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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. According to research from JP Morgan, revenues from investment banking peaked in 2009 at $207.7 Compliance.

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Recurring Revenue is Magic

Seeing Both Sides

For me and my Jewish CEO boss, though, as officers of a public software company, September 30 was a tough day to be out of the office, sitting in synagogue atoning for a year full of sins. We priced our enterprise software in the form of a perpetual license. This allowed our revenue to skyrocket from $1.8 million to $22.5

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The Imperceptible, But Very Real Boom

Agile VC

I believe we’re going to look back in 2-5 years and realize that we’ve been in a once a decade boom for internet & software startups. Software revenue trails hardware slightly and ad revenue always takes a couple years to shift, but even here the results are astounding.

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. So first, we were much more sort of with a high growth rate, and we did not even care about how we got the revenue when we got it. And now we are much more careful about revenue quality revenues.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

As we do so, keep in mind that the relevant bubble statistic is not valuation. High valuations are fine if the underlying value is there. In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. If too much venture capital hits the streets, valuations will bubble up.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

I wanted to work in the pure, intellectual world of software, not deal with customers mundane problems. Some believe only businesspeople can do this-- that hackers can implement software, but not design it. But it turned outthey didnt like us, because our software was easy to use and we hostedthe site. Thats nonsense.

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

Looking across these nearly 50 companies, the study finds that founding CEOs consistently beat the professional CEOs on a broad range of metrics ranging from capital efficiency (amount of funding raised), time to exit, exit valuations, and return on investment. Let’s just say he didn’t have the benefit of the doubt.