Teracotta Warriors of the PrivaTe Market Ghetto: Funding and Quasi-IPOs
Once upon a time, there was a city called “Publik” where investors and entrepreneurs lived. The city was large but ...
Tag: IPO
Carl Icahn Was Right About PayPal
Carl Icahn, the activist investor, argued that PayPal was "shrouded by a conglomerate discount." Today we can say Icahn was right. ...
PayPal IPO and the coming consolidation in Daily Fintech Index
You lose one, then you gain one. The Daily Fintech Index has lost Xoom (acquired July 7) and gained PayPal ...
Announcing the Daily Fintech Index of publicly traded Fintech stocks
The Daily Fintech Index is a list of publicly traded Fintech companies ranked by total market cap and by revenue ...
TransUnion’s Database on Consumers Grows 25% — Every Year
Do you know what a petabyte is? Well, TransUnion -- which filed for an IPO last week -- has 30 of ...
A Bitcoin IPO such as Coinbase could trigger mainstream merchant adoption
Warning: speculative futurology alert. An IPO today is more of a branding event run by the CMO than a funding ...
Emergent Fintech Public Index
There are almost enough Emergent Fintech companies that are publicly traded to create an Index. Here is the Index ranked ...
Fintech Profile: Green Dot, the Underbanked & Bankers’ Worst Nightmare – Walmart
An eon ago (about 10 years ago, which is officially an eon in tech) I asked a Retail Banker in ...
2015 is when Fintech ventures spend big on consumer marketing to cross the chasm
This post was triggered by seeing the CEO of Motif on CNBC. Motifs were discussed as if they were a ...
Credit Karma Free Credit Data – Like Going To Car Dealers Knowing What They Know
Credit Karma caught my eye because they are on the WSJ Billion Dollar StartUp List. This led me to ask ...
