by Zack Miller on November 26, 2008
Interesting how an investor relates to a deeper understanding in a portfolio company after making the investment. Roger Ehrenberg is an investor in StockTwits. As Roger mentions in a recent blog post, StockTwits recently release a new version of StockTwits where users can insert a ‘$’ sign before any mention of a specific stock, effectively [...]
by Zack Miller on October 26, 2008
StockTwits.com launched last week after a well-telegraphed development period. Built on top of Twitter, users can use filters to hone in on the type of information they’re looking for and use a search function to search by stock ticker. Read a quick (if not overly smug) review of the site here and Roger Ehrenberg’s take [...]
by Zack Miller on September 11, 2008
We recently had a chance to interview Maureen Wolff-Reid (bio at the end of the article), a pioneer in the investor relations and corporate communications industry. She is a past chairman of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) and President and Partner of Sharon Merrill Associates in Boston. ***************************** It seems in regard to newer [...]
by Zack Miller on August 20, 2008
Mike Arrington at TechCrunch has a great post this morning afternoon (where does the time go?) about a startup soliciting a private round of investment over Twitter. He’s got the whole scoop but the gist of the story is a CEO of a tech startup recently twittered soliciting investments in his firm. According to Arrington, [...]
by Zack Miller on August 17, 2008
Covestor, a leading investing expert community, recently announced a new feature enabling Twitter integration into its trading platform. According to the company, “When you execute a trade with your broker you can now keep your followers on Twitter up to date, per the other members following you on Covestor.” Because Covestor and other expert communities [...]