Most private equity funds (and the equipment finance industry) are well behind the VC industry with regard to their use of social media. Jeff Bussgang, General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners, calculates that of the approximately 1,000 venture capitalists in the US actively seeking deals, 10-15% blog. Sarah Tavel, Senior Associate, Bessemer Venture Partners, calls this...
[Continue Reading]Launch of Track.com, a market for independent Wall Street research
Four days ago, a team of Wall Street veterans launched Track.com, a new marketplace for independent research providers. I met with the management team today. Track.com offers independent research providers a platform to distribute their intellectual property. Buyers pay subscriptions for access to the pool of content. Similar to Value Investors Club, the general public...
[Continue Reading]A marketplace for research
The team from AQ Research (at whose conference I’ll be speaking tomorrow in London) has written a blog post about an idea I’ve chewed on for a while: A Marketplace for Research’. There are a number of gross inefficiencies in the current research business, and inefficiencies are usually the breeding ground where new business models...
[Continue Reading]Making Investment Research Pay
Following are my rough notes from AQ Research‘s recent conference on “The Future of Research”, on December 5. The speakers on this very strong panel were: Scott Lessing, Chief Operating Officer, Citigroup Investment Research Shubh Saumya and Jai Sinha, Partners, Booz Allen David Weild IV, CEO,The National Research Exchange For more information on Booz Allen’s...
[Continue Reading]SeekingAlpha.com: How to increase your consulting revenue and your profile
I had lunch recently with David Jackson, CEO of SeekingAlpha, and a former neighbor of mine. I thought that many of our Circle of Experts would benefit from contributing to David’s company. Briefly, www.SeekingAlpha.com is the leading blog source of stock market related commentary by money managers and industry experts and a major provider of...
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