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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

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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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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. While it’s useful to be able to have a sales forecast and expense budget early on, it’s not something you need until you’ve validated your idea.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5

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Transitioning To a Mobile Centric World

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The next obvious transition was the rise of the browser in 1996, which transformed not only the software application market but also the print and media world. The development tools are different, and the development objectives have changed. The distribution techniques are completely new. HTML5 is a head-fake.

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How to Fine-tune Your Small Business Finances—from Funding to Growth [Webinar Recap]

Up and Running

I joined when there were around seven people there and ran business development there for a little over a year. I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996. What I did is I learned the art of a pro forma and the value of a pro forma which basically is a forecast. I can hire a development team.