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The Best New Personal Finance Apps and Sites
M1 Finance bills itself as an online roboadviser “for long-term investors.” Translation: You buy stocks and stock- or bond ETFs ...
Is the Cloud Finally Ready for Big Data?
Few things in technology outside of catching Pikachu on your iPhone have been hyped as much as big data. However, with any trending topic...
Software Engineer Grew from Dungeons & Dragons to virtual reality
August Wasilowski, 38, senior software engineer in research and development at InContext Solutions with a specialty in virtual ...
M1 Blends Automatic Saving With Robo Advisory
I was recently given an exclusive look at an interesting soon-to-launch service called M1 Finance, which blends the ability to ...
The Time is Ripe for Equity Market Auctions
The US equity market trades in microseconds via hyper-fast computers and smart order routers. But there is a growing trend to slow down ...
A Lesson in Growth: Here’s What Insureon Has Been Up To
For many business owners, raising a round of funding is something of a rite of passage — a pecuniary notch on their belts that hopefully ...
101 Sales, Marketing, and Agency Management Ideas
Thank Customers. Find a way to thank your customers, for things like leaving a positive review, treating a sales rep well, making a large...
4 Skills Decathletes Can Teach Marketers
Modern Olympic athletes are incredible specimens. They work tirelessly to perfect their craft, building up their mind and body for a ...
Pricing Your Startup to Perfection Will Hurt You
I’ve always believed in the old adage “Perfect is the enemy of the good.” Most successful startup founders believe this to their core. ...
Supercharging Apache Spark with Flash and NoSQL
Apache Spark has become the defacto standard computational engine in the big data world. But as an in-memory technology, Spark has ...
Better with Age: Chicago’s Top Ten Startup Founders Over 40
The startup world is filled with stereotypes. Whether it’s the casual dress or the unique office perks, every founder knows that people ...
CBOE Is Converting Trading Floors into Tech Work Spaces
Chicago Board Options Exchange is finally letting go of a bit of its trading floor past. The exchange operator for the first time this ...
The Gig Economy Is All About Hustling
While conducting ethnographic research in early 2013 for a digital DIY client, my team came across some interesting findings while ...
Thomson Reuters Adds Futures and Options Trading
Thomson Reuters has added energy and commodity derivatives trading to its Eikon market data and analytics platform via a deal with ...
Insureon, Beefing Up Its Tech, Aims To Disrupt Small Biz Insurance From The Inside Out
Insureon CEO Ted Devine wants to use technology to stand the small business insurance market on its ear. But don’t try to sell him any ...