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There is not a soul in the world that I live in that has not been touched somehow by the Madoff scandal. Read Paul Kedrosky’s take on the “fraud of frauds“. He’s got a great read on the whole thing. There are so many questions still left unanswered but I’d like to discuss what to [...]
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Why create new, unfounded and unproven investment strategies when you can piggyback on top of the world’s best investors instead? Lots of investors are using the ideas of guru investors like Ken Heebner and Warren Buffett to mimic their investment strategies or build an all-star portfolio based on the best ideas of leading hedge fund [...]
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Good summary over at SeekingAlpha on TheStreet.com’s quarterly earnings. The author’s main takeaway: monetization of ads getting tougher as ad model struggle: This issue is facing every firm reliant on ads for revenues. TheStreet.com’s CFO Eric Ashman said, “it is safe to say that we have very little visibility into online ad spend for the [...]
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After releasing some interesting new functionality last month, Cake Financial is laying off 30% of its workforce. The upstart aggregates financial/brokerage data of its users and then spits out community-level information to help investors make investing decisions. While not a Sequoia VC portfolio company, perhaps Cake is heading their sounding of the alarm bells for [...]
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