Archive for December, 2011

• Making 2012 GREAT…What You Pay and Who you Pay Matters!
  Posted by Howard on December 31st, 2011 at 11:40 am, Comments: 23 comments

  Share on StockTwits We are working on a ‘Year in Tickers’ at Stocktwits which should be live sometime next week. In the meantime, there is [...]

• In 2011…I Learned That…
  Posted by Howard on December 30th, 2011 at 9:58 am, Comments: 1 comment

  Share on StockTwits We all have a ‘Special Purpose’ My friend Josh Brown does this amazing think where he asks a group of us in [...]

• The Year 2012…The Banking System Will Fail, Chaos will Rule Financial Markets and Gold will be $90 an Ounce
  Posted by Howard on December 28th, 2011 at 8:55 pm, Comments: 11 comments

  Share on StockTwits I don’t believe that, but it feels good to write a headlline like Zerohedge does. The crew at Zerohedge writes some seriously [...]

• The Mattress ‘Sell’ Indicator…or What is the Stock Market ‘Sleep Number’
  Posted by Howard on December 27th, 2011 at 1:50 am, Comments: 12 comments

  Share on StockTwits If you are looking for a reason to be nervous, I have the best leading indicator of the last 15 years. No [...]

• Stocktwits and The Future of Equity Research
  Posted by Howard on December 26th, 2011 at 12:21 pm, Comments: 16 comments

  Share on StockTwits When I started my hedge fund in 1998, I loved getting thick equity research reports. It felt like I was in the [...]

• Too Small to Fail…Still Cool in 2012.
  Posted by Howard on December 23rd, 2011 at 12:50 am, Comments: 3 comments

  Share on StockTwits In October 2008, I think I coined ‘Too Small to Fail‘. The next week, a blogging idol of mine – Seth Godin [...]

• From Techstars to Filtrbox to Jive Software to IPO…Magic
  Posted by Howard on December 21st, 2011 at 12:00 pm, Comments: 4 comments

  Share on StockTwits In November of 2008, I was introduced to @arinewman the founder of Filtrbox, a Techstars company. I loved the product, the team [...]

• The Year 2012…Sales Matter even for Web Startups
  Posted by Howard on December 19th, 2011 at 11:49 pm, Comments: 1 comment

  Share on StockTwits It happened. I finally got a sales call from LinkedIn $LNKD. It only took 9 years. I guess the ‘funnel’ of web [...]

• Riddle Me This…In Real-Time
  Posted by Howard on December 19th, 2011 at 12:44 am, Comments: No comments yet

  Share on StockTwits I like hunting for LOL’s with twisted headlines. It is a game to me, a time killer. The game is retweets and [...]

• The Social Media Investor Relations Tipping Point…and Stocktwits!
  Posted by Howard on December 18th, 2011 at 11:27 am, Comments: 9 comments

  Share on StockTwits I have spent the last year really deep in the Investor Relations world as we build out Stocktwits for the Enterprise. As [...]

• StockQuips for December 15: Research in Slow Motion
  Posted by Howard on December 15th, 2011 at 10:52 pm, Comments: No comments yet

  Share on StockTwits     $RIMM

• StockQuips for December 14, 2011
  Posted by Howard on December 14th, 2011 at 4:54 pm, Comments: No comments yet

  Share on StockTwits Some of the wittiest quips from today’s StockTwits Stream…  

• Momentum Monday, December 12, 2011
  Posted by Howard on December 12th, 2011 at 9:33 pm, Comments: 4 comments

  Share on StockTwits Tonight I ramble eloquently about everything from $JIVE and other IPOs coming to market this week to social and how to play [...]

• The Year 2012…The World Is a Startup and/or Armageddon Gets a Rest
  Posted by Howard on December 12th, 2011 at 3:33 am, Comments: 7 comments

  Share on StockTwits Because I do not know or care where the Dow or Hang Seng ends in 2012, I find it easy to be [...]

• The Year 2012…Boom Boom Boom
  Posted by Howard on December 11th, 2011 at 11:27 am, Comments: 12 comments

  Share on StockTwits We are still on the tail end of a horrific bubble.  Anyone wearing a suit or anyone that bought a home from [...]