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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

This combinatorial model works because it’s diversified, can best withstand bear markets, benefits from technological synergies, and it’s the mix of products and services clients value. Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. Underwriting.

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

After stints as a technology investment banker, a dot-com entrepreneur, and a product manager in Silicon Valley, I moved to Los Angeles in 2006. For the last couple of years, I’ve been investing in startups as a partner at Mucker, while spending a lot of time in the Valley working with potential co-investors and partners.

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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

The Startup Magazine

Pension funding was above market using aggressive actuarial assumptions. s form of no-holds-barred capitalism, our financial markets were slow to adopt the idea, with the trend really only taking hold during the heady securitization period of the mid-2000’ s. municipal bond market. Unions often cast an outsized presence.

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Selling – the highest paid profession

Start Up Blog

If we work in a sales role that has guaranteed distribution – then again we are not really in a sales role. The truth about investment bankers. Well, the global economy learned the hard way that the people running the finance industry are not a bunch of geniuses who worked out algorithms beyond our comprehension.

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Selling – the highest paid profession

Start Up Blog

If we work in a sales role that has guaranteed distribution – then again we are not really in a sales role. The truth about investment bankers. Well, the global economy learned the hard way that the people running the finance industry are not a bunch of geniuses who worked out algorithms beyond our comprehension.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

You have to realize that you may be too early, the market may not be ready, but also … there’s benefit in sticking it out. — Right out of college, Dave chased a dream of being rich, becoming an investment banker. We found a core distribution model that worked in terms of long-tail search. … Wayne : No.

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No Mess (Too Much Liquidation Preference)

ithacaVC

Current “market” stats actually show about 50% of deals being done with participating preferred and 50% with non-participating preferred. The “no mess” LP issue relates to investors in later rounds of financing (typically Series C and beyond). million balance to distribute to all shareholders prorata.