On 05.31.11, In Business and Entrepreneurship, Culture, Musings memories and observations, Technology, by David Pinsen
I’m always amazed how few businesses seem to be listening to what customers are saying about them on Twitter, so I was pleasantly surprised to see a prompt response by one last night.
My inamorata and I stopped by our local Red Mango for frozen yogurt Monday night. After the two girls working there took [...]
In a recent post (“Lessons from Instapaper on app pricing”), I wrote:
I’ve noticed something similar, when I’ve lowered prices on the Portfolio Armor iOS app on a couple of occasions (most recently, earlier this week). For example, I dropped the price of the app from $28.99 to $19.99 for 25 hours starting at 11pm Tuesday [...]
On 05.06.11, In Business and Entrepreneurship, Economics, Musings memories and observations, Politics, Speculations, Technology, hedging, by David Pinsen
A couple of columns worth reading on the Bin Laden aftermath:
– Victor Davis Hanson: “Bin laden Fallout”
– Christopher Hitchens: “Death of a Madman”
A profile of a manufacturing entrepreneur in Britain, via the FT:
– “A Bastion of British Engineering”.
A couple of brief excerpts:
I started this business in a one-car garage with [...]
Marco Arment’s post last week (“Why Instapaper Free is taking an extended vacation”) resonated with me based on my recent experiences with Portfolio Armor. A few excerpts, followed by comments by me.
Last fall, I conducted an experiment: I quietly removed Instapaper Free from the App Store for three days, leaving only the full, $4.99 Instapaper [...]
These two screen caps were taken from AppShopper.com earlier today. The first shows that, among the top 200 paid finance iOS apps, Portfolio Armor had the highest rating; the second shows that Portfolio Armor was the 32nd highest-grossing finance iOS app.
Thanks to those of you who downloaded the app — I’m gratified to see that [...]
On 04.22.11, In Business and Entrepreneurship, Investing, Long positions, Market Neutral Investing, Pairs trades, Short Selling, Short positions, Technology, by David Pinsen
– Thursday was a good day for new Portfolio Armor subscriptions. It may also be a good time to consider hedging, since volatility (as measured by the VIX) is near its 2-year lows. That’s a point I made in a couple of Seeking Alpha articles this week, Hedging the Dow: An Update, and Another [...]
On 04.14.11, In Business and Entrepreneurship, Investing, Musings memories and observations, Technology, U.S. economy, hedging, by David Pinsen
- A few more articles of mine published on Seeking Alpha this week:
Does Downside Protection for Precious Metals ETFs Make Sense?
Peter Thiel and the Higher Education Bubble
Did 9/11 Delay an Economic Day of Reckoning?
- As of yesterday (there’s a day lag on reporting), we sold more than twice as many Portfolio Armor iOS apps this [...]
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