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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. Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. Today employment in the sector is comparable to levels from 2005-2006 when revenues were also similar.

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10 Predictions About the Future of Ecommerce

mashable.com

Amazons product suggestions are great because they have so much aggregate data. If they did, I could get an amazing aggregate view of whats relevant to me based on a more complete profile. After those experiences, they may review on a third-party site before going in-store to purchase. ©2005-2013 Mashable, Inc.

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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

They do that by aggregating America’s startups, providing them with pro bono services, and promoting regional ecosystem development. The following are my rough notes (with permission, but without review by the speakers) from the event: ——————– Michael Smith, introducing the Case Foundation.

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What’s a Fair 409A Discount?

VC Adventure

It was a benefit to employees and a slight value transfer from equity holders to option holders (generally speaking in M&A transactions the value of the aggregate option exercise ends up allocated across the rest of the cap table). So 30%-40% is the range.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Kayak Software Corporation. round closed Feb 2005. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011. Founding Date: 2004.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

By 2005, it became clear that more people were reading GigaOm than they were reading my then employer, Business 2.0. Lesson Learned : Build a peer review mentoring culture. None of them were hired by me, and instead they were picked up through a peer-review-hire process. I had one of those moments this past week at our offsite.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. This is the blog post I needed to read. Who knows.