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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

An early example occurred in 2010 when UBS Analyst Neil Currie accessed satellite imagery to monitor activity in Walmart parking lots, running the data thru a mathematical regression to translate it into customer activity for better earnings forecasts. Morgan Stanley predicts that Robo Advisors will manage $6.5 Transaction Processing.

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

That’s the sales forecast, the spending forecast and the cash flow. You want to show that, and investors need to see the scale of a business that have to do with your sales forecast. They’re going to look first at the sales forecast. That’s a lean business plan. It is not a document.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5 Founding Akamai.

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How The Blockchain Can Unshackle Us

thebarefootvc

The “blockchain” is a distributed consensus system that allows transactions, or other data, to be securely stored and verified without any centralized authority. The transactions are stored on a global ledger (which is why the concept is often referred to as a distributed ledger). Why Is This Technology So Important?

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How The Blockchain Can Unshackle Us

thebarefootvc

The “blockchain” is a distributed consensus system that allows transactions, or other data, to be securely stored and verified without any centralized authority. The transactions are stored on a global ledger (which is why the concept is often referred to as a distributed ledger). Why Is This Technology So Important?

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Measuring Market Penetration with Brand Tracking (+ Metrics & Examples)

ConversionXL

For example, you could deploy CSAT surveys at various parts of the buyer’s journey (distributed across leads so as not to bombard a single customer with multiple questions). Take global brand Headspace , a meditation and mindfulness app. They rank number one for brand awareness in the luxury car segment in the U.S.,

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Are we in a Creator Economy winter?

VC Cafe

Tech advancements are making it easier than ever to create, edit, distribute content than ever before (more on this in my post on ‘ the opportunities for creative automatio n’). According to research firm Ampere Analysis, Global video game sales are forecast to contract 1.2% Creator platforms (Source: Doug Shapiro).