February 2012
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“From the perspective of Mr. Silbert and his peers, Facebook’s success in trading...”
– Private Exchanges Losing Goose That Laid Golden Egg - NYTimes.com
+1 > think Barry has a great vision - wish we were investors…
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“This also leads to a lot of wrongheaded notions that affect introverts and...”
– The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance: Scientific American
» +1
Also notable that Buffett doesn’t live in NYC but in Omaha…
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“Here is the important, and game-changing, point: in order to participate in the...”
– The Next 10 Years Will Be Great For Both Founders And VCs | TechCrunch
Indeed.
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“Peter Grauer, the Chairman of Bloomberg, talked about the results of a study to...”
– Is “Command and Collaborate” the New Leadership Model? - Herminia Ibarra - Harvard Business Review
+1
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“Second, it’s the influencers who will have most of the power. As we become more...”
– Facebook’s IPO Marks End of Web 2.0 Era: Social Web Is the New King - Michael Jones - Voices - AllThingsD
Reputation & influence graph > @PeerIndex FTW
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Kopo Kopo Inc.: Disrupting Banking (Part II) →
kopokopo:
Our last post discussed how the banking industry is at the cusp of an inflection point. To recap, several US startups are attempting to redefine the customer experience by going branchless and embracing simplicity. Across the Atlantic, a new era of banking is already in full swing and — as…
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“With new systems that new specialist foreign exchange companies have in place,...”
– Currency Experts World First Say Single Global Currency ‘Far from Reality’ - pymnts.com
+1 » TheCurrencyCloud.com is creating this “Universal Translator”/”Rosetta Stone” for foreign exchange, allowing any merchant to offer their products and services is any...
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“Here is the important, and game-changing, point: in order to participate in the...”
– To the “A” round go the spoils. - PandaWhale
> Anthemis Group FTW
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“At the beginning of the year, Citi’s share price was trading at 58% of...”
– Why it’s time to break up the ‘too big to fail’ banks - The Term Sheet: Fortune’s deals blog Term Sheet
+1 > as I’ve been saying for years: increasing dis-economies of complexity overwhelm economies of scale for vertically integrated banking giants, esp. as...
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“Besides giving cash outright, you might also opt to lend money to your child...”
– Become your kid’s mortgage lender - Feb. 1, 2012
A good idea and a (small) way for the Baby Boomers to make up for having sucked up all the oxygen in the western economies over past 40 years…
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“@stoweboyd: Yammer is raising a $40M round after a year in which ‘everything...”
– February 03, 2012 at 06:02AM via http://bit.ly/yfEj4u (via stoweboyd)
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Private v Public
via @danprimack: If you read the Facebook S-1, it becomes pretty clear that the company would prefer to stay private, but will IPO to satisfy the desires of investors and employees. Fun stat: Facebook could take 10% of cash on hand, stay private and give every single employee a $122,000 bonus.
Think platforms like SecondMarket and SharesPost were instrumental in making it easier for $FB to stay...
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“Whatever happens in this data privacy and protectionism battle, it is clear that...”
– Davos does data — Cloud Computing News
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“In the increasingly digital world, transactions will get smarter. At the heart...”
– MasterCard Introduces U.S. Roadmap to Enable Next Generation of Electronic Payments - pymnts.com
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“We are used to waking up every morning to headlines that scream the bad news and...”
– After Davos: Making the case for global optimism - Fortune Management
+1
January 2012
44 posts
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“Above all, what The Path of Least Effort tells us is that in acquiring new...”
– Finance Marketing and The Path Of Least Resistance | The Scalable Advisor
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Watch(via Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders | Video on TED.com)
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“The whole point of this book is to show us how our networks have driven us...”
– 7 – #REVOLUTION | THE NEXT BILLION SECONDS
ht @petervan
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“cc @PeerIndex Reputation Enhanced Lending and Trading Becomes Mainstream by...”
– frog’s 2012 Technology Trend Predictions | Blog | design mind
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“The Age of the Algorithm
by Senior Principal Design Technologist Jared Ficklin...”
