Archive for September, 2009

• Deep 'New Economy' Thoughts – AssSphincterSaysWhat?
  Posted by Howard on September 29th, 2009 at 6:14 am, Comments: 40 comments

  I don’t get social gaming. Based on Zynga’s numbers , I am waaaaaay in the minority and that is pretty much all that matters. I [...]

• Deep Twitter Thoughts—-How Would You Spend Twitter's $100 million?
  Posted by Howard on September 27th, 2009 at 11:37 am, Comments: 134 comments

  Yahoo is spending $100 million on an ad campaign. It should spend the money on a documentary to teach brands how to piss money away [...]

• Deep Investing Thoughts…Hoard is the NEW Spend
  Posted by Howard on September 26th, 2009 at 1:06 am, Comments: 33 comments

  I have been selling since the day I was born. I am not a good teacher, but I have learned a few things. I know [...]

• Angel Investing Playbook….That's Absurd!
  Posted by Howard on September 24th, 2009 at 10:01 pm, Comments: 115 comments

  I say ‘that’s abusrd’ a lot when I talk about the stock market. The stock market is an absurd, mystical, living, breathing monster that feeds [...]

• Deep Market Thoughts…Overnight Success is a Myth!
  Posted by Howard on September 21st, 2009 at 9:48 pm, Comments: 40 comments

  I have no doubt that the mobile and social web are in inning TWO to borrow from my often used baseball analogy. The veteran venture [...]

• Deep Market Thoughts – Ready…Aim…Chase!?!?
  Posted by Howard on September 20th, 2009 at 11:51 pm, Comments: 42 comments

  I can totally understand the panic setting in on money managers as we head into the fourth quarter. I have been there, done that. Like [...]

• Stockcamp…Here Is The Lowdown…October 2 Nasdaq Marketsite
  Posted by Howard on September 17th, 2009 at 10:17 am, Comments: 15 comments

  On October 2 we are having our first StockCamp with Nasdaq at the Nasdaq Marketsite. Here is the Event Information and there is still room [...]

• Under Pressure…Twitter Just Made It HARDER For Us All
  Posted by Howard on September 16th, 2009 at 5:26 pm, Comments: 44 comments

  The stakes just got raised in the venture business and the ‘real time’ web world. TechCrunch is reporting that Twitter ($twit ) has raised $50 [...]

• American Express and The Recovery…Does the Connection Matter Anymore?
  Posted by Howard on September 16th, 2009 at 10:19 am, Comments: 60 comments

  The answer is YES. I am not sure where the new bull market takes us…it is a bull market, but whatever new wealth I do [...]

• Stocktwits and Nasdaq Start StockCamps – October 2, 2009 – at Nasdaq MarketSite
  Posted by Howard on September 14th, 2009 at 6:32 am, Comments: 13 comments

  On October 2, 2009, StockTwits will host StockCamp at the NASDAQ MarketSite — a physical gathering of NASDAQ Data Junkies collaborating and networking around trading [...]

• Too 'SMALL' to Fail…Revisited
  Posted by Howard on September 12th, 2009 at 6:30 pm, Comments: 28 comments

  It’s time to revisit some of the posts I wrote during the October 2008 panic. This is one of my favorites . Today’s panic seems [...]

• Mobile…Pets…Biotech…Gold…Small Financial…Pin a Tail on the Leaders
  Posted by Howard on September 11th, 2009 at 6:37 am, Comments: 21 comments

  I learn a lot watching the ‘human ticker’ at Stocktwits. I have learned that Forex is hot. People love talking about currencies and their paired [...]

• Apple… Still Predictable… Still Beautiful… Still Hated
  Posted by Howard on September 9th, 2009 at 10:14 pm, Comments: 21 comments

  Oh man you have to love Steve Jobs…and Apple $aapl He delivered again today with the new product announcements. Everyone wants a microwave of consumer [...]

• Deep Entrepreneur Thoughts…Dow 8,000 or 12,000 – Does it Matter ?
  Posted by Howard on September 7th, 2009 at 9:03 pm, Comments: 16 comments

  Since I am way more entrepreneur than market investor the last few years, I have had trouble blogging consistently. A play by play of my [...]

• Stocktwits is Hiring…
  Posted by Howard on September 6th, 2009 at 9:51 pm, Comments: 1 comment

  StockTwits is seeking a talented Adobe Flex/AIR developer to join our team and help continue to build our StockTwits Desktop product (http://desktop.stocktwits.com). Ruby, Rails, Erlang [...]