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  • All The Hedge Fund Bashing
    Posted by on May 24th, 2013 at 6:24 pm, Comments: 0

    There’s been a whole lot of hedge fund bashing taking place in the financial media and among the Twitterati lately. And I don’t even mean bashing the managers for various legal indiscretions which in my mind they deserve even more flack for than they get. I’m talking about their returns and fee structures. And like normal, the [...]

  • ChartIQ Price Horizon Powered By Estimize
    Posted by on May 20th, 2013 at 7:05 pm, Comments: 0

    Last month at Estimize we announced our data licensing deal with Bloomberg. Over the next few months you’re going to see Estimize data in many other products and platforms throughout the financial world. Today we’re extremely excited to announce our partnership with ChartIQ in what I believe is a revolutionary product, the ChartIQ Price Horizon. [...]

  • Most People Don’t Have A Passion
    Posted by on May 12th, 2013 at 8:33 pm, Comments: 0

    I meet a lot of people these days, a lot more than I used to as a trader. I’m not the most outgoing person, I flounder badly in unstructured social environments, like having to walk through a cocktail reception where you don’t know anyone and just make friends. I think those things literally are my [...]

  • This Is Why Your FinTech Hackathon Sucks
    Posted by on May 2nd, 2013 at 11:08 pm, Comments: 0

    There is something really amazing going on in NYC right now. FinTech is no longer a dirty word for angel and early stage venture investors, and there are a slew of great new startups. To be certain, innovating within the financial technology space is not the low hanging fruit along the lines of SnapChat or [...]

  • Here’s How Buy Side Analysts Really Generate Their Earnings Estimates
    Posted by on May 1st, 2013 at 10:22 pm, Comments: 0

    I get the following question….a lot. “Are you running an earnings model when you make your estimates? Are you doing channel checks or talking to management? Are you just guessing?” You can imagine that this question gets quite old after a while, especially given the ignorance with which this line of questioning is normally asked, [...]

  • Why Surfing Should Be Declared A Religion
    Posted by on April 21st, 2013 at 2:59 pm, Comments: 0

    As many of you know, I am a pretty devout atheist. As someone who believes in basing his beliefs on science instead of irrational explanations of how the universe works based on ignorance and fear, I’ve long held the belief that organized religion is a detriment to humanity and its progress. Religion retards the growth [...]

  • Bloomberg and Estimize
    Posted by on April 21st, 2013 at 1:27 pm, Comments: 0

    To say the least it’s been an exciting week, both for Estimize and myself personally. While I spent 5 years working for and running an asset management firm, and another two at StockTwits, a successful fin-tech startup, many of the experiences along the way at Estimize are new, exciting, and a bit scary at times. [...]

  • Winter Earnings Season Estimize Stats and Winners
    Posted by on April 15th, 2013 at 12:57 pm, Comments: 0

    The results are in! We’ve spent the last several days going over our Q1 performance metrics, and we’re finally ready to share them. In the first quarter of 2013, the Estimize community beat the Wall Street consensus as often as 69.5% of the time. We didn’t find these stats surprising, considering the members of our community: [...]

  • Why Governments Should Be Terrified Of Bitcoin
    Posted by on April 10th, 2013 at 2:59 pm, Comments: 0

    The definition of a “bubble” is too much money chasing not enough assets. Burn that into your brain, because most people don’t have a real clue what a bubble is. A bubble is not when price goes parabolic, a bubble is not when something gets popular, a bubble is not when you hear anecdotal stories of people [...]

  • We Are The Dick Pic Generation
    Posted by on March 20th, 2013 at 5:06 pm, Comments: 0

    A few weeks ago as we were sitting on the porch of the house in Costa Rica we had rented for our team offsite just chatting, Brian our CTO said something that really resonated with me. He said simply that we were the dick pic generation of technology entrepreneurs and hackers. To be honest at [...]