– frog’s 2012 Technology Trend Predictions | Blog | design mind
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“While other financial and insurance companies flirted with collapse,...”
– In the Era of Greed, Meet America’s Good Bank: USAA - David Rohde - Business - The Atlantic
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“cc @PeerIndex “In business as in private life, all successful...”
– Why trust matters so much in business - Fortune Features
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“via @chris_skinner: +1 “So the real answer should actually be more to do...”
– The Financial Services Club’s Blog: How to deal with an insolvent bank
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“Do I want the future of education to be tied to Stanford, Harvard, etc.?...”
– Educational Disintermediation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty (via felixsalmon)
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“>@visually FTW: One of the most important benefits of visualization is that...”
– Why Visualization
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“The survey then tested the willingness of customers to pay for that channel and...”
– The Financial Services Club’s Blog: Consumers will pay for better online banking
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Watch(via Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea | Video on TED.com)
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Watch(via Video: David Cameron: we’ll make the market fair as well as free - Telegraph)
Sounds like a ringing endorsement of our vision for Anthemis.
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“Mr Haldane argued that “fair value” accounting systems, like the...”
– New bank accounting rules needed to avoid another crisis, says BoE’s Haldane - Telegraph
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“Students should think long and hard before choosing payday loans over any other...”
– BBC News - Wonga stops targeting loans at students after protests
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“Here’s why design is important to the tech world today:
1. As the...”
– Silicon Valley’s New Secret Weapon: Designers Who Found Startups | Co.Design
+1 we’re super fortunate to have some great designers working in our portfolio companies. By design.
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“He believes telecoms should charge for access and make money by selling the ID...”
– How France’s Free will reinvent mobile — Tech News and Analysis
I’ve always thought Niel was a star but this is spot on. +1
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Why low-interest payday loans could scale |... →
Interesting debate. I definitely see opportunities for efficiencies improvements on the risk underwriting and processing side (witness Wonga) but in terms of our portfolio - at least for now - we’ve focused on a different angle: help the customer (the borrower) manage their balance sheets more intelligently over time and help them improve their financial literacy in order to help them make...
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“Dodd-Frank, which purportedly designed to fix Too-Big-To-Fail, has only made...”
– Wall Street’s Big Banks Are The Real Threat To Our Economy | Fox News
…reminds me I need to write that blog post as to why big bank management love big banks so much…
Of course we’re betting on a plethora of natively-adapted (to the digital age) new providers of financial...
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“In the wonderfully titled paper Scaling of Differentiation in Networks: Nervous...”
– The Mathematics of Lego | Wired Science | Wired.com
Scaling of Differentiation in Networks: Nervous Systems, Organisms, Ant Colonies, Ecosystems, Businesses, Universities, Cities, Electronic Circuits, and Legos
I’m mulling over whether Anthemis as a lego set of financial pieces is a good...
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“For the smaller firms and individual advisors, there is a tighter control over...”
– Social media maturity in financial services - Wealth and Capital Markets Blog’s blog - MoneyScience
cc @blueleafadvisor
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“Uncertainty and complexity are the result. In such a world there is neither...”
– Traditional MBA skill set is no longer enough - FT.com
Wonderful article (unknowingly) describing the increasing obsolescence of an MBA in today’s business environment.
Not surprising given that the MBA is in essence the ultimate distillation of the skills needed to run a Industrial Age...
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“Chipchase argues that critics of this process are themselves making a terrible...”
– Do Designers Actually Exploit The Poor While Trying To Do Good? Jan Chipchase Responds | Co.Design
Some good questions.
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“…their hypothesis underscores the fact that visual communication is a...”
– Researchers Say Infographics Can Save Morons From Themselves. Really? | Co.Design
@visually FTW!
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“The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) will announce on Monday that...”
– M.I.T. Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All - Forbes
Fantastic.
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“Myth #5: You can’t innovate in the enterprise
A longstanding fear and reality...”
– Five Myths Of The Enterprise Startup | TechCrunch