Finance Archives - Tristan Louis (TNL.net)

Get out in town

October 20, 2012Business, PoliticsAndroid, black car, Bloomberg, building Google, California, Connecticut, consumer internet businesses, eBay, Facebook, Finance, finance industry, food buffets, gated communities, Gated community, Geography of California, Geography of the United States, Goldman Sachs, Google, Googleplex, Information Age, iOS devices, iPhone, Microsoft, mobile devices, New Jersey, New York, New York City, New York subway, Princeton, private shuttle, public transportation, public transportation infrastructure, public transportation riders, public transportation systems, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, San Jose, Santa Clara County, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Stamford, Steve Blank, sub-standard products, the Nexus, Twitter, venture capital, Zynga, Zynga's building, Zynga's dog house

Escaping the valley may be the best way to develop the next great tech product.

When software kills

August 4, 2012Business, TechnologyAlgorithmic trading, Bankruptcy, BATS, BNY Mellon, dark pools, Dow 30, Economy of the United States, Etrade, Facebook, Fidelity Investments, Finance, Financial economics, Financial markets, Flash, flash crash, HFT, High Frequency Trading, High Speed Trading, Investment, IPO, Knight Capital, Knight Capital Group, Mathematical finance, midnight oil, NASDAQ, New York Stock Exchange., Niederauer, NYSE, Pershing LLC, quants, Retail Liquidity Program, retail traders, RLP, Scott Trade, SEC, software bugs, software glitch, software kills, stock market, Stock trader, TD Ameritrade, The Knight Capital, the New York Times, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Vanguard Group, well oiled machinery

The dangers of high frequency trading.

From Euro to e-uro

December 11, 2011Politics, TechnologyATM, Automated teller machine, bank networks, Business, cash, Cheque, Currency, cyber currency, David Chaum, Digicash, digital cash, digital currency, digital money, e-cash, e-currency, e-money, e-uro, e-wallets, economics, electronic cash, electronic currency, electronic money, electronic payment systems, euro, Europe, European Union, Felica, Finance, Financial cryptography, Foreign exchange market, founder, internet payments, mastercard, mobile phones, money, NFC technologies, Numismatics, Payment systems, Paypal, potential infrastructure, printing press, smart card, United States

In the Euro failure, a potential chance for an all-digital currency.

T-mobile will force you to do the math to see if new phones are worth it.

User worth: Public vs. Private

August 7, 2011BusinessAndroid software, ARPU, Average revenue per user, Business_Finance, Facebook, Facebook Inc, Finance, Financial economics, FourSquare, initial public offering, Online social networking, Per User Value, private to public markets, Privately held company, Public company, social media, social media properties, Twitter, Twitter Inc, User valuation, Valuation, Web 2.0, World Wide Web

Which is worth more from a valuation standpoint: a user in a privately held company or one in a publicly held one?

Is LinkedIn the new Netscape or the new Google?

May 22, 2011BusinessFinance, First day high, GOOG, Google, Google Inc., Human–computer interaction, initial public offering, internet stocks, IPO, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Corporation, LNKD, media presence, Nestscape, Netscape, NSCP, P/E ratio, social media, social network, stock market, World Wide Web

Is this the beginning of a new bubble or a more rational boom launch? Let’s look at the data.

Fear of Geeks

October 4, 2010TechnologyBill Gates, Blade Runner, car industry, Culture, David Fincher, entertainment devices, Facebook, Fashion, Finance, Fritz Lang, Geek, Internet culture, Linguistics, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, media pieces, media treatments, Movie Release, Popular culture, Ridley Scott, social media, Stereotypes, Steve Jobs, technology space, technology world, The Social Network, Will, word internet

Why does hollywood always paint geeks as remote

Waiting

September 11, 2009Personal, Politics9/11, Aftermath of the September 11 attacks, AIG, America, America tower, Bankruptcy, Chrysler, Chrysler Building, Company Expansion, Cynthia Giugliano, David Halderman, David Vera, Empire State Building, Fannie Mae, Finance, Freddie Mac, Georges Santayana, Gerard Jean Baptiste, Goldman Sachs, Iceland, Jeremy Glick, Lehman Brothers, Manhattan, Mark Ellis, Melissa Vincent, Merryl Lynch, Michael DiPasquale, Morgan Stanley, New York, New York City, New York Times building, Osama Bin Laden, real estate market, September 11 attacks, Skyscraper, Steve Weinberg, The Bank of America, the New York Times, Time Warner Center, Tom McCann, Twin Towers, United States, US government, Wachovia, Washington, Washington Mutual, Woolworth Tower, World Trade Center, World Trade Center site, WTC

In 1931, a shinning beacon of hope rose above the city when the city needed it most. After eight years, WE are still waiting for ours.

Silicon Valley vs. New York – a silly comparison

September 1, 2009Business, Technologyadvertising world, aka Web, California, Camino Real, car industry, Chicago, Chrysler, Chrysler Building, comparison, DC, Design, Detroit, Finance, financial applications, Geography of California, Geography of the United States, Information Age, Innovation, Internet crowd, Internet industry, Internet people, Internet space, leader, local media, London, Los Angeles, media space relating, Meetup, New York, New York City, real estate, real estate market, San Francisco Bay Area, Sand Hills, Santa Clara County, Seattle, Silicon Alley, Silicon Valley, software licensing, technology efforts, technology field, technology industry, technology innovations, technology space, United States, US government, venture capital

Comparing the tech industry in New York and Silicon Valley? That’s just silly

Federal Budget 2010

November 7, 2008PoliticsBarack Obama, cleaner energy, Deficit reduction in the United States, economic advisors, Economic policy, Economy of the United States, Electricity, Energy, Finance, Fiscal policy, government, Government debt, healthcare resources, internet retail, Iraq, Medicare, Political debates about the United States federal budget, Tax cut, Troubled Asset Relief Program, United States, United States federal budget, United States public debt, US government

On a new site designed as part of the transition into office, president-elect Barack Obama asks for some ideas, effectively trying to use the internet created a government run “for the people, by the people, and of the people.” Here are some I had around the budget…

Coins to QQ at Web 2.0

September 19, 2008Business, Politicsachievement point systems, Asia, ATM, Bank, British Columbia, China, chinese government, Currency, eBay, economic food chain, economics, Economist, Egypt, electronic device, euro, Europe, Exchange rate, Fiat, Fiat money, Finance, Force Majeure, Foreign exchange market, fractional reserve banking, France, GBP, Guangdong, History, influences Web, International economics, International trade, iPhone, John Law, Kenya, law sets, leader, Linden Lab, London, metal, metal currency, mobile devices, money, Natural Disaster, New York, Nile, Numismatics, online avatar, online banking report, online character looks, Paypal, peer-to-peer, Person Travel, pharaoh, Philip D'Orleans, point systems, Pound sterling, representative, reserve bank, Richard Nixon, Robert Triffin, smartphones, southeast Asia, Sweden, United States, United States dollar, web interface, Will government

More recent trends could highlight some hypothetical futures for currency.

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