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73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up

Both Sides of the Table

Fortunately I was mostly a technology consultant, which meant that I coded computers, designed databases and planned system integration projects. He said, literally, I sh*t you not, “well, my report was due and I didn’t have much time. Every investment banker I know is “number 1″ in something.

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The Robots Are Coming for Investment Bankers, Not Just Truck Drivers

Hunter Walker

Fascinating New York Times article of the impact an analytics startup called Kensho is having in investment banking. Maybe in ten years investment bankers will stand alongside truck drivers in discussions about safety nets, universal basic income and skills retraining. Goldman Sachs is Kensho’s largest investor.

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The Economics of a Small VC Fund

This is going to be BIG.

It''s also probably less than most funded CEOs are making--or certainly less than your average software developer. If I was optimizing for cash, I would have been an investment banker a long time ago. I send out my own term sheets and review docs myself--especially since I''m in sydicated rounds. I don''t have any kids.

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The Robots Are Coming for Investment Bankers, Not Just Truck Drivers

Hunter Walker

Fascinating New York Times article of the impact an analytics startup called Kensho is having in investment banking. Maybe in ten years investment bankers will stand alongside truck drivers in discussions about safety nets, universal basic income and skills retraining. Goldman Sachs is Kensho’s largest investor.

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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

To dig deeper, let’s first review the influence of technology on the core components. Compliance is being disrupted as algorithms and other software driven programs can be written to detect and report anomalies much more efficiently than human compliance officers. However each component will change dramatically. Research and Trading.

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Build, Buy Or Build To Buy

YoungUpstarts

When I got back to the office, I reviewed some of the other accounts that we were currently working with, and I noticed some patterns emerge. There are two significant paradigm shifts in software development which have altered the equation.

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

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. They read reviews of the products of target investments.