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• How I Just Ripped Off My Hotel
  Posted by Leigh Drogen on December 20th, 2011 at 2:00 pm, Comments: 0

  The hotel I’m staying in undoubtedly thinks that I just ripped them off. I’m in Boston for two days of meetings and needed to find some place to stay last night after the Airbnb host I was supposed to be staying with canceled at that last minute. No problem, there’s this amazing new app called [...]

• Is The Market Fundamentally Broken?
  Posted by Leigh Drogen on December 17th, 2011 at 10:48 pm, Comments: 0

  There is a question that’s been orbiting around me the last few weeks, in what I’m reading, flowing through my stream, meetings with various people throughout the financial world, and general conversations. There are several aspects to this question that break off into different disciplines, but they all boil down to, is the market fundamentally [...]

• Does Estimize Have To Be More Accurate, Or Just More Representative?
  Posted by Leigh Drogen on December 14th, 2011 at 6:11 pm, Comments: 0

  I have been in non stop meetings for the past few weeks, and a very simple but important questions comes up in just about every one of them. For the Estimize platform to succeed, does the Estimize consensus estimate have to be more accurate on average than the Wall Street consensus? I love when people [...]

• Why Chipotle Is Going To $400
  Posted by Leigh Drogen on December 10th, 2011 at 5:02 am, Comments: 0

  In the very early stages of my thinking around what Estimize should provide the community, it was apparent to me that there wasn’t a tool out there which allowed intermediate to longer term fundamental investors to express their analysis of the data as it pertained to the stock price. I thought hard about how I [...]

• Stop Crunching My Time Bro
  Posted by Leigh Drogen on December 10th, 2011 at 1:31 am, Comments: 0

  I’m not sure why I chose to use that title for this post, I think it does lead in decently, but more than anything I was just laughing at the “don’t tase me bro” video. But I digress. I was having a great conversation with a friend yesterday about our consumption of user generated content, [...]

• Estimize Goes Public To Claim The Whisper Number
  Posted by Leigh Drogen on December 6th, 2011 at 6:20 am, Comments: 0

  The first trading strategy I was exposed to when I started my professional career at Geller Capital was an analyst estimate revision model. It was completely quantitative, we looked at how positive analyst estimate revisions and subsequent large beats impacted how stocks moved, specifically high growth high beta mid cap names. It would be a [...]

• How To Make Friends and Find Investors Without Speaking To Anyone
  Posted by Leigh Drogen on November 15th, 2011 at 5:47 pm, Comments: 0

  In a few minutes I’m having lunch with two of our investors and one of our advisors at Estimize. I’m out in San Francisco right now meeting with community members, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists. Anyway, you might be interested to learn that I never actually met one of our investors, in fact our biggest investor, [...]

• A Message To My Generation
  Posted by Leigh Drogen on November 7th, 2011 at 8:33 pm, Comments: 0

  I’ve been fired or laid off from every job I’ve ever had. No joke, I’ve been fired from delivering pizza, stringing tennis racquets, being a boating instructor at a summer camp, I was laid off from Geller Capital in early 2009 after David got sick and wound down the firm, fired from the private wealth [...]

• The Blogging Abyss
  Posted by Leigh Drogen on November 5th, 2011 at 4:04 pm, Comments: 0

  I am  slacking right now on this blog, seriously, and I am ashamed. I don’t write on this blog because I have to, I just love writing and sharing ideas. But as with any other pursuit, you can definitely get yourself into a blogging black hole at times and it’s hard to crawl out. I’m happy [...]

• Lean Startup Philosophy For Bands?
  Posted by Leigh Drogen on October 23rd, 2011 at 3:51 pm, Comments: 0

  I was out in Williamsburg Brooklyn yesterday taking some time away from everything to listen to a few bands and hang out with friends. I’m a little under the weather though and decided to duck out a bit early around 5PM to take a long walk back across the Williamsburg Bridge into Manhattan. As I [...]