The ETF corner of the Twitterverse represents the crossroads of perhaps two of the hottest trends of the past five years. ETFs have burst onto the investing scene as tools for accomplishing a growing range of objectives, while social media has emerged as a tremendously powerful tool for staying up to date on just about everything. For financial advisors and retail investors looking to stay current and further their ETF education, there are a number of great free resources out there. Below are 22 follow-worthy ETF experts, analysts, and issuers; if you sign up to follow these folks, you’ll have no shortage of entertaining, insightful reading. ETFtrends.com was registered as a domain June 19th, 2005 at a time when the ETF industry as a whole ... Continue reading →

First they hate you, then they love you, then they hate you again / What the f*ck do it take for a gangsta to win? —The Game Conventional wisdom among smart technology entrepreneurs says not to hire people with Masters in Business Administration (MBAs) into startups. Aaron Patzer, founder of Mint, expressed the sentiment well when he said, “When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA.” My friend Peter Thiel once warned a young entrepreneur: “Never ever hire an MBA; they will ruin your company.” I chimed in myself with this Quora answer. At Andreessen Horowitz, we believe that once everyone thinks that something is true, that might be a good time to do the opposite. So, with ... Continue reading →

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Wealth is here if you know where to find it. Jim Wilson/The New York Times VeloTech cycles in Palo Alto, Calif., is one of the places where technology millionaires go to buy high-end bicycles. The store is owned by Mark Richard, right. Fabulous home theaters are tucked into the basements of plain suburban houses. Bespoke jeans that start at $1,200 can be detected only by a tiny red logo on the button. The hand-painted Italian bicycles that flash across Silicon Valley on Saturday mornings have become the new Ferrari — and only the cognoscenti could imagine that they cost more than $20,000. Even at Facebook, ground zero for the nouveau tech riche, peer pressure dictates that consumption be kept on the ... Continue reading →