| Date | Title | Description |
| 24.02.2022 | A veteran tech investor and entrepreneur shares his 3 favorite stay-at-home stocks that can be long-term winners despite crashing by nearly 70% in the past year | Howard Lindzon of Lindzon Capital Partners Stephen McCarthy / Contributor Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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Tech stocks soared early in 2020 but have... |
| 31.08.2021 | This company sold a copy of ‘Super Mario Bros.’ for $2 million. NFTs and a Triceratops skull could be next | If you saw the recent record $2 million sale of a 36-year-old copy of Nintendo’s iconic “Super Mario Bros.” video game — unopened since 1985 — and immediately searched your childhood closets for similar vintage gold, you’re probably not a... |
| 27.08.2020 | The rise of the SPAC | Blank check companies, otherwise known as special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), have surged in popularity in 2020 since the route to going public is much faster than the traditional IPO method.
SPACs have emerged in a wide range of... |
| 11.03.2020 | Panic With Friends | My friend Howard Lindzon has started a podcast series called Panic With Friends. It’s about the market meltdown and a lot more. I hope that it turns out to be a short lived series and this panic ends quickly.
Episode One was posted today on... |
| 05.03.2019 | Being Wrong | Howard has a great (and short!) post on how blogging publicly gives you a timeline on how you were thinking at a given time. He’s right, it is awesome to be able to go back and see what you were thinking and evaluate it in hindsight.
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| 24.03.2017 | Fun Friday: The Story Of My Avatar | I got this tweet today:
@fredwilson have you ever told the story of your profile pic?
— Jim Christie (@jamechristie) March 24, 2017
The answer is yes I have but it was eight years ago. I thought it would be fun to re-run that post.
Here is ... |
| 24.01.2017 | New StockTwits CEO Looks to Expand Share of Investor Community | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If you do a Google search for AAPL, the stock ticker for Apple, the top search results are typically Yahoo Finance, Twitter, Google Finance—and StockTwits, a social media comm... |
| 25.09.2014 | A Hedge Fund Manager, Nas, Snoop Dog And Jared Leto Are All Investors In This New Trading App | Vivien Killilea/Getty Images
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Howard Lindzon has made a lot of money trading for other people as a hedge fund manager.
Now he's putting nearly $1 million dollars behind Robinhood, an app that lets people trade stocks whenever they... |
| 04.03.2014 | The Pro-Rata Participation Right | I’ve touched on this subject before. It is one the “three things you must have in a venture investment“.
The “pro-rata right” is the right to continue to participate in future rounds so that you can maintain your ownership. Let’s make it co... |
| 02.03.2014 | The Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report Letter | On Friday, Berkshire Hathaway published their annual report. I always like to read the shareholder letter that fronts the report. It is available here.
The Gotham Gal and I are not, and have never been, shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway. I... |
| 12.11.2013 | My Avatar | My friend Howard is in town and he's going to come by my office today to see me. It got me thinking about the good old days at Wallstrip and all the fun we had. And how that led to the avatar I use here and everywhere else on the web. So I ... |
| 03.12.2012 | Blog Advertising Service Skyscraper Raises $500K Seed Round Led By Howard Lindzon And Tom Peterson Of Social Leverage | Skyscraper, the recently launched service that aims to make direct ad sales easier for bloggers, just announced that it has raised a $500,000 seed round led by Stocktwits founder and CEO Howard Lindzon and Tom Peterson of Social Leverage. T... |
| 31.07.2012 | With clickable ticker symbols, Twitter borrows a 4-year-old idea | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Ticker symbols as clickable hashtags. StockTwits ... |
| 31.07.2012 | Booting Up: The Indian Blackout Edition | Good morning, sunshine! (Photo: flickr.com/globochem)
Before bitching about anything tech-related today, please remember that 670 million people are currently without power in India. [Reuters]
The iPhone almost didn’t make it out of develop... |
| 31.07.2012 | Twitter Unveils Clickable Stock Tags (e.g. $FB) | Starting today, when you’re talking about a publicly-traded company on Twitter, make sure you remember to use their new clickable stock tag.
It’s also being called a “Cashtag,” by some Twitter users. Whatever you call it, Twitter’s new hash... |
| 30.07.2012 | Videolicious Raises $1.4M to Give Everyone The Power to Pitch | Just about everything online these days, be it products or services, comes with a video either explaining, selling or showcasing. All those videos have to get made somehow, and there’s no way, both in terms of budget and in terms of availab... |
| 30.07.2012 | Videolicious Relaunches Its App For Mobile Video Editing, Raises $1.4 Million From Amazon And Others | Last year, we wrote about an app called Videolicious designed to quickly let users create videos without having any editing expertise. The startup has been refining its app since then, and just released a new version to improve automatic vi... |
| 08.11.2011 | Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup | Launchpad LA today announces it will accept applications for its third class of Los Angeles-based tech startups. There are significant VC commitments (listed below) – every entering company will get $50,000 in funding, mentorship from top V... |
| 15.04.2011 | Investment banks could be Silicon Valley’s new best friend | Could Silicon Valley be the next playground for investment bankers with imagination?
