Category: Finance

  • CAP Twelve Years Later: How the “Rules” Have Changed

    Eric Brewer about CAP Twelve Years Later: How the “Rules” Have Changed: The CAP theorem asserts that any net­worked shared-data system can have only two of three desirable properties. How­ever, by explicitly handling partitions, designers can optimize consistency and availability, thereby achieving some trade-off of all three. In the decade since its introduction, designers and…

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  • Breaking through

    Breaking through: Building your brand: If you are in the start-up world, either as an employee, founder, investor or aspiring to do any of the three, it is important to thoughtfully build your online and offline identity. The beauty is that these efforts are valuable for anything you might want to do, and, in fact,…

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  • Wall Street power player: We’re incentivized to cheat

    Wall Street power player: We’re incentivized to cheat: Well, as we now know from Lanny Breuer and Eric Holder, too-big-to-fail is also too-big-to-jail. We now have admissions by the federal government that, in fact, this behavior was not extensively examined or investigated because of systemic issues. It raises an interesting point, doesn’t it? Because if…

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  • Unfazed By Bitcoin’s Wild Swings And Mysterious Origins, Silicon Valley VCs Place Their Bets

    Unfazed By Bitcoin’s Wild Swings And Mysterious Origins, Silicon Valley VCs Place Their Bets: Bitcoin’s record highs and the ensuring surge in hacking attempts and thefts may be grabbing headlines. However, beneath the chaos, Silicon Valley’s best-known venture firms are finally starting to make real bets around the crypto-currency. Much better than betting in Bitcoins…

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  • Monkeys should be given billion dollar bonuses

    Monkeys should be given billion dollar bonuses: It’s amazing how often Monkeys and Money come up in conversation. First, there is the proof that money is in our DNA like sex.  Monkeys proved it in a Yale University exercise back in 2009. Monkey Business.

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  • The Kickstarter Principle: Crowdfunding doesn’t work without transparency and trust

    The Kickstarter Principle: Crowdfunding doesn’t work without transparency and trust: Every now and then, there’s a truly heart-warming story about crowdfunding, like the case of the school-bus monitor who was tormented by kids on her bus and wound up with a windfall of $700,000. […] If you are going to appeal to the crowd for…

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  • The Bitcoin surge is a crisis of faith

    The Bitcoin surge is a crisis of faith: Simultaneously [with the Cyprus crisis], the value of BitCoin shot through the roof.Why? Is it because BitCoin is well designed as a replacement for the currency that currently operates enormous economies in seventeen industrialized nations? Could it possibly be used as a replacement for the currency that…

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  • Banks are just data vaults

    Banks are just data vaults: […] banks need to think about how they reconstruct themselves for the 21st century. What this really comes down to is that banks are becoming pure managers of bits and bytes of data. It is the data that has the value today and it is the data that is the…

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  • PayPal Co-Founder Levchin Launches New Payments Startup, Affirm

    Exclusive: PayPal Co-Founder Levchin Launches New Payments Startup, Affirm: As part of its effort, Affirm will use Facebook for authentication of consumers, and also use a number of other social and data signals to assess risk. It will then guarantee payment to merchants — who will pay Affirm a fee — after this check. “We…

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  • A new currency payment system is about to explode

    A new currency payment system is about to explode: The world has tried to create an alternative online currency since the inception of the internet.  If it was not worth doing, then why would the world keep trying to do it? […] So it is worth doing, and one day it will happen. […] This…

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