Steve Blank
JUNE 15, 2011
In the stealth phase , prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists (VCs) start investing in an industry or market segment that others have not yet found. In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud. The higher the price, the more investments pour in.
Steve Blank
JUNE 17, 2011
Smart Money are prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists who started investing in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud 3, 4 or 5 years ago. What no one tells the Marks is that as they’re buying, the smart money and institutional investors are quietly pulling out and selling their assets.
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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 1, 2009
And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. I can tell you first hand than bankers are out making road shows to gin up interest in VCs and institutional investors. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.”
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Today we’re online 3.1 And the future?
David Teten
JANUARY 10, 2012
The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.
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