The opportunity that is being created in the secondary markets to involve large investment banks with later stage companies is intriguing and potentially a... |
| 07.03.2011 | The Facebook Bureau | This past weekend, I saw the film The Adjustment Bureau. It’s an entertaining movie — not great, but sort of fun and interesting. The plot (and I’m not giving anything away that the trailer doesn’t) involves a man who stumbles upon a shocki... |
| 11.12.2010 | The Present and The Future | Howard Lindzon has been asking people to think about The Next Ten Years. He says:
Few of us are thinking of the next TEN years. It’s hard not to get excited and short term distracted with Twitter, Groupon and Facebook adding billions in val... |
| 30.11.2010 | The AVC Network | Disqus (a portfolio company of USV) has rolled out a really sweet analytics service as part of its "add ons" that were released a few weeks ago. You get the analytics as part of every add on package, including the $19/month Plus s... |
| 19.10.2010 | StockTwits raises $4M more for real-time investor community | New York-based StockTwits, a site which bills itself as a real-time community for stock-market investors, announced today it has raised $4 million in funding.
The site, which started in 2008 as a simple filter for stock-related tweets on Tw... |
| 14.05.2010 | How Ticketfly Emerged from a Corporate Innovation Traffic Jam | Ticketfly, a startup that helps concert promoters leverage social media and sell tickets, announced earlier this week that it has raised $3 million in Series A funding from various firms and angels. Co-founded by Dan Teree and Andrew Dreski... |
| 07.05.2010 | The Market Plunge | Yesterday the stock market dropped almost 1,000 points intraday before rebounding late in the day. Does this matter to the world of entrepreneurship and startups? Yes and No.
I’m no expert in the stock market but I read a bunch of experts b... |
| 18.02.2010 | StockTwits Evolves, Becomes Must Use Site For Traders | It was only a few months ago that StockTwits, a real time platform for stock traders to share information, broke away from Twitter and forged ahead on its own. Part of that separation was the creation of a desktop AIR application that creat... |
| 12.01.2010 | Ok You Luddites, Time To Chill Out On Facebook Over Privacy | In 2004 everyone freaked out when Gmail launched because Google would be reading your emails to figure out what ads to serve you. “Privacy advocates objected to the advertising model, which involves Google’s robot eyes scanning every e-mail... |
| 20.11.2009 | The Story Of My Avatar | I saw this tweet when I got up this morning:
hey @fredwilson – whats the story behind ur avatar?
While longtime readers know it, I figure many of you don't. So here it goes.
Starting about four years ago, Howard Lindzon started commenting a... |
| 17.10.2009 | Blog Stars | We had a discussion about "blog stars" in the comments to my post yesterday. Kid Mercury has been saying for as long I recall that niche communities are the future of the Internet. And he believes that niche communities are led by... |
| 04.09.2009 | bit.ly launches even shorter URL shortener j.mp | Name-shortening service bit.ly is Twitter’s default service for scrunching long Web addresses into short ones that leave more room for text in users’ tweets. Twitter switched from previous provider TinyURL.com in May. At the time, a New Yor... |
| 30.08.2009 | Is Speculating On What Private Companies Are Worth A Good Idea? | Robert Scoble wrote a post at 4am on the road in Indianapolis last night proclaiming that Twitter is "probably worth $5bn to $10bn." This is not the first time that someone has used a blog post to speculate on what a private compa... |
| 21.06.2009 | Friday's Chat With Howard | My friend Howard Lindzon asked me to show up at 9am and do a live chat while the market opened on Friday morning. It's part of the Stocktwits video channel. We covered a wide range of topics, including TheStreet.com, my best and worst inves... |
| 18.05.2009 | StockTwits raises $800K more for Twitter stockpicking | StockTwits, a startup that helps you see people’s stock-related comments on microblogging service Twitter, has raised a first round of venture funding. It’s a relatively small round — $800,000, the same size as the company’s angel funding, ... |
| 17.05.2009 | Youtubing | Yesterday afternoon Josh and his friend Harry were hanging out after coming back from playing basketball all morning.
