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Caxton Associates Hedge Fund | Exclusive 13F Holdings Analysis Richard C. Wilson Writes: Caxton AssociateseCaxton Associates Hedge Fund HoldingsThis post is being written as part of HedgeFundBlogger.com's Investment Securities Tool which analyzes the holdings of hedge fund managers.Up next in the macro hedge fund tracking series we have Caxton Associates, ran by Bruce Kovner.

Clarium Capital ManagementClarium Capital | Peter Thiel Holdings AnalysisThis post is being written as part of my Investment Securities Tool which analyzes the holdings of hedge fund managers.Clarium is a $6 billion global macro hedge fund run by Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal.

PayPal's CEO is talking up the company's business handling payments on websites other than eBay. Where have I heard this before? Oh yes: In April 2002, when I had coffee with Peter Thiel, then the CEO of PayPal as an independent concern. He talked up the prospects of growing PayPal's business on other websites.

Max Levchin and many other famous entrepreneurs failed numerous times before hitting it big Reid Hoffman(LinkedIn), Peter Thiel (Paypal/Clarium) and Sean Parker (Facebook/Napster) were all advisors to Friendster Ability to be successful on the web is highly correlated to amount of capital you have

How did the blogs which reposted Bambi Francisco's Vator.tv interview with CBS Interactive's Mike Marquez all miss the obvious subtext? Francisco spends much of the interview asking about the company's plans for future acquisitions, getting Marquez to share that they are looking to purchase and partner with anything video-related, particularly well-produced, professional content.

Reinventing the nation state Section: TERRITORY — by rooter, 21 May Thiel - building his own country A $500,000 donation from PayPal founder Peter Thiel, has kickstarted the Sea-steading Institute, to create experimental ocean communities “with diverse social, political, and legal systems.”

TiECon 2008 starts in a few minutes and the first keynote speaker is Peter Thiel, founder and president of Clarium Capital Management. Prior to this Thiel was c0-founder of PayPal that was acquired by eBay. Thiel was an early investor in Facebook, the red hot social networking company.

Facebook investor Peter Thiel No. 10 in Out's list of powerful gays Peter Thiel, the famed venture capitalist who cofounded PayPal and funded Facebook, has not spoken about his private life since Valleywag broke the curious silence about the gay entrepreneur's sexuality in December.

Marketcetera, maker of an open source platform for automated trading, has raised $4 million in a first round of venture funding. To stay competitive, Wall Street firms need to make trades more and more quickly, says chief executive Graham Miller, so many of them are going automated.