I previously posted this on Techcrunch. Let’s say you decide to invest in a VC fund. Congratulations: you’re now supporting the least unpopular part of the investing industry. That said, how do you avoid suffering the poor median returns the industry is known for? Assuming you have a [...continue reading]
> Industry > Financial ServicesInaugural Investor Day @ FinTech Innovation Lab
This is a guest post from our intern Franklin Bi . On Friday morning, I witnessed another volley of shots being fired from New York City at Palo Alto during FinTech Innovation Lab's Inaugural Investor Day. The Lab is a collaboration between the New York City Investment Fund and Accenture, with [...continue reading]
FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011
The new FinTech Innovation Lab, an annual program run by the New York City Investment Fund and Accenture, had their launch event on Thursday night. It attracted a very high quality crowd of senior executives from major investment banks and members of the innovation community --- two groups that [...continue reading]
Web 2.0 / Enterprise 2.0 in the Capital Markets Industry
I have attached below some notes from last Monday's Financial Markets World conference on Web 2.0 / Enterprise 2.0 in the Capital Markets Industry , at Bayard's, New York. My own talk was on "How to Source Deals with Web 2.0 Technologies". It was focused on how private equity [...continue reading]
A Career in Hedge Funds and the Price of Overcrowding
I am prone to agree with Robert Frank's argument in A Career in Hedge Funds and the Price of Overcrowding. "[The market for hedge fund talent] is what economists call a winner-take-all market - essentially a tournament in which a handful of winners are selected from a much larger field of [...continue reading]