They were on the couch in the family room but the TV wasn't on. They had the kitchen laptop on the couch with them and wer... |
| 29.04.2009 | 10 lessons from a failed startup | A year and a half ago, my co-founder Dev Nag and I started an internet TV network for games called PlayCafe. Our ambitious plan was to run highly interactive game shows in which everyone was a contestant. Players could watch our hosts, answ... |
| 26.04.2009 | Blogrollr Two Months Later - My Top Ten | Back in February, I wrote a post asking for a new kind of blogroll. I wanted a blogroll that implicitly determines what I read and shows that. Two days later, I had my request answered and launched Blogrollr on this blog.
Blogrollr is exact... |
| 25.02.2009 | Howard Lindzon and Friends Launch New Investment Fund for Social Apps | Howard Lindzon, a hedge fund trader who created the high-profile short video show Wallstrip and then sold it to CBS, today launched a new fund to invest in social applications. The eight-person group is called Social Leverage, LLC and will ... |
| 09.02.2009 | When Greed Is Good | For those of my generation, Gordon Gekko is the ultimate Wall Street caricature. Oliver Stone's movie Wall Street, in which Gordon is the main character, came out in 1987, just as I was getting out of business school and starting my career ... |
| 04.02.2009 | Profile Pictures and Online Identity | I was moving around my twitter account this morning, looking at my timeline, my direct messages, my recent followers, and the people I follow. I started looking carefully at all the avatars and thinking about the people behind them. The ima... |
| 22.01.2009 | Tweetdeck confirms $0.5m Angel funding round | UK-based Tweetdeck, probably the best desktop application to date for tracking your Twitter feeds, has completed the funding round hinted at recently. The funding will come it at just under $500,000. As expected, Betaworks is leading the in... |
| 07.01.2009 | Selling Apple and Google Today | I posted quite a bit late last year about the fact that I was actively buying Google, Apple, and Amazon during the market meltdown. From late september until thanksgiving, I bought these stocks four or five times as they dropped their late ... |
| 17.12.2008 | StockTwits Gets Stocked | My friends Howard and Roger have teamed up once again, this time to fund StockTwits, the stock service built on top of Twitter.
Roger’s got a great post on his blog about it in which he calls stocktwits (and other services like it) "a ... |
| 25.11.2008 | Making Twitter Smarter | Soren and Howard have been busy building out stocktwits and today they sent me a link to a firefox extension that makes twitter a bit smarter. When you add the stocktwits extension to firefox, a stock tweet will look like this:
Those ticker... |
| 17.10.2008 | Talking Stocks | I was reading MG Siegler’s post on Twittter’s organizational changes this morning and came across this comment:
Yeah, it’ll be interesting to see what people talk about when the elections are over. Women’s fashion?
Originally posted as a co... |
| 07.10.2008 | Is 'freemium' dead? | A look at free vs paid business models
My friend Howard was visiting me a few weeks ago and he said to me "free is over, I am only investing in services that customers pay for". He said "freemium is dead". I reminded him... |
| 06.10.2008 | Free Vs Paid | My friend Howard was visiting me a few weeks ago and he said to me "free is over, I am only investing in services that customers pay for". He said "freemium is dead". I reminded him that freemium is a paid model, but he ... |
| 20.09.2008 | Shooting The Messenger | Image by Getty Images via Daylife
I’ve been uncomfortable with the "no shorting" rules that the gov’t put in place thursday night. I couldn’t really articulate my discomfort with them, but my buddies Howard and Roger have done it ... |
| 17.09.2008 | Being Contrarian | Image by Getty Images via Daylife
I remember my speculative markets professor at Wharton used to say that you can’t make money doing the same thing everyone else is doing. That made sense to me and I’ve had a contrarian bent ever since. My ... |
| 12.08.2008 | Disqus version 2 addresses concerns and improves capabilities | You’ve probably noticed that the comments on this site aren’t your typical WordPress-run blog default comments. Instead, they’re run by a third party startup called Disqus. We use this because not only does it offer nice avatars and threade... |
| 27.03.2008 | Thoughts On Online Video | Remember back in 2006, I used to write about online video and youtube all the time. I used to embed a lot of video in the blog. I invested personally in Wallstrip and leaned a lot about online video with that.
YouTube was sold to Google, Wa... |
| 21.02.2008 | Friends | I told the Gotham Gal that I was going to get together with a friend from London next week. She asked me who. I told her his name. She said, “how can he be your friend if I’ve never heard of him?”
