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5 investment industry trends behind launch of new IPOs

by Zack Miller on August 6, 2010

This post originally appeared on my new site all about investing in the age of social media, Tradestreaming.  If you haven’t checked it out, you should.  Sign up for the free newsletter as well. *********** I like high-level ideas, especially ones that look at industry trends.  One of the best sources of these ideas for [...]

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Future of online trading: App stores for investing

by Zack Miller on June 15, 2009

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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Schwab beginning to get the social nature of retirement services

by Zack Miller on January 26, 2009

Charles Schwab announced today that it was launching what it calls “Real Life Retirement(TM) Services”.  You can see what it looks like here (screenshot to the right). Background info on the launch From the press release: “We have a different point-of-view from other financial firms in how we approach retirement. For most people, retirement isn’t [...]

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Post Mortem for Monitor110

by Zack Miller on July 20, 2008

Monitor110 jumped onto the investment technology scene in a big way.  Its backers and proponents took the audacious task of attempting to create a huge content system that would enable investors to monitor the increasing content with investment value that is the Internet.  With backing from Roger Ehrenberg, some big names on the BOD, and [...]

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