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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

The combination of services and infrastructure traditionally housed under one roof – underwriting, research, sales & trading, supported by large back office operations, and monitored by compliance systems – will remain at the sector’s core. At least for investment banks the answer is not so clear cut. Headcount.

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PC For Rent – How To Make Money Searching For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

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The first project of this kind was GIMPS , a large-scale program launched in 1996 for the purpose of searching for Mersenne prime numbers , that is prime numbers of the form 2 p — 1 where P is a random integer. The aggregate computing power of the project is more than 960 TFLOPS. Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.

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BUZZ Doesn’t Equal BUY: Three Factors To Look For When Seeking Stocks With Long-Term Value

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A Berkshire Hathaway Chairman’s Letter from 1996 underlines that point. In the letter, Buffett advised, “Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio’s market value.” You can have the best operations. Buffett doesn’t care about the latest buzz.

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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

Startup Professionals Musings

According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S. in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. The percent of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business since 1996 has grown from 14.3 Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. percent to 23.4

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How to Run Marketing Experiments The Right Way

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For example, in 1996 a relatively large supermarket chain “Dominick’s Finer Foods” discovered through experimentation that framing discounts in a bundle (“2 for $1”) instead of as single unit discounts (“1 for 50 cents”) significantly increased the number of units purchased. Not really right?

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Im talking about the actual data-fetching operation. Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. This information is normally maintained by your operations team.