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Howard Lindzon

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Howard Lindzon is co-founder and CEO of StockTwits® – a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. StockTwits was recently named “one of the top 10 most innovative companies in web” by FastCompany and one of the “50 best websites” by Time magazine.

Mr. Lindzon has more than twenty years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. Howard continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998.

He created Wallstrip, and more than 400 original web video shows, which was purchased by CBS Corp. in 2007. He is an active angel with many success angel investments including: Rent.com, (purchased by Ebay in 2005 for $415 million), Golfnow.com (purchased by Comcast in June 2008), and Lifelock (lead investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers). Mr. Lindzon’s new media and internet business investments also include: Limos.com, Blogtalkradio.com, Buddy Media, Ticketfly, Assistly, Bit.ly and Tweetdeck.

Mr. Lindzon received an MBA at Arizona State University and an MIM from The American Graduate School of International Management.

Milestones

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  Howard Lindzon added a position as Investor at Limos.com.
  Posted 10/21/10 at 9:50am
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  Howard Lindzon added a position as Partner.
  Posted 10/8/10 at 9:18am
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  Howard Lindzon added a position as Founder, Co-managing Member.
  Posted 7/20/10 at 2:49pm
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  Howard Lindzon added a position as Co-founder at 140Labs.
  Posted 6/8/09 at 7:13am
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  Howard Lindzon added a position as Co-founder and CEO at StockTwits.
  Posted 5/12/09 at 7:56am
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  Howard Lindzon added a position as Director, Board of Directors at Marketbright.
  Posted 8/27/08 at 9:30am
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  Howard Lindzon added a position as Creator at WallStrip.
  Posted 8/2/07 at 9:40pm
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  Howard Lindzon invested in DailyWorth. (1/5/12)
  Posted 1/5/12 at 7:25pm via techcrunch.com
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  Howard Lindzon invested in EquipRent.com. (3/15/11)
  Posted 3/15/11 at 11:13pm via equiprent.com
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  Howard Lindzon invested in Scopely. (7/13/11)
  Posted 7/13/11 at 6:36pm via techcrunch.com
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  Howard Lindzon invested in Buddy Media. (9/1/07)
  Posted 9/23/07 at 12:28pm via techcrunch.com
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  Howard Lindzon invested in Embedly. (6/9/11)
  Posted 6/9/11 at 2:39pm via techcrunch.com
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  Howard Lindzon invested in Yieldbot. (12/1/10)
  Posted 2/25/11 at 8:29am via adexchanger.com
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  Howard Lindzon invested in Klout. (1/10/11)
  Posted 7/28/09 at 5:11pm via techcrunch.com
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  Howard Lindzon invested in Foodzie. (12/16/08)
  Posted 12/16/08 at 2:23pm via techcrunch.com
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  Howard Lindzon invested in TweetDeck. (5/20/10)
  Posted 5/20/10 at 7:14am via techcrunch.com

Investments

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1. DailyWorth Grabs $2 Million To Bring Quality Financial Advice To Women — Via The Inbox (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Google AdSense Founder Raises Cash From Lerer Ventures And Others For Stealth Startup Scopely (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Embedly Raises Another $450K, Launches One API To Rule All Embeds (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. EquipRent Raises $1 Million for Rental Quote Engine (equiprent.com) [edit]
5. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. Yieldbot CEO Mendez Talks About Funding And Future For Publisher-Side Platform (adexchanger.com) [edit]
7. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
9. TechCrunch BlogTalkRadio Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
10. Investors listed on company site (betaworks.com) [edit]
11. TinyURL Rival Bit.ly Raises $2 Million (businessinsider.com) []
12. Twitter Me This: TweetDeck Secures Angel Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. Foodzie Raises $1 Million For Its Specialty Food Marketplace (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. StockTwits.com Closes Angel Funding (alleyinsider.com) [edit]
15. TechCrunch [edit]
16. Acebucks Gets $1.5 Million For Virtual Facebook Currency (techcrunch.com) [edit]
17. Blog Post (andyswan.com) [edit]