General

• What were YOU Doing March 9, 2009 …and Why Blogging Is the Best Retirement Investment You Can Make!
  Posted by Howard on March 9th, 2011 at 10:58 pm, Comments: 10 comments

  Should everyone blog? Wait…everyone is blogging! I guess the question is, if you talk about your cat…are you blogging? Can your cat blog make you [...]

• Define #Winning?… and Losing is the New Winning!
  Posted by Howard on March 9th, 2011 at 12:44 am, Comments: 4 comments

  I know losing. I feel like a winner. But, I have no idea what #winning means anymore. Did we win in Iraq? Should Charlie Sheen [...]

• ‘Momentum Monday’…Charlie Sheen Killed our MoJo
  Posted by Howard on March 8th, 2011 at 6:49 am, Comments: 7 comments

  There is never one explanation or indicator that will signal a change in market direction. That does not stop us from trying though. I have [...]

• Discussing Disqus…The Case for Style, Instinct and Less Due Diligence
  Posted by Howard on March 7th, 2011 at 11:22 pm, Comments: 31 comments

  Before we start…I am biased. On of my funds has a $50,000 investment in Disqus in the seed round. I have my opinions and I [...]

• The Facebook Over Reach and Why One Social Network Won’t Rule the Web
  Posted by Howard on March 6th, 2011 at 11:53 pm, Comments: 67 comments

  I don’t care much for Facebook or it’s ‘attempts’ at global domination. Historically, this shit happens. I do care that it does not own the [...]

• Rock…Paper…Scissors…OIL
  Posted by Howard on March 6th, 2011 at 10:36 pm, Comments: 6 comments

  Oil is now trading well north of $100. Even with a devalued US Dollar, this is relatively uncharted waters once again for global markets. At [...]

• Beware of the ‘Special Situation’…The Pump and Dump…
  Posted by Howard on March 6th, 2011 at 6:43 am, Comments: 2 comments

  I have spent my adult working life in a world of ‘pump and dumps’. I have chased a few so can smell them now. In [...]

• The StockTwits Blog Network Is In Effect!
  Posted by Howard on March 2nd, 2011 at 2:06 pm, Comments: 7 comments

  StockTwits strives to provide a platform for investors and traders to broadcast their best thoughts to each other easily, efficiently and in real time.

  Our microblog streams are amazing for this, allowing members to exchange ideas, charts and links and to organize them by tickers and users, quickly and without friction.

  More recently, we’ve begun rolling out a Wordpress based blog platform so that many of the most knowledgeable members of our community can stretch out a bit and express themselves in longer form.

• Social Leverage, Social Proof and ‘Vertical is the New Horizontal’
  Posted by Howard on February 28th, 2011 at 9:46 pm, Comments: 25 comments

  I live and breathe Social Leverage . I got started out making cold calls for a brokerage firm pitching Blockbuster and Compaq shares (R.I.P) and [...]

• The US Dollar is Drek…and getting Drekker!
  Posted by Howard on February 27th, 2011 at 10:56 pm, Comments: 32 comments

  The Canadian dollar, the lowly ‘Loonie’, is now well over par on the US dollar. Zynga dollars may be worth more soon. It does not [...]

• My Thoughts on Marketing and Advertising
  Posted by Howard on February 27th, 2011 at 8:07 am, Comments: 74 comments

  Seth Godin says about Marketing: Marketing is the name we use to describe the promises a company makes, the story it tells, the authentic way [...]

• The Facebook Brain Drain and Google as a Value Stock…Problem?
  Posted by Howard on February 25th, 2011 at 11:08 pm, Comments: 33 comments

  In this market, $goog has become a value stock and I have become a value investor…Zoink! There are a shitload of three year old and [...]

• Stocktwits Happy Hour in NYC – This Monday
  Posted by Howard on February 19th, 2011 at 11:22 pm, Comments: 25 comments

  The market’s closed and we are partying. In a different social network twist….WOMEN will be attending. Please join me, The StockTwits Crew and a cast [...]

• IPO’s, Private Markets and Risk Prisons
  Posted by Howard on February 19th, 2011 at 10:01 am, Comments: 21 comments

  Head over to Fred Wilson’s post today for a good read on the IPO market and private market debate that’s been heating up. I have [...]

• Bubbles…Pyramid Schemes…Chain Letters…Oh My!
  Posted by Howard on February 17th, 2011 at 11:26 pm, Comments: 34 comments

  Mark Cuban is calling today’s market a pyramid scheme and the VC market a chain letter. He has every right to. The market has always [...]