From David Jackson, Seeking Alpha‘s founder and CEO: After eight months in development, I’m thrilled to officially launch Seeking Alpha’s Investing Applications today and tell you a bit about why we launched them. Investing Apps are professional-grade tools to research stocks, and manage, track and analyze your investments. These apps are provided by other companies [...]
As reported yesterday, Seeking Alpha, the largest aggregator of financial content from blogs, asset managers and investment newsletters, raised another round of funding yesterday. The raise of $7 million represents a B round financing from existing investors, Accel and Benchmark, along with new investor DAG. There’s been speculation about what Seeking Alpha’s going to do [...]
by Zack Miller on February 2, 2009
There are many new faces on the scene in online finance. As we move away from mere trading platforms and portals to more social media-like applications, we’ve taken a stab to enumerate some of the top thinkers/movers/entrepreneurs in the space to keep tabs on. I used a variety of slippery factors like vision and influence [...]
by Zack Miller on December 7, 2008
What do you think of when I mention “investment newsletter”? Many will answer referencing the numerous emails (spam?) they receive on a daily basis with information “that’s guaranteed to triple your money!” While that’s a preposterous boast, I think the most important thing to do when starting a financial newsletter business is picking the theme [...]
by Zack Miller on September 24, 2008
Covestor, a leading investment expert community site, announced yesterday that they have begun a program where Covestor members can write articles to appear on TheStreet.com site. These articles, after passing through an editorial filter, will appear in The Street Picks section on the large financial media site. In addition to expert content cross-posted to TheStreet’s [...]
by Zack Miller on July 27, 2008
Barron’s (sorry, it’s behind a pay wall) profiled blogger/analyst TraderMark in an article entitled ‘A New Kind of Fund Manager‘ this weekend. With a ‘New Rules‘ twist, TraderMark runs his website, FundmyMutualFund.com, in an effort to raise $7M from readers. In addition to being an excellent blogger with an unbelievable amount of transparency into his [...]
by Zack Miller on July 6, 2008
Steve Rubel is pondering the future of offline (ie. print) media as inflation soars. In fact, he suggests that print media may experience a perfect storm of decreased readership and increased production and distribution costs. Layer a growing sensitivity to the environmental impact of print and Rubel thinks that the growing minions of 3G phones, [...]