A company's launch quickly going sour

Living up to the hype is not easy.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/29/how-to-lose-your-cuil-20-seconds-after-launch/#comments

Bloggers' Financial Return

We're conducting an interesting experiment at FinGad. We've taken popular bloggers in the financial realm and created portfolios of companies they were bullish on. This way, we can see what their actual return is based on their long positions taken on the blog.

Here are the bloggers:

Blogger,
Portfolio:
Howard Lindzon
http://www.fingad.com/portfolios/show/138

Jon Ogg
http://www.fingad.com/portfolios/show/141

Steven Mallas
http://www.fingad.com/portfolios/show/146

Dan Frommer
http://www.fingad.com/portfolios/show/145

Trey Theolcke
http://www.fingad.com/portfolios/show/143

Richard Driver
http://www.fingad.com/portfolios/show/144

Aaron Katsman
http://www.fingad.com/portfolios/show/142

Charles Kirk
http://www.fingad.com/portfolios/show/140

Will be interesting to see over time as to how well the winners and losers are picked by the bloggers. And we will have more bloggers soon!

FinGadmobile

Our VP of Business Development picked this up. I tell him I like the plate more then the car :)

Bill Gates remarks at the World Economic Forum

Creative capitalism: "an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world’s inequities."

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