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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

PC and mobile interfaces dynamically display portfolio valuations and exposures, along with system-generated investment recommendations tailored to a specific client’s financial goals and risk appetite. Morgan Stanley predicts that Robo Advisors will manage $6.5 trillion by 2025, about 5% of the world’s wealth. Transaction Processing.

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

After stints as a technology investment banker, a dot-com entrepreneur, and a product manager in Silicon Valley, I moved to Los Angeles in 2006. For the last couple of years, I’ve been investing in startups as a partner at Mucker, while spending a lot of time in the Valley working with potential co-investors and partners.

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Selling – the highest paid profession

Start Up Blog

If we work in a sales role that has guaranteed distribution – then again we are not really in a sales role. The truth about investment bankers. Well, the global economy learned the hard way that the people running the finance industry are not a bunch of geniuses who worked out algorithms beyond our comprehension.

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Selling – the highest paid profession

Start Up Blog

If we work in a sales role that has guaranteed distribution – then again we are not really in a sales role. The truth about investment bankers. Well, the global economy learned the hard way that the people running the finance industry are not a bunch of geniuses who worked out algorithms beyond our comprehension.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Derek Manuge, CEO, says that “Corl evaluates startups by assessing the risk-adjusted return of an investment based on over 500 metrics across financial (300+), banking (75+), payment (75+), marketing (25+), and team information (25+). 10) Report. DRM services to help with this goal include Blackberry Workspaces and Citrix ShareFile.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

— Right out of college, Dave chased a dream of being rich, becoming an investment banker. We found a core distribution model that worked in terms of long-tail search. … Steve : Even though the old boys are not very old. . Wayne : No. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. It turned out to be the wrong path for him.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

They spend more time on strategy, go-to-market, business development, and financing. developing techniques to effectively manage distributed teams and cut through cultural barriers: Focus on culture from day one. American VCs think about scale from the start, because their large fund sizes necessitate bigger returns.

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