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Because it has broader appeal, we spend a lot of time thinking and talking about the demand side of financial social media. Investors can use tools like following their favorite investors portfolio moves on Covestor or crowdsource ideas on Piqqem or use AlphaClone to create the same portfolio Warren Buffett has. There are other great [...]
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According to a recent article in the FT, some of Europe’s best banking and insurance sell-side analysts are banding together to launch an independent research boutique this fall. Autonomous Research will work to combine both equity and credit research under one roof independent of an investment bank entity. It’s hard to find good independent research [...]
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I’m a big believer in expert investing communities and have written before about how these types of communities benefit investors. The sites bring a certain liquidity of ideas into the marketplace benefiting professionals and individuals alike with their thoroughness and visibility. To that end, I recently got a chance to shmooze with Divya Narenda, founder [...]
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It’s been a truism that the secret to runaway success in technology has always been in platform building. I learned about the intricacies of building platform leadership from a book by the same name, “Platform Leadership” which I read during my MBA. The book by Gawer and Cusumano detailed how Cisco, Intel and Microsoft drove [...]
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Is the elusive “Bloomberg for the masses” attainable? Of course, most do-it-yourself investors cannot afford the cost of thousands of dollars per month for these expensive terminals. But, what about making a platform free for subscribers and monetizing the platform via advertising? That’s exactly what SkyGrid is attempting. Until recently, SkyGrid charged $6000 per seat/year [...]
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Institutional investors have powerful tools at their disposal to screen through reams of data. Part of the institutional investment process entails screening through thousands of securities looking for a needle in a haystack — stocks that fit certain investment criteria. From thousands of stocks, analysts can filter through a couple of hundred that fit these [...]
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