Author: tremendousblog
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A slight, bespectacled man with white hair sits behind a table, going over today’s bets. At his side: a beeper. You might not even notice it. Inside the beeper is a tiny microphone. This unassuming bookie in a nondescript storefront is about to take down the most powerful organized crime…
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In the shadow of New York City, I walked down a quiet street beneath an overpass. I came across a squat brick building with no windows. On the door, a small sign was the only indication of what’s inside: Hudson Space Systems. Founded by graduates of the Stevens Institute of…
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+ Angel Investing, Angel Investor, Hoboken, New Jersey, NJ, R&D, Rockets, Space, Startups, Tech, VC, Venture Capital+
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Austin, already a significant tech center, is the biggest beneficiary of tech workers being able to live anywhere and work remotely: Austin is the top beneficiary of tech-related migration in the past 12 months, according to data from Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn profiles. Nashville and Charlotte also saw noteworthy migration rates.…
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A German Shepherd barks viciously and strains at his chain. A red Tahoe pulls up to a a large industrial building. The sky is grey. A hulking man steps out. This is Barone Sanitation, which featured prominently in The Sopranos as a front for Tony’s illicit interests. In one my…
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+ Cosa Nostra, HBO, Jersey, Jersey City, Mafia, New Jersey, NJ, Series, Sopranos, Television, The Sopranos, Tony Soprano, TV+
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AMC stock has doubled in just ten days, extending a 13-fold rally this year: Investors shorting the meme stock AMC Entertainment are estimated to have lost $1.23 billion over the last week as the shares rallied more than 116% since Monday, according to data from S3 Partners. AMC was the…
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+ Business+ AMC, Financial markets, Hedge funds, Meme stocks, Money, Personal finance, Reddit, Short sellers, Short squeeze, Stock Market, Stocks+
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In the birthplace of baseball and Frank Sinatra, on a quiet street near the waterfront, lie the offices of one of the hottest tech companies in the world: Attentive. We’re used to thinking of the tech startup scene as confined to the Bay Area. Maybe a few in New York…
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+ Angel Investing, Garden State, Hudson County, New Jersey, NJ, NYC, Startup, Startups, Tech, VC, Venture Capital+
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It’s not just about the Bay Area anymore. Indian startups have raised venture funding at a record pace this year, on track to double from 2020: Startups raised total investments of $7.8 billion in the first four months of this calendar year, which is almost 70% of the overall corpus…
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+ Angel, Angel Investing, Angel Investor, Asia, India, Investing, Software, Startup, Startups, Technology, VC, Venture Capital+
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There have been a lot of winners in GameStop’s dizzying, over tenfold rise in the last year. An unlikely one is the Mormon Church, which made over $8 million on GameStop shares through its investment arm: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ play for stock in GameStop paid…
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+ Business+ Gamestop, GME, Invest, Investing, LDS, Meme stocks, Money, Mormon, Personal finance, Stock Market, Stocks, Utah+
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It’s no secret that GameStop shares have gone vertical, up more than ten fold this year. Besides making millionaires of a lot of Redditors, this also lets GameStop sell more shares at high prices, enabling them to raise capital with ease. And raise they did, to the tune of $550…
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+ Business+ Finance, Gamestop, GME, Investing, Meme stocks, Money, Personal finance, Reddit, Stock Market, Stocks, Wallstreetbets+
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This is overdue. Tony Soprano At the driver’s seat of a long black Lincoln, a well dressed man peruses a magazine. Behind him pulls a red SUV. A large figure emerges, walking purposefully in shiny brown wingtips. This is how one of my favorite scenes from The Sopranos begins, as…
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+ HBO, Jersey, Jersey City, Mafia, Mob, New Jersey, NYC, Series, Sopranos, Television, The Sopranos, Tony Soprano, TV+
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Tremendous 