For the past few years I have been renouncing any indication of a tech bubble and instead have been spewing the notion that we are in the midst of a Financial Revolution. But now as the stock market crumbles, the IPO market dries up, as venture capitalists grow much more selective, as valuations of tech […]
Archives for February 2016
How FinTech Can Halt America’s Retirement Crisis
This article was originally published on The Alpha Pages – Real talk on alternative investments, business & finance. 2016 has been off to a tumultuous and unnerving start – well at least for those whose retirement portfolios are at the mercy of public equity and debt markets. The “Happy New Year season” has barely ended and already […]
Investment Red Flag Alert – Failure to Launch
You see it all of the time. A starry-eyed CEO is out on the capital raising trail luring investors with hopeful promises. Prospective investors are assured that their money will fund the next world changing innovation. They receive well thought out financial forecasts and pitch decks dressed up with hockey stick charts. Of course, every […]
Investing Red Flag: The CEO Who Moonlights
One of my recent investment red flags articles titled, “At What Point Does A CEO’s Salary Raise Serious Red Flags With Investors?” – which underscored appropriate salary ranges for a startup CEO – sparked quite a discussion on a prominent LinkedIn angel group. I believe that a CEO’s salary should depend on a company’s capitalization, its revenues […]