7 Things Buddy Media Did Right To Become an $800mm+ Company

The first thing, of course, is that Mike Lazerow, the founder of Buddy Media,?met me.?This sounds egotistical, but everything I did in the encounter was bad for me. He cold-emailed me in 2007. I had just launched a company called Stockpickr.com. He liked the idea and his time with GOLF.com (which he had built and sold to Time Warner for $24mm) was running out and he wanted something to do. He liked the idea of Stockpickr and wanted to run it. Specifically, his email said:

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