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Tue, February 9, 2010

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Joshua M. Brown Joshua M. Brown,
Wall Street

Sports Betting Comes to Wall Street

Posted 1 day, 2 hours ago

This one’s filed under Natural Progression…

Cantor Fitzgerald just took over a Las Vegas resort hotel with a sportsbook and wants to turn the speculators there into something more akin to derivatives traders.  I love this idea and I’m surprised it hasn’t already happened yet.

From the…

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Joshua M. Brown Joshua M. Brown,
Wall Street

iPhone and Verizon: The Ross and Rachel of Telecom

Posted 4 days, 11 hours ago

Will they or won’t they?  And if they will, when?

One of the most important questions in the tech and telecom sector is whether or not Apple will give the iPhone to Verizon.  There are all types of cross-currents and nuances to the debate.  There are also billions of dollars on the line…

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Fred Wilson Fred Wilson,
Venture Capital

Foursquare and the Importance of Incentives

Posted 5 days, 13 hours ago


I really like what Dennis Crowley, founder and CEO of Foursquare, said about “rewarding checkins” in this post on Business Insider:

Foursquare’s [success] depends on providing “the most incentive for a user to check-in.”

There are many ways to do that, including the game play dynamics that…

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Fred Wilson Fred Wilson,
Venture Capital

How to Value Stocks: Part One

Posted 1 week ago

My friend Pravin sent me an email last week after my “How To Calculate A Return On Investment” post. He said:

I wish there was a class that I could take that would teach me how to properly research stocks/companies for investment purposes and how that could be made into a private tutoring…

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Joshua M. Brown Joshua M. Brown,
Wall Street

Wait… Maybe Information Does NOT Want to Be Free? Hmm…

Posted 2 weeks, 5 days ago

With all the hubbub over the New York Times (overdue) announcement that they would begin charging for internet access to their content, the enemies of solvency and profits have come out of the woodwork to rail against the Times actually getting paid for what they do.

As a blogger, I’m…

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Joshua M. Brown Joshua M. Brown,
Wall Street

China Sees Potential Bubble in Stocks and Real Estate

Posted 2 weeks, 5 days ago

So China sees a potential bubble in stocks and real estate.  That’s funny, I remember saying there was a property bubble in China just a couple of days ago…

Today is one of those days where investors reassess their sector exposure.  The news that China’s economic commanders have just…

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Joshua M. Brown Joshua M. Brown,
Wall Street

Skype Getting Ready to Go Public?

Posted 2 weeks, 6 days ago

My pal Howard Lindzon recently got me to set up a Skype account with the promise that it would change my life.  He wasn’t kidding.  The service is free so the only reason I’ve resisted this long is that I didn’t think I’d have any occasion to need it.  Howard was right, Skype is sick.  Being…

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Joshua M. Brown Joshua M. Brown,
Wall Street

Should The New York Times Charge Online Readers? Joshua Brown Responds to Jeff Jarvis

Posted 3 weeks ago

I’m a big fan of Jeff Jarvis and his blog Buzz Machine and I tend to agree with a lot of what he has to say in his coverage of the media biz. But I think he’s got the New York Times decision to charge readers a bit wrong.

He lays out a good case about why their system of metering is backwards…

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