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In this Season 6 episode of ETF Battles, Ron DeLegge @etfguide referees an audience requested triple-header between equal weighted equity ETFs from Invesco S&P 500 (RSP) vs. Invesco Russell 1000 (EQAL) vs. Invesco S&P 100 (EQWL). Who wins the battle?Program judges Tony Dong and Mike Akins examine this dividend ETF showdown with funds that use dividend income strategies. Each ETF is judged against the other in key categories like cost, exposure strategy, performance, yield and a mystery category. Find out who wins the battle!*********ETF Battles is sponsored by Direxion Direxion Daily Leveraged & Inverse ETFs. Know the risks. Proceed Boldly. Visit http://www.Direxion.com *********Get in touch with our judgesMike Akins, Founding Partner at ETF Actionhttps://www.etfaction.com/
We discuss key market trends of 2023 and what 2024 may have in store for the ETF industry (1:30) - Should Investors Worry About The Magnificent 7 Dominance? (6:30) - Breaking Down The Recent Rally of Small Cap Stocks (9:00) - Will Investors Reduce Their Exposure To Money Market Funds Anytime Soon (11:55) - What Should Investor Know About The Current ETF Flow Trends? (15:05) - Why Is So Much Money Being Put Into Bond ETFs Right Now? (19:00) - The Rise In Active ETFs: Should You Be Buying? (22:40) - Creating A Strong Watchlist Heading Into The New Year (28:40) - Episode Roundup: MAGS, CHAT, EQAL, XLI, AVUV, DXJ, EWJ Podcast@zacks.com
ETF Trends CEO Tom Lydon discussed the Invesco Russell 1000 Equal Weight ETF (EQAL) on this week's “ETF of the Week” podcast with Chuck Jaffe on the MoneyLife Show. EQAL is a variation on Invesco's popular equal-weight S&P 500 ETF, taking the 1000 largest U.S. stocks in the Russell index and assigning them equal weight in the portfolio. The result is a sector and size mix that diverges significantly from the traditional index fund. Adherents of equal weighting argue that it eliminates the market-cap bias built into traditional indexes. At the same time, critics say that equal-weighting is just another way of tilting toward smaller companies in a portfolio.
WELCOME TO THE THANKSGIVING SPECIAL! In this episode, @All.Equal.Parts Zach McCabe stops by for a 4-course "meal" of cocktails and turkey. We talk about his creative outlet-turned passion-turned business and some classic Thanksgiving conversation. Listen for a good time! Presented By Nancy Powell Real Estate Broker @DowntownAugustaBroker (Cyber City's Best Real Estate Agent!) Beer is Brought to You By Savannah River Brewery (Try our DropTheDis Small Batch) SavannahRiverBrew.Com Community Partners: The Little Guide to Augusta & TheClubhou.se at the Cyber Center & The Augusta Players. Also Featuring: @AllEqualParts, 2nd City Distilling & Durty Gurl Cocktail Mixers. Learn More and Shop Merch @ AugustaPodcasts.com Produced at Augusta Podcasts Studio
WELCOME TO THE THANKSGIVING SPECIAL! In this episode, @All.Equal.Parts Zach McCabe stops by for a 4-course "meal" of cocktails and turkey. We talk about his creative outlet-turned passion-turned business and some classic Thanksgiving conversation. Listen for a good time! Presented By Nancy Powell Real Estate Broker @DowntownAugustaBroker (Cyber City's Best Real Estate Agent!) Beer is Brought to You By Savannah River Brewery (Try our DropTheDis Small Batch) SavannahRiverBrew.Com Community Partners: The Little Guide to Augusta & TheClubhou.se at the Cyber Center & The Augusta Players. Also Featuring: @AllEqualParts, 2nd City Distilling & Durty Gurl Cocktail Mixers. Learn More and Shop Merch @ AugustaPodcasts.com Produced at Augusta Podcasts Studio
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The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
Topher Conway is a Co-Managing Partner of SV Angel, one of Silicon Valley's leading seed funds with investments in the likes of Facebook, AirBnB, Twitter, Dropbox and many more. At SV Angel, Topher works particularly close with Gusto, Github, Lookout and many more incredible companies. He was included in Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30 in 2015. Prior to SV Angel, he worked at EQAL, Inc. At EQAL, he worked with the Business Development and Sales teams and lead efforts in creating new business opportunities. Prior to EQAL, he held positions at eCost and a 2004 summer internship in Google's Direct Sales Organization. He is also a member of the UCLA VC Fund, helping foster entrepreneurship at the University. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Topher made his way into the wonderful world of VC and came to be Managing Partner @ SV Angel? 2.) How has the rise of the pre-seed market affected Topher's access to deals? How has Topher reacted to the creation of this new market segment with their new fund size? 3.) How does Topher evaluate grit within founders? Do Topher and SV prefer serial or first-time founders? How does Topher and SV approach startup pivots? Where is the line between stubbornness and vision? 4.) To what extent does Topher focus on valuation and ownership? Why does he believe that it is not important at this stage? What is his determinant to see whether it will be a problem? 5.) To what extent has Topher witnessed the Series A Crunch? Where does he see gaps in the investment landscape? Why does Topher not have a problem with bridge rounds? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Topher’s Fave Book: The Score Takes Care Of Itself Topher's Most Recent Investment: BetterUp As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Topher on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Intercom is the first to bring messaging products for marketing and customer support together on one integrated platform. With Intercom, businesses can chat directly with prospective customers on their website, engage current users with targeted messages based on their behavior, and provide personal support at scale with an integrated help desk and knowledge base. This is perfect for Businesses that want to help people visiting their website become customers. Marketing and growth teams that want to onboard and retain users by sending the right messages at the right time and Support teams that want to move beyond email to provide personalized, scalable support so simply head over to Intercom.com/20MVC Cooley are the global law firm built around startups and venture capital. Since forming the first venture fund in Silicon Valley, Cooley has formed more venture capital funds than any other law firm in the world, with 50+ years working with VCs. They help VCs form and manage funds, make investments and handle the myriad issues that arise through a fund’s lifetime. So to learn more about the #1 most active law firm representing VC-backed companies going public. Head over to cooley.com and also at cooleygo.com.
