Contributor Biography
Howard Lindzon was born in Toronto and now lives in Coronado in Southern California with a loyal wife, two awesome kids, and a dachshund. Howard attended the University of Western Ontario, and he has an MBA from ASU as well as an MIM from The American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird).
Howard has over twenty years experience in the financial community, acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. He spent the last eleven years managing his hedge fund, Lindzon Capital Partners.
Lindzon has tremendous insight into new media and is a very active angel investor in the financial and internet business sectors. He is invested and involved with over 30 companies.
He has made many successful angel investments including: Rent.com, (sold to Ebay in 2005 for $415 million), Golfnow.com (purchased by Comcast in June 2008), Lifelock (lead investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers), and Internet Brands (NASDAQ), MyTrade.com (purchased by Think or Swim in December 2008, NASD SWIM), Limos.com (sold December 2008), Covestor.com, Blogtalkradio.com, Foodzie, and Tweetdeck, to name a few. Howard created Wallstrip and with the help of a hard working crew they created over 300 shows. In May 2007, Wallstrip was purchased by CBS.
Mr. Lindzon is the CEO of his latest venture, Stocktwits.com, an open, community-powered investment idea and information service originally built on the twitter platform. Stocktwits.com now has its own real-time platform that operates independently of Twitter.
