Category: Business and Entrepreneurship

What $41 million in venture capital won’t buy you

Revenues, apparently.  Remember Color, the mobile app that received $41 million in venture financing a few months ago?

I have AppShopper’s top-200 grossing finance app rankings bookmarked (and was pleasantly surprised to see Portfolio Armor crack into the top-5 on Thursday), but after being reminded about Color by a chapter about it (“Color and [...]

Breaking into the Top-5

A day after cracking the top-10 on AppShopper.com’s top-200 list of highest-grossing finance apps, Portfolio Armor broke into the top-5 today:

Portfolio Armor cracks the Top-10

After 24 straight days on AppShopper.com’s top-200 list of highest-grossing finance apps, Portfolio Armor cracked into the top-10 tonight, for its highest ranking yet:

Earthquakes and optimal put options

Earthquake hits NYC, BAC blamed.
After a rare East Coast earthquake shook New York City Tuesday, this was one of a number of tweets I saw blaming the tremor on Bank of America (another suggested what we felt was BAC’s implosion).

Bank of America is one of the top holdings of [...]

A record week

A record week
Last week was the best week yet for subscriptions to the web version of Portfolio Armor, and downloads of the Portfolio Armor iOS app, by far. So thanks to those of you who subscribed or downloaded it last week. Between that, a good exit on my JOE puts Monday, it was a nice [...]

Living in interesting times

Last week was an interesting week for stocks, and, if the performance of one foreign stock market that was open today is any guide, tomorrow may be interesting too. Here’s a snapshot of how stocks did on Israel’s Tel Aviv stock exchange this Sunday:

Last week was also the best week yet for subscriptions to Portfolio [...]

For the refrigerator door

The first quote below is from an e-mail I received last week about Portfolio Armor. The writer of it apparently has a prominent job at an international law firm and preferred that I didn’t use his name.
“Your service is a real breakthrough for many of us boomers who, too late in life, are learning [...]

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