Listen as Dr. Miles Beckett shares his creative entrepreneurial journey from starting a YouTube sensation to exciting work streamlining physician credentialing at SilverSheet! The ModernMD: Dr. Miles Beckett Dr. Miles Beckett is the Co-Founder and CEO of Silversheet, a company dedicated to developing software solutions that transform the way healthcare facilities and providers collaborate and connect. Previously, Miles was the Co-Founder and CEO of the social entertainment company, EQAL, and was the Co-Creator and Executive Producer of the web series lonelygirl15 and KateModern. Miles holds a B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of California at Berkley and an M.D. from the University of California at San Diego. Success Quote: “If you are going through hell keep going.” - Winston Churchill “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill White Coat to Business Suit: Miles always had a passion for entertainment and during medical school he pursued this interest as the founder and co-editor of The Pulse, a UCSD Medical School newsletter and The Inhuman Condition, a UCSD Medical School underground comedy newsletter as well as the Design Editor and staff writer for The Heuristic Squelch, the UC Berkeley humor magazine. After graduating from medical school and entering a plastic surgery residency at Loma Linda University Medical Center, Miles' created lonelygirl15, a serialized drama that became a pop culture phenomena and online interactive show. Listen as Miles shares his journey on why he dropped out of his plastic surgery residency to follow his passion in online video, build EQAL, and create communities around entertainment and consumer brands while building his own brand recognition. Round Two - What are the biggest lessons starting your second company Silversheet? Planning: Improved ability to scope, design, and develop software. Capital: Raising funding, negotiating term sheets, and selecting the right investors partnerships. Operations: Learning and operating business and structuring the corporate governance, insurance, board structure. Idea to Venture: The Idea: How do you simplify physician credentialing? What is the big vision of Silversheet? SilverSheet helps streamline physician credentialing and empowers physicians to keep their qualifications up-to-date. SilverSheet believes healthcare should be about patients, not paper work! Success: Launching with surgical center market, with core focus on credentialing and privileging process. Lesson Learned: Build an awesome product with beautiful design and have empathy for your users! Business Rounds: Best Advice: “Never to give up” - Paras Maniar, Board Member Silversheet Daily Success Habit: Miles reviews weekly his list of goals and breaks them down into concrete tasks. He has a daily list of items and makes sure to complete at least one major item each day. Healthcare Trends: Listen as Miles shares why he believes the healthcare world is going digital for storage of documents and workflows. Mining the data to drive more evidence-based outcomes. Health Kit APIs - Devices measurements, synchronization Mobile workflows in healthcare. More ability to do job from mobile device. Links: https://silversheet.com/ @mbeckett @silversheet DoseUP: Thanks for all your incredible support. We are grateful and blessed to all our listeners who support physician entrepreneurship and innovation. Be innovative - Subscribe, share the love, and write an iTunes review at TheModernMD.com/review Dream Big and Make it Happen, Dr. Goodman
Adam Wescott, Partner/Co-Founder, is an accomplished executive with more than ten years in the entertainment and digital industries. Most recently, Adam served as principal consultant and executive producer to Refinery29 and Nylon TV, among others. Previously, Adam developed and executive produced the Google-funded Original Channel ‘u look haute’ featuring YouTube sensations Elle and Blair Fowler. As Vice President of Owned and Operated Properties for EQAL (acquired by EverydayHealth), Adam developed and ran more than 20 celebrity editorial websites in partnership with Bethenny Frankel, Nick Cannon, Lauren Conrad and more. He spent four and a half years managing E! Entertainment and Style Network’s creation and distribution of online video. Early in his career, Adam developed and launched social networks for Jessica Biel and Olympic skier Bode Miller. Adam regularly moderates and speaks at industry events and is an active member of Television Academy’s Interactive Media Peer Group and the International Academy of Web Television. He is a contributing author of YouTube Channels for Dummies (Spring 2015) and is YouTube-Certified in Audience Growth.
