Client PR Wins
Promoting Financial Literacy
Like most people in my profession, I'm an advocate of financial literacy. I believe the 2007-08 financial crisis would have been avoided...
Load First Model Later
Big data has captured the attention of everyone from the common man to the CEO to the data professional. The common man gets excited at ...
What Does My Broker-Dealer Affiliation Really Cost Me?
Fees are back in the news again as Fidelity recently announced it was upping its quarterly platform fees for smaller RIAs. This comes on ...
Bootstrapping in America: Moneythink
Moneythink co-founder and CEO Ted Gonder talks about the group's mission to promote financial literacy.
I Knew I’d Made It When
We started TenMarks to address the fact that U.S. math scores are abysmal compared to other developed nations. We reinforce math concepts...
MoneyBlock Picks Up Where Schwab’s BrokersXpress Left Off
Like bad sci-fi, BrokersXpress lives on, only in a different form. The announcement in May 2012 that owner Charles Schwab would shutter ...
Leading with Design: An Innovative Prescription for Middle-Market Firms
Three years ago, John Roa started up AKTA, a consultancy focused on helping middle-market firms to be innovative through design thinking...
TenMarks aims to be a “teacher’s best friend”
Rohit Agarwal, founder of ed-tech company TenMarks, remembers the moment he came up with the idea for the startup. The daughter of his ...
20,000 new common-core math questions launched
TenMarks Education today announced the addition of more than 20,000 new questions to its CCSS-ready, web-based adaptive math program.
What Health Insurance Companies Can Learn From NFL Injuries
Here in the New York area, we were recently shaken by a common workplace injury—Mark Sanchez's shoulder injury. Though, in actuality, ...
How to find a doctor that doesn’t suck? Spreemo has a new answer
One of the biggest challenges in healthcare: how to find a doctor that doesn’t suck? Various medtech startups have tackled this issue ...
Facebook Sponsored Posts: Do They Work?
Facebook is working for advertisers, according to an Advertising Age survey. Out of 701 marketers and media execs polled, 85 percent ...
Cloud-based Platform to Handle Injured Worker Referrals Starts with Radiology
A healthcare IT business has set out to improve the way referrals to radiology providers for injured workers are handled. By creating a ...
Essential steps for students to capitalize on college
Last year, the Associated Press reported that 53.6 percent of adults with bachelor’s degrees under the age of 25 were either jobless or ...
WyzAnt looks to disrupt tutor marketplace without VC
To the long list of education disruptors, add WyzAnt. What sets it apart from such companies as Coursera, the Chicago-based company has ...