Tag: Finance
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Hedge fund manager Neil Phillips has been arrested in Spain this week. He is charged with masterminding a market manipulation scheme that reached from the UK to Asia. His strategy shows how hedge funds manipulate markets from currencies to stocks. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! From a new report…
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Every day, founders pitch me on their startups. This morning, I thought “Why not turn the tables for a change?” So I pitched 3 VC’s on a startup idea. But they weren’t your usual investors — all 3 were robots. 🤖 Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! These robot VC’s…
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Note: This is not financial advice. Fails to deliver in shares of AMC Entertainment Holdings hit massive levels this month. Failed trades peaked at over 700,000 shares, according to a report out this morning from the SEC. They remained in six figure territory for all but two days in the…
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Morgan Stanley, already under federal investigation in the US, is now facing another probe. This time, it’s in Korea. From a report that broke last night on Bloomberg: Morgan Stanley’s stock short selling practices are being inspected by South Korea as part of a broader effort by the nation’s financial…
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Mark Twain is one of the greatest American authors. But not many people know he was also a venture capitalist. A phenomenally bad one. Twain lost the equivalent of nearly $10 million* in a single investment: the Paige Compositor. Invented by James Paige, it was one of the first typesetting…
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It didn’t take long for Adam Neumann to find controversy. Before starting his new residential real estate startup Flow, Neumann made a big investment in a company that’s suspiciously similar. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! From an excellent report out yesterday in Forbes: When staff at real estate startup…
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In 2007, venture capitalist John Doerr met an intriguing young entrepreneur. His name was Elon Musk. Musk pitched Doerr on investing in his new car company, Tesla. Doerr passed. The mistake cost him billions. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! The legendary investor opened up on this major regret in…
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Note: This is not financial advice This morning, new preferred shares of AMC Entertainment Holdings debuted on the New York Stock Exchange. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Interestingly, the new shares (ticker symbol APE) have the same ownership interest and rights as normal AMC shares. But as I write…
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How do angels and VC’s choose companies to invest in? Why do some founders struggle in fundraising? Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! I dug into all that and more recently with Travis King, co-founder of Launch Point Labs. Some interesting points: 2:42: How I choose companies to invest in…
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It’s been a rough August. And it’s not over. Short sellers in shares of AMC Entertainment Holdings have lost $653 million so far this month. From a new Bloomberg report: Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Bets against meme stocks like AMC and GameStop blew up hedge fund Melvin Capital…
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