Click this link if you would like …
Sunday Reads and My Conversation With John Kosner on the Intersection Of Sports Media and Technology
It is Master’s Sunday so I am heading for my long ride and than I am going to watch the final round of the Master’s with Max. I was catching up on some reads yesterday and there were some great ones I thought I would share… Charlie caught me up on the state of Amazon. …
The Fundamental Law Of Early Stage (Angel/Seed) Investing
I have been making early stage investments since 1994. I remember the year because I invested in Mark Scatterday’s Pro-Innovative Concepts and it was a hit and I ended up leaving my job as a stock broker to go work with Mark. As Marc Andreesen says…’sometimes you know‘. I have had my fair share of …
PARTech ($PAR) CEO Savneet Singh Joins Me on Panic with Friends to Discuss the Accelerating Software Industry and How to Keep Up with It
It is fun to have public market CEO’s on the podcast. Today’s is a longtime friend who is also an LP in Social Leverage. Savneet Singh has been focused on fintech disruption for two decades. I am really excited for his current success as CEO of ParTech which a software and hardware company at the …
Stocktwits Chips For Charity – Proceeds To Wall Street Bound
Good morning everyone… On November 21st at 2 pm eastern, please join me and hundreds of other friends (traders, investors, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists) for Stocktwits first ‘Chips for Charity‘. The money will go to Wall Street Bound the directions are below and the link above to sign up. This is a great cause and I …
Stocks Do Go Down…
Some pretty fast moves in some of the darling tech stocks the last few days. Here is a chart of Zoom which seems to be tired of going up. Another one that I had not followed but had been on a tear until the last week is Fiverr… I have no idea if this is …