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So much progress has been made in online finance, but man, we still have so much more to do! While the amount of investing information has exploded online, there are still major gaps in many of the top sites that seem like no-brainers to fix. The following list — submitted to me over the past [...]
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Mark Cuban, billionare owner of the Dallas Mavs and founder and seller of broadcast.com to Yahoo in the Wild West heydays of the internet bubble, has become somewhat of a folk hero to the average Joe the Plumber. He’s been ubiquitious of late: he’s showing up on podcasts like NPR’s Planet Money and has preached [...]
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After releasing some interesting new functionality last month, Cake Financial is laying off 30% of its workforce. The upstart aggregates financial/brokerage data of its users and then spits out community-level information to help investors make investing decisions. While not a Sequoia VC portfolio company, perhaps Cake is heading their sounding of the alarm bells for [...]
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I love Yahoo Finance. Even if they weren’t the first or even the best financial portal, it has been the go-to place for investors, both individual and institutional, to research stocks, industries, markets, and ETFs — for years. Many gripe that Yahoo has been slow in turning the huge ship that is Y Finance, but [...]
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Steve Rubel is pondering the future of offline (ie. print) media as inflation soars. In fact, he suggests that print media may experience a perfect storm of decreased readership and increased production and distribution costs. Layer a growing sensitivity to the environmental impact of print and Rubel thinks that the growing minions of 3G phones, [...]
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