Archive for February, 2010

• The Brickyard – Great Ideas Can Win… Even in Shitty Markets
  Posted by Howard on February 25th, 2010 at 1:34 am, Comments: 17 comments

  Share on StockTwits If your best friend asked for money to start a retailer in late 2009, you would flick him in the eye. Than [...]

• Basically….It's Over!
  Posted by Howard on February 23rd, 2010 at 11:20 pm, Comments: 25 comments

  Share on StockTwits Such a great title for an article in Slate by the uber smart Charlie Munger . The juicy ending: Basicland’s investment and [...]

• The Economy is Sick…BUT Stocks are Not.
  Posted by Howard on February 23rd, 2010 at 12:38 am, Comments: 18 comments

  Share on StockTwits I was out with my pal Tom in downtown San Diego last night and oh boy the city is sick.  You could [...]

• What's Hot: Intuit INTU
  Posted by Howard on February 22nd, 2010 at 12:18 pm, Comments: 15 comments

  Share on StockTwits It seems like Intuit $INTU is really becoming a monopoly of your financial data.  There are no contenders and with the acquisition of [...]

• Go Ticketfly….Inventory and The Web is Always a Good Opportunity
  Posted by Howard on February 22nd, 2010 at 12:44 am, Comments: 1 comment

  Share on StockTwits The team at Ticketfly.com has been killing it since they started but starting to get some real recognition. My fund and Social [...]

• Apple is a Store – OWNED by Smart People – WITH RULES
  Posted by Howard on February 21st, 2010 at 8:09 am, Comments: 33 comments

  Share on StockTwits I don’t own $aapl the stock for the moment, but my kids do. There is a new brouhaha about the store rejecting [...]

• The iPad and the Financial Web…To Infinity and Beyond
  Posted by Howard on February 20th, 2010 at 8:18 am, Comments: 135 comments

  Share on StockTwits I have not seen or touched the iPad. I may or may not read more and my iPhone seems fine for music. [...]

• Stocktwits Getting The Love…What Does it Really Mean
  Posted by Howard on February 19th, 2010 at 11:31 am, Comments: 12 comments

  Share on StockTwits Stocktwits has been getting some great press. As a Company, we feel we deserve it. The product is getting better everyday and [...]

• The 'NEW' Stocktwits – Five Things You Will Want To Do on Your First Visit to StockTwits
  Posted by Howard on February 18th, 2010 at 7:23 am, Comments: 109 comments

  Share on StockTwits This morning Stocktwits has launched a new and vastly improved website.  It is running at beta.stocktwits.com in parallel to the old site [...]

• What's Hot: ResMed RMD
  Posted by Howard on February 17th, 2010 at 7:47 am, Comments: 5 comments

  Share on StockTwits Resmed $RMD is back on the list.  It went down for a little while with every other stock, but you can’t keep [...]

• Twitter $TWIT to Make Huge Entry Into Web Video
  Posted by Howard on February 16th, 2010 at 11:43 pm, Comments: 12 comments

  Share on StockTwits Twitter $twit just passed 140 employees (any new employee will have to be shrunk by Bit.ly to fit in…sorry). It looks like [...]

• StockTwits TV – Price and Volume – Interview with Dan Mirkin @TradeIdeas
  Posted by Howard on February 16th, 2010 at 8:28 am, Comments: 14 comments

  Share on StockTwits We like Trade-Ideas over at Stocktwits. We are also friends with the team. Trade-Ideas platform does exactly what it’s name suggests. Our [...]

• Leadership…It Is Not So Complicated
  Posted by Howard on February 15th, 2010 at 8:03 am, Comments: 55 comments

  Share on StockTwits There are thousands of books written on leadership. I don’t read them. I don’t trust books and long form videos about leadership. [...]

• Web Video FIVE Years After YouTube…Meh!
  Posted by Howard on February 14th, 2010 at 5:49 pm, Comments: 18 comments

  Share on StockTwits The hottest thing in web video in the 5 years since Youtube was launched is a site I am too scared to [...]

• Greece (not Grease) and Goldman Sachs
  Posted by Howard on February 14th, 2010 at 6:22 am, Comments: 19 comments

  Share on StockTwits The New York Times is reporting that Goldman Sachs helped Greece pull the old ‘sheist and stall’ made famous by American Bankers. [...]