New breed of financial startup

Really interesting financial startups are popping up everywhere.  Most of what I’m seeing falls into a few different buckets

  • sentiment analysis: the ability to take social media’s temperature on a certain stock, certain market and forecast future price movements.
  • personalized recommendations: for years, the financial community got away with giving generalized information.  Now, it’s getting granular.
  • portfolio replication: lots of new tools, platforms that allow you to essentially program your investing activity to mimic another investor, a strategy, or an algorithm

I’m compiling this list of some of the best cutting-edge financial startups.  What do you think?

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The Future of Online Finance, Startups, and How to Win – with ValueCruncher’s Mark Clare [live]

Well, it’s take 2 for an event I’ve been looking forward to —

We’re hosting a live session with Mark Clare, investor, entrepreneur, and founder of ValueCruncher.

Mark’s written extensively about the competitiveness in the online finance space.

===> He’ll join us to talk about:

  • what the future of online financial content has in store
  • who’s positioned to win
  • the current market view of hot startups
  • what other entrepreneurs and executives in the space can do to assure success.

(If we’re lucky, he’ll talk about his own experiences founding and growing his own startup in the space.)

Please join us Tuesday September 6th at 5PM ET (1PM PT) live.

The online event is free but we’re going to cap attendance at 250.

Please bring questions and be prepared to ask them during the session.

>>>Sign up here to join us.<<<