Jul

14

5 Tips to Emailing Busy People (read:Investors)

July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I have had the pleasure of meeting Tim Ferriss, author of the NYT best seller The 4 Hour Work Week, on a number of occaisons.  Each time I came away impressed.  Not only is Tim an approachable, humble guy, but […]

May

13

Start Up Managers: If at First You Don’t Succeed …

May 13, 2008 | 3 Comments

An interesting article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal pointed out that some hedge fund managers who start up and fail have an easier time raising capital than those who never attract such attention.  In particular, the article highlights the rise and fall of Jeff Larson and his Sowood Capital Management firm.
So, let me get this straight … […]

Jan

22

How to Get YOUR Hedge Fund Listed in our Database

January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment

We are still getting inquiries from hedge fund managers about HOW to get their funds listed in our Database.  Getting your fund into our database is so EASY.  In fact, it is so easy, some people cannot seem to believe it.  It really is EASY AS PIE.
All you have to do is click on the special link below, […]

Dec

27

Get Your Hedge Fund Into Our New Database

December 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Hedge Fund Launch is now ramping up its database of start up and emerging hedge fund managers!!!! Do you want to get more exposure for your fund?  Are you tired of databases that cater to established fund managers but leave start up and emerging managers as after thoughts?  Well, your wait is over.  Pop over to our […]

Sep

18

Hedge Funds + Social Media … a Seismic Shift

September 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I reported back after my attendance at Gnomedex in August that the social media phenomenon is already changing the way people do business. This announcement reported by Reuters today is evidence that it is, in fact, happening: 
Facebook and Accel (their primary VC firm) announced that they will launch a new fund, investing in companies that build applications on the Facebook technology. It seems that Facebook is moving beyond being simply […]

Aug

14

Tips for Screening Hedge Fund Marketers: #5

August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment

This is the last tip in our five part series on effectively evaluating hedge fund marketers. 
 What other business interests are they engaged in?
Ask for a description of the range of business activities in which the firm, and all affiliates, subsidiaries, parent companies are involved. The answers could be very telling and alert you to possible conflicts […]

Aug

12

Gnomedex, Blogging Hedge Funds … the Future??

August 12, 2007 | 3 Comments

My mind is still reeling! On the surface it might seem kind of strange that a hedge fund guy attended one of the largest, most well known blogger conferences in the world this weekend: Gnomedex which is run by Chris Pirillo and his lovely wife Ponzi.  The reason a hedge fund guy would attend a […]

Aug

6

Questions for Third Party Marketers: #4

August 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment

This is the fourth part of our series of five questions every hedge fund manager should ask third party marketers/sales agents.
Registrations - does the sales agent have any? Find out what registrations the firm and its officers may hold. Are any of the officers a registered investment advisor, commodity trading advisor, is the firm a broker-dealer, etc? […]

Aug

1

Questions for Third Party Marketers: #3

August 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment

This next installment in our series about how to evaluate a third party marketing firm before signing on with them has been mentioned before, but sometimes the simplest of questions can be the most enlightening:
Staff employees - who are they? Find out how long they have worked for the firm, and if possible, go back […]

Jul

30

Questions for Third Party Marketers: #2

July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Here is the second question in our series of questions every hedge fund manager should ask a third party marketer before signing on with them.  This is a simple one and possibly one that is overlooked because it is just that …
 Question #2:
Request a list of any officers, directors, or management personnel who have left in the past two […]

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