Good question. But the truth is that I have... |
| 22.01.2008 | Attention Stock Bloggers – Here’s A Great Way To Make Some Money | I’ve been an investor in a company called Alacra for almost 10 years, via the Flatiron Partners portfolio. Alacra has a database of premium financial content that includes equity and credit research, merger and acquisition data, market rese... |
| 29.10.2007 | Posting From The "Sad-assed Backwater" | I posted this quote today on my tumblog with the tumblr bookmarklet:
John Heilemann, who wrote the piece in NY Mag, wanted to know why it didn’t get on the "main stage" (that being this blog). Truth be told, it’s just too easy to ... |
| 28.09.2007 | The Third Annual Podcast and New Media Expo Is This Weekend | The third annual Podcast and New Media Expo, formerly known as the Portable Media Expo, started today in Ontario, California and runs through the weekend. The event has become a favorite of podcasters and video creators from all over the wo... |
| 27.08.2007 | Can You Make Money Blogging? | The answer to that questions is of course you can. I still love Howard using that question to announce the sale of Wallstrip. And that also points out that blogging pays its dividends a bit less directly than straight publishing. Sure you c... |
| 10.07.2007 | Sicko (Due Diligence) | Even though I really disliked the movie, I have been thinking a lot about the health care mess we are in.
So like Michael Moore, I decided to talk to some Canadians. I had the opportunity to have dinner with three of them last night althoug... |
| 22.05.2007 | Wallstrip acquired by CBS | Wallstrip, the financial video site that was really all about just one person, attractive anchor Lindsay Campbell, has been sold to CBS, for a rumored $5 million.
Union Square Ventures investor Fred Wilson made a small investment in the com... |
| 22.05.2007 | Wallstrip Goes Through The Exit Door | CBS announced today that they are purchasing Wallstrip.
Here’s the story as I see it. Howard Lindzon is a scrappy investor and sometimes entrepreneur from Phoenix, Arizona. He got hip to blogging several years ago and started networking aro... |
| 13.05.2007 | CBS Acquires WallStrip for $5 million | Jossip is reporting that corporate focused video blog WallStrip has been acquired by CBS News for $5 million. The report states that an announcement is expected early this week and involves WallStrip host Lindsay Campbell being the next Ama... |
| 07.05.2007 | Everyone Is Buying Everyone As M&A Speculation Reaches Fever Pitch | Last Friday, word of Microsoft and Yahoo possibly tying the knot gave everyone whiplash, as early rumors of a pending deal were quashed just a few hours later. Now, speculation about similar deals is building into a roar, as analysts toss a... |
| 31.01.2007 | Community Powered TV | Wallstrip‘s monday show, Jack In The Box, which I ran on this blog was certainly one of the funniest things they’ve done so far.
So I am fascinated about the way it came about. One of the show’s viewers, Shane from WallStreetFighter, came u... |
| 24.01.2007 | Showtime 2.0 | This link is for Howard and anyone else who loves great basketball. |
| 14.01.2007 | Why I Prefer VC to Trading Stocks | Howard writes in the comments to my last post on Rhapsody vs iTunes:
The masses just could care less about this issue. Check the stock prices.
It is fun watching you stir this up while we wait and see the end game.
I don’t want to focus on ... |
| 10.01.2007 | The Four City Day and iPhone | iPhone
Originally uploaded by Alexandre Lemieux.
Yesterday was killer. I started it in Phoenix at 6am after getting four hours sleep. I was in Phoenix to see Howard and watch the OSU/Florida game with my OSU friends. We had to go out afterw... |
| 22.11.2006 | Partying Like Its 1999 | Numair starts off this interesting post on Sean Parker with the following line:
First, let us settle the matter once and for all – the unthinkable has
happened, and we are in the midst of a second dotcom boom.
But as Howard points out in th... |
| 15.10.2006 | Who Should Buy Yahoo! | I got this comment on my Buying YHOO post last week:
The desk is hearing that Goldman is holding a conference call on the
internet and may be talking about Comcast or AT&T buying Yahoo.
Take a look at its volume.
Posted by: EDorsey
My f... |
| 05.10.2006 | Wallstrip | My friend Howard is a fanatic about entrepreneurship, blogging, and stocks (and a bunch of other things too). I met Howard on this blog and we’ve traded a bunch of ideas over the past year. One of them is a daily video show about stocks.
Ho... |
| 20.09.2006 | YHOOuch | On July 20th, I blogged that I was going to buy Yahoo (YHOO). I did just that and was up 15% on the trade until yesterday when Terry Semel announced that the Sept quarter is going to be at the low end of the range on revenues and earnings. ... |
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| - | Welcoming LiveStories to True | We are thrilled to officially welcome LiveStories and Founder/CEO Adnan Mahmud to True. LiveStories is an online data platform that makes it easy for government organizations to explore, share and turn data into interesting, interactive rep... |
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