PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

He advertised it as broken, set the starting bid at $1.00 Margins have taken a hit at the hands of investments in marketing, seller services and the core product to keep sellers on board, new buyers coming and existing ones spending. The company has crushed it as an advertising platform and managed the shift to mobile extremely well.

Advertising 51

Advertising Retail Startups eCommerce 51

PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

According to a Crunchbase article published in February of 2018, investments in blockchain and blockchain-related startups (excluding initial coin offerings, or ICOs) were already 40 percent of what they were in 2017. And in 2017, those investments were off-the-charts nuts. Most of that spend will be concentrated in the U.S.,

Banking 73

Banking Investments Concentration Accounting 73

PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2018

Integrated payments seem to be the feature every business wants to add and every software company wants to advertise, and it’s true that they’re becoming a more critical component of payment providers’ jobs. What’s the deal with all these big enterprises acquiring or investing in small software startups? IKEA acquired TaskRabbit.

Invoicing 46

Invoicing Concentration eCommerce Startups 46

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Traditionally, investment planning has been at the forefront of how financial advisors add value for their clients. But, with the rise of index funds and the commoditization of investment advice, generating sufficient investment ‘alpha’ to justify a fee has become more challenging for advisors.

Tax Planning 130

Tax Planning Planning Investments Profit and Loss 130

Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Acquisitions : As the number of hosts and guests on Airbnb have climbed over the years, the company has invested in building a more robust platform for its rentals. Second, they also derive revenues from online advertising by hotels and travel providers. in 2019.

Profit and Loss 52

Profit and Loss Valuation Investments Numbers 52

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The Rise of Intangibles While the debate about intangibles, and how best to value them, is relatively recent, it is unquestionable that intangibles have been a part of valuation, and the investment process, through history. With that said, it is clear that the debate about intangibles has become more intense in the last two decades.

Valuation 104

Valuation Profit and Loss Accounting Investments 104

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

Let’s talk a little bit about your alternative investments career. And so alongside of Wall Street recruiting in my senior year, I interviewed at the Yale Investments Office and was fortunate to get that job and violated the two principles I had at the time, which was I wanted to be in a training program and I wanted to leave New Haven.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Investments Marketing Treasury 52

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

101 Things That Advisors Actually DO To Add Value (Beyond Just Allocating A Portfolio) – Traditionally, investment planning has been at the forefront of how financial advisors add value for their clients. Financial Planning. The key point is that firm owners can use benchmarking data to better understand how they can improve their business.

Planning 130

Planning Benchmarking Profit and Loss Communication 130

Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

That said, the movie business remained concentrated, with the biggest players dominating each segment of the business. Some of that blowback can be traced to an expensive bet made by the latter on streaming, reorganizing the company around Disney+, and investing billions into streaming content, trying to attract new customers.

Entertainment 77

Entertainment Profit and Loss Numbers Marketing 77

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 4, 2023

WEINSTEIN: Sometimes like I said in terms of moving a battleship forward it’s just making sure that they have the best investment professionals for their existing strategies. Or you have to create a real partnership or investment committee in order to have the decision making be more a result of everyone versus one person.

Investments 56

Investments Numbers Risk Management Concentration 56

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

You fell in love with investing as an 8-year-old. But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. Things get worse at one of the companies that I’ve invested in. I’m curious how your investing philosophy has evolved over, over the past 30 plus years.

Benchmarking 103

Benchmarking Concentration Investments Profit and Loss 103

PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2017

Early in my career, I was a mathematician who got into investing because I love numbers,” Cherki explained to PYMNTS. The Best Advertisers Aren’t Necessarily The Best Salespersons”. However, companies did not understand the importance of [these] and definitely did not have teams in place to concentrate on such things.

Advertising 40

Advertising Concentration eCommerce Retail 40

PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

Banks have invested time and money into creating their own virtual assistants to give consumers access to their bank account information via their mobile phones. That firm, GSR, previously invested $160 million in tZERO tokens during its ICO in June. On the heels of that news, Overstock’s shares spiked 20 percent.

Banking 44

Banking Transportation Investments Currencies 44

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Bitcoin’s processing operation is highly concentrated within a handful of miners in China — which is getting more concentrated now, since the price of bitcoin has crashed and fewer players can afford to keep the lights on (literally, since bitcoin processing requires a massive amount of electricity). It isn’t because it won’t.

Currencies 85

Currencies Concentration Financial Systems Leverage 85

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

Brian Hamburger has been one of the leading authorities in the world of registered investment advisories, broker-dealers, SEC regulatory compliance. We also co-invested in an investment recently where we — RITHOLTZ: That’s right. HAMBURGER: — we participated in the same investment. Has that closed?

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 60

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Compliance Investments Finance 60

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

What led you into that field of study in the world of investing? There are no Renaissance people left on Wall Street, and investing people who can talk about drama and talk about numbers at the same time. That’s a Graham approach investing, buy a bond with price appreciation. You’re known as the dean of valuation.

Valuation 114

Valuation Education Finance Investments 114

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 13, 2023

My Paraskevidekatriaphobia morning train WFH reads: • The Excitement, Danger, and Unknown of Small-Cap Investing’s Comeback : SouthernSun Asset Management has waited years for a market as promising as this one for its little-known stocks.( This is doubly important because I think we all underestimate how common business failure really is.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Concentration Advertising Investments 52

CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

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Concentration 130

Concentration Economics Manufacturing Numbers 130