Blogs

By: Greg Murrer

 Signal vs. Noise is once again arguing against outside investment, as they interview profitable companies with over $1M in revenues who grew their businesses without VC. Here they interview Campaign Monitor.

Cultural Anthropologist Grant McCracken bemoans the lack of heroes and great stories about capitalism. So what results in such a vacuum?
"The anti-capitalism view is an ideological fixture of our education systems at every level, from grade to graduate school.  We could call it orthodoxy if it were not so much like boilerplate."

Chris Brogan nails it in today's post, Stop Adding Me to Your Email Newsletter.
He posits, "Unsubscribing is the easy next step, but then what? I sure don’t feel vindicated just by unsubscribing and saying, “I never signed up to begin with” as my reason for leaving."
He then continues with a frank e-mail response that he encourages everyone to copy/paste whenever they find themselves in similar circumstances.

 Wow. Awesome post at Signal vs. Noise trashing the glorification of the serial entrepreneur.

Finders are individuals who source finance for producers to get their film projects funded, but for the most part, they are rarely informed about the craft which they are being engaged. By this, I mean that most finders are not “full-time finders”, but merely seizing on an opportunity that they consider may make them a quick buck. Most finders usually have a full time job in finance, or are self employed in the film industry, and they happen to have made a few connections with some independent producers that need someone to find them money.

Blogs provide companies accessible forums because they facilitate the free-flow of information and communications concerning topics ranging from company news to significant industry developments. However, earlier this year, the SEC revisited its legal regulations pertaining to “Internet-based speech” and applied existing standards to company-hosted blogs and shareholder forums, which means that corporate bloggers should proceed with caution!

Today is the start of a new year and the beginning of my new Blog Spot where I shall attempt to enlighten, thrill, excite, engage and educate as many of you as possible to the trials and tribulations of the world of film and more specifically from time to time, Film Financing.

The end game for many social investing sites is to create their own investment management products that link member’s brokerage accounts to the trading data generated by the top portfolios on each site. Today, Covestor is the first major social investing site to launch a stock trading product. It is called Covestor Investment Management (CVIM).