• 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 [...]


  • Why Cyber Weapons Will Make The World Even Safer
    Posted by on March 4th, 2013 at 4:01 am, Comments: 0

    Scene: China has just exchanged fire with Japan over the East China Sea Islands. The US Navy is in theatre and has as promised under its security umbrella treaty with Japan vows to protect the sovereignty of Japanese territory. In response China has threatened to hold US infrastructure (power, water, transportation) hostage and gives the [...]


  • VP of User Acquisition at Estimize
    Posted by on February 14th, 2013 at 7:46 pm, Comments: 0

    We’re hiring a VP of User Acquisition at Estimize as the platform is rapidly expanding and we need to expand our team. If you or someone you know has ever been on an institutional equity sales desk, or have a monster rolodex (read LinkedIn profile) full of buy side and independent analysts, and a love [...]


  • Some Thoughts On LinkedIn Endorsements
    Posted by on January 29th, 2013 at 12:16 am, Comments: 0

    LinkedIn Endorsements are going to be an incredibly powerful data set as the feature continues to spread throughout that network. But it’s always interesting to see some of the backlash against data sets like this that people perceive as flawed because the intelligence layer has not been added on top of it yet. Why do [...]


  • Admitting What You Don’t Know Is Far More Important Than Skill For Entrepreneurial Success
    Posted by on January 28th, 2013 at 1:23 pm, Comments: 0

    One of the reasons, I think the main reason, that I am a good trader is due to my ability to measure my own emotions extremely well from a distance. That isn’t to say I can control them well, I wear my emotions on my sleeve, that’s just the type of person I am, it’s [...]