Would You Prefer Qualitative Trading?: A layman’s thoughts on computational...
When I was an undergrad, in the early 1990s, I spent a little time trying to figure out how to invest what meager savings I had (generated by my lucrative summer pizza delivery gig). My first efforts...
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In Defense of Banks and Bankers
Jamie Dimon JP Morgan It’s a hard time to be a banker. I’ve had this post in my draft folder for a long time, held back from finishing and posting it by the concern that, at least until...
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Square Puck
Replica of first hockey puck ever used (it actually was square-ish) Square Puck: sounds dangerous, right? I think it is. There’s a famous/trite expression, commonly cited in the venture business,...
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Tokenization and the collapse of the four-party payment model
[This post originally appeared on forbes.com here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2013/02/15/tokenization-and-the-collapse-of-the-credit-card-payment-model/] It’s been a fascinating couple of...
View ArticleWhat’s The Big Idea?
Perhaps I’m just simpleminded, but one of the most important things I look for in a company is the ability to summarize the problem they are solving in one sentence. Often, at the outset, I’m less...
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Submerging Payments
The most important development in merchant payments right now isn’t happening in Silicon Valley (though I do think PayPal is only a few chess moves away from becoming the fifth network.) It isn’t...
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