wcgortel

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by wcgortel 10y ago
Congratulations on your launch! Well done. A great idea that needed to happen. Looking forward to kicking the tires on it.
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A Deep Dive into WeWork's user base shows spiking churn and a shrinking moat(medium.com)
2 points by wcgortel 10y ago|0 comments
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Are financial advisers supposed to get paid?(blogs.cfainstitute.org)
2 points by wcgortel 11y ago|0 comments
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by wcgortel 11y ago
You may be interested to read the other guy's take on that bet. One of the more interesting reads on the business of running a hedge fund I've seen. http://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2015/02/12&
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Tinder Thinks Millennials Will Pay for Dating Apps(bloomberg.com)
3 points by wcgortel 12y ago|1 comments
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Betting with Buffett: Seven Years Later(blogs.cfainstitute.org)
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29 Charts Worth Your Time(blogs.cfainstitute.org)
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Free investing is the new free checking(blogs.cfainstitute.org)
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Is Venture Capital a Giffen Good?(blogs.cfainstitute.org)
1 points by wcgortel 12y ago|0 comments
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by wcgortel 12y ago
It really depends how you use it. "Technical analysis" refers to techniques that are as disparate as "cooking". There is evidence of some technical stuff being quite valid--the relevance of momentum to returns, for examp
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A New Era in Human-Computer Interaction(blogs.cfainstitute.org)
2 points by wcgortel 12y ago|0 comments
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Moven, the Debit Card You Download(moven.com)
3 points by wcgortel 12y ago|0 comments
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by wcgortel 12y ago
You might dig this article on the economics of star trek. It's kind of an inquiry into what currency might look like in an era of abundance. https://medium.com/@RickWebb/the-economics-of-star-trek-29ba...
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A Network Analysis of the Bank of England's Successful Twitter Chats(blogs.cfainstitute.org)
1 points by wcgortel 12y ago|0 comments
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by wcgortel 12y ago
I just updated with a couple more grabs. I don't want to pull the full article, but I added in the FT's long time series chart of income inequality and conclusion though.
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by wcgortel 12y ago
Posted links to piketty's response and more detailed explication of the issues on my blog: http://wcgortel.com/pikettys-problem
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Piketty's Findings Undercut by Errors(ft.com)
66 points by wcgortel 12y ago|28 comments
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Have You Made a Profit on your Life? (blogs.cfainstitute.org)
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by wcgortel 13y ago
FYI, with charts like this it's kind of important to do some quantitative work, not just take a look. Check out this taxonomy of charts: http://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2013/05/15/an-r-squar..
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How do you benchmark content?(medium.com)
1 points by wcgortel 13y ago|0 comments
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Uber's Business Model is Simply Capturing Consumer Surplus(blogs.cfainstitute.org)
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Is there really a crisis? A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Student Loans.(blogs.cfainstitute.org)
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What Happened to the Money Americans borrowed during the Financial Crisis?(blogs.cfainstitute.org)
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The Paradox of choice in micro vc(lp2dot0.com)
1 points by wcgortel 13y ago|0 comments
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by wcgortel 13y ago
Thought this might be a useful addition to the discussion about "is the tech market in a bubble?" If you're going to talk about how over/under/fairly valued these companies are, it seems necessary to me to ask quest
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The Competitive Advantage Period: Critical for valuing tech companies(capatcolumbia.com)
1 points by wcgortel 13y ago|1 comments
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by wcgortel 13y ago
Yeah, there are a lot of unstated premises here. Volatility is important to option valuation but the mechanics of real option valuation (what we are talking about) are materially different from black/scholes. In fact, black scholes is
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by wcgortel 13y ago
Many businesses have characteristics of ponzi schemes without being ponzi schemes. You're right that there is a bright line distinction in some places (i.e., if there is actually a fraud), but why is it wrong to bring up that there is
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by wcgortel 13y ago
The value of lean in is almost unrelated to anything except for it's author's gender. Most of this stuff has been said before. There are tons of career books, and she cites a lot of existing research. It's valuable because it shows a career
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by wcgortel 13y ago
What do you think about the CQF?

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