Social proof is one of the most powerful features in social products and yet is massively under-utilized by almost all social platforms.
Let’s explore some ways that Twitter successfully uses social proof and some ways they fall very short
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Anyone know the forward returns of insider sales on a 10b5-1 plan that are suddenly 25x bigger than the previous sales after the stock jumps 100% in 3 months? $COIN
Here are 10 stock pitches from January that were pitched for the first time ever (out of 10,000+ pitches).
$PARRO.PA
$7841.T
$AVNS
$ETCG
$ABF.L
$002050.SZ
$RKT
$NREST.ST
$RKSD
$SES.MI
I bet you find a stock you haven't heard about yet. Let's take a look:
@BeenThereCap This is why the argument of “we shouldn’t be spending money on Ukraine” doesn’t make any sense. The US is spending a small % of GDP (much of which is going back to US companies) to wreak havoc on Russia’s economy/military. It’s a massively positive ROI
@Blue_Velvet_Cap For specific niches I think it can be true (small/microcap stocks listed anywhere and special sits) and quality of writers is continuing to improve. But requires a lot more filtering (average blogger <<< average sell-sider)
The biggest problem of venture capital right now is we have made entrepreneurship too safe a career path.
Starting a company should be for the crazy, for the obsessed.
Instead, it is for the rational.
Leave top tier university, raise VC. Own your own time, work on something interesting and pay yourself well.
We need to go back to the ones who only do this because they cannot bare to not see their creation in the world.