What’s sweeter than Honey? When you own the hive! Honey is a direct competitor to iConsumer – rewards and loyalty. They sold with a reported $100,000,000 in revenue, 17,000,000 members, and $50,000,000 of venture investment. The fat cat venture capitalists won again. Some of them apparently got a 300X return on their investment. Now don’t … Continue reading Honey sells to Paypal for $4B
Cash, profits, and growth are the gods that Wall Street understands. Ultimately, it’s Wall Street that sets the price of your stock. It’s Wall Street that’ll turn your shopping into your nest egg. And why $4 as a goal? Because that’s the minimum trading price that allows us to list on the NASDAQ.
How that might affect stock price Every time we reward people with shares the number of shares potentially outstanding goes up. Increasing the bonus means the number will go up more quickly. So owners need to be aware of this, and take it into consideration as they think about their stake in iConsumer. We extended … Continue reading Shopper Recruitment – 500 Share Bonus Extended
We’ve begun to get requests from stock analysts (ok, one request) for our economic model. Public companies typically want stock analysts to “follow” the company and write reports on them. This helps to drive interest in the company, which generally helps to drive liquidity, which generally helps to raise the stock price. Of course, the … Continue reading Economic Model / Stock Analysts
Jeremy (an iConsumer member) asked how it went, so I’m going to share. It went well. Perhaps most fun of all was an interview Robert Kraft, of Stock News Network, did with me. It was fun, in part, because I knew they were going to edit the heck out of it. For deep introspection on … Continue reading LD Micro Conference Recap
lifehacker just released an article I like on why being an investor is important. Nicole Dieker makes many great points, offers some solid advice, and links to more helpful articles. Of note in my mind was the point: “You can’t save your way to wealth and not everyone can earn their way there. That leaves … Continue reading Investing = Good
Last week we had the honor of presenting iConsumer at the ThinkEquity Conference. Companies like ours present at these conferences for two basic reasons. First, to help support their stock price. Second, to attract new investors. For us, it’s definitely the second reason. As I will keep saying, our stock price going up is lots … Continue reading ThinkEquity Conference Recap
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