Adam Wescott, Partner/Co-Founder, is an accomplished executive with more than ten years in the entertainment and digital industries. Most recently, Adam served as principal consultant and executive producer to Refinery29 and Nylon TV, among others. Previously, Adam developed and executive produced the Google-funded Original Channel ‘u look haute’ featuring YouTube sensations Elle and Blair Fowler. As Vice President of Owned and Operated Properties for EQAL (acquired by EverydayHealth), Adam developed and ran more than 20 celebrity editorial websites in partnership with Bethenny Frankel, Nick Cannon, Lauren Conrad and more. He spent four and a half years managing E! Entertainment and Style Network’s creation and distribution of online video. Early in his career, Adam developed and launched social networks for Jessica Biel and Olympic skier Bode Miller. Adam regularly moderates and speaks at industry events and is an active member of Television Academy’s Interactive Media Peer Group and the International Academy of Web Television. He is a contributing author of YouTube Channels for Dummies (Spring 2015) and is YouTube-Certified in Audience Growth.
Greg Goodfried joined the show this week for Episode # 52. Greg was a trailblazer in the online "viral video" world back in 2006, when he created the epic online videos series: LonelyGirl15. This was back when "viral videos" were a big thing. He then went onto be a founder of EQAL, one of the first digital media companies to partner celebrities with major brands. He's now a digital agent at UTA in Los Angeles, and we stopped by the his office to this week for Stories From the Influencer Economy. Greg is passionate about partnering with YouTubers, Viners, and Instagram creators, and helping them grow and monetize their business opportunities. He manages online talent, helping them to build out long term financial opportunities from their work. We talked in detail about how YouTubers and online creators collaborate build their audiences and what habits make a successful YouTuber. We also talk about how the normal person can grow their own social media and video followings. And we agree that "being a good" person goes a long way to create success in the online world. Greg also shares stories about working with YouTubers like Shane Dawson and iJustine, and how he created a web phenomenon with LonelyGirl15 Ryan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ryanjwill Influencer Economy website: http://www.influencereconomy.com/ Greg on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GregGoodfried Greg on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greggoodfried Listen to all our The Influencer Economy episodes and subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-from-influencer-economy/id820744212?mt=2
Miles Beckett is the Co-Founder and CEO of Worksteady, a company transforming healthcare staffing by directly connecting healthcare facilities with qualified doctors and nurses. He is formerly the Co-Founder and CEO of EQAL, a digital media company acquired by Everyday Health in 2012. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 28472]
Miles Beckett is the Co-Founder and CEO of Worksteady, a company transforming healthcare staffing by directly connecting healthcare facilities with qualified doctors and nurses. He is formerly the Co-Founder and CEO of EQAL, a digital media company acquired by Everyday Health in 2012. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 28472]
Jenni has been deeply involved in innovative online communities for several years, dating back to the cult internet series Nobody’s Watching(over 40M views) and later becoming a central figure in the web video breakout lonelygirl15 fan community. This led to her creating the fan-favorite parody series LonelyJew15 which landed her a job at lonelygirl15’s production company EQAL. She has a strong background in production working for Upright Citizen’s Brigade (UCB), A&E’s Deadliest Catch, and Lifetime’s Lisa Williams Life Among The Dead.
This week we learn the intricate details and challenges that Eqal founders Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried faced in creating Lonelygirl15, one of the most unique and compelling web video phenomenons to ever happen. Along with core NM crew Chris McCaleb, Zadi Diaz, and Steve Woolf, it's well over 3 hours of stories about that crazy time, what it took to build a truly interactive fictional web series, and the path it led toward creating a venture-funded social entertainment company. Miles and Greg talk about the way the Internet investigated every clue in the Lonelygirl15 videos in an attempt to figure out who the character was, including frame-by-frame analysis, botanical reports on plants that appeared in videos, and triangulation of products in Bree's room that people used to attempt to determine a geographic location. We also talk at length around the evolution of Umbrella, Eqal's web video social platform, and their recent buyout of Spark Capital, one of the venture capital firms that funded their original investment round. In short, this is another can't miss conversation for anyone interested in creating truly progressive entertainment from people who are literally years ahead of the pack. Also, we get into a fourth bottle of wine for the first time ever, and things get hilarious... Direct MP3 link