Reading Time: 2 minutesQuantiacs: Provides a toolset for traders to create and back test algorithmic trading strategies based on market signals. Traders can create algorithms, back test them on historical data from the last 27 years, and then incubate the algorithm for 6 months to see if it works. The company then connects successful algorithms with investors. The … Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLa Victoria Bakery, a 60-year-old Mexican bakery on 24th Street was a pillar of the community, one of the first Mexican businesses bustling Irish-Italian neighborhood. But just as the Latino family community lent its culture to the old neighborhood, the area was changing again with influx of new tech workers who were looking for something … Read more
Reading Time: 4 minutes Lily Tomlin said, “No matter how cynical you become, its never enough to keep up.” The more I dig into this mobile wellness space, the more that comment resonates with me. I am pretty excited about mobile fitness trackers. I get excited about the challenges of acquiring users and monetizing them in this space. … Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFitbit’s new Aria isn’t the first wireless scale. A French company called Withings has had a wireless scale on the market since at least 2009. I believe Withings is going to fail. The products look cool in an international space-age plastic frog design kind-of-way, but the name is poison. I don’t know what it sounds … Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’re like me you just wrote down some New Year’s resolutions. I was on the site 43Things, and I noted that someone had listed using the Pomodoro Technique as one of theirs. I looked it up and was intrigued. I’ve tried Getting Things Done and a few other list-making methods that promised to make me more efficient, but I … Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesOh Behave! may be the simplest and easiest way to parenting an obedient child. One of the age-old problems with discipline is not knowing what to do, it’s being consistent. Giving a kid a two minute timeout should be easy. It’s not. First, you need a clock. You must watch it diligently to catch when … Read more
Reading Time: 5 minutesPhoto: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pabak/ When I first saw Twitter in 2008 at the Web 2.0 show, I didn’t get it. I still don’t. And apparently I am not alone. A recent Yahoo Research Study showed that .05% of Twitter users generate over half of all Tweets. I’m talking about you Justin Bieber. (#winning.) Being in the social … Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesGraphic Design is basically problem-solving in 2 dimensions. The reason you can’t do a good job of it yourself is that there is no problem for you to solve.