PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2017

That’s part of the premise behind ShopSeashells.com , the flagship site and latest iteration of startup Seashells (we’ll stop with the alliteration in a moment). The advent of digital gifting may be paving the way for instant cash back. We are using that to pay instantly,” Hines said. “By By doing that, we can pass along cash back instantly.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2016

We raised a small number and hit profitability. Any startup bumps or battle wounds you can share? So I would say we’ve had many more challenges than your typical Silicon Valley startup. We’ve built an amazing team, and we try to solve issues through math or engineering. So a security guard can make more with Bannerman.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

WENGER: Yeah, that had really been my goal since my own first startup in ’96, ‘97, which was a company called W3Health that ultimately failed. From that experience, I realized that I really loved startups, but then I was never going to be good operator, but I thought I could maybe be a decent investor. Why is that?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. New York is number one. Two reasons.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

While Amazon is fairly tight-lipped about specific numbers, eMarketer has cut its estimate of Amazon’s current online commerce market share in the U.S. It is a complicated question — and one greatly dependent on how exactly one lays out the math. delivery startup that raised $575 million in funding. Starting with… Amazon.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2017

Last month at PYMNTS Innovation Project, author and Harvard PhD mathematician Cathy O’Neil spoke to the audience about how the biases that can be built into models can lead to a very dangerous situation when the algorithms become WMDs: weapons of math destruction.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

I talked to Lenore Blum , she was one of the first professors of math at Berkeley, and she was talking about how difficult it was and how eventually her contract was not renewed, how she was almost kicked out of her next university, before she went on to a great career and success. And actually, I was reading a number of studies.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 1, 2022

” Everyone starts doing the math of what their typical clients pay multiply by 300 clients was like, “This is mind-blowing profitability, effectiveness of the firm. ” Or are you a little bit closer to me thinking that is just a ridonkulous number of people for my brain to keep track of? Carl: Well, yeah.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Particularly, 10 years ago, this is a new startup or just in the very early days of “robo-advisors.” And at the time, Ameriprise had rules around you had to be within a certain number of miles from your primary office, and if you weren’t, you couldn’t be associated with that office anymore. Natalie: Yeah.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Is it a stealth startup from Silicon Valley? Many of the most dynamic public companies, from Alibaba to Visa, and many of the most valuable startups, like Uber, are multisided platforms. It’s like being asked to figure out the solution to one of those unsolved math problems that mathematicians work on for years before they go insane.

Startups 43

Startups Economics Math Securities 43

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 9, 2024

So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management. Like that solves like a number of issues.

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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Finance Math Banking 52

PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2017

But digging deeper into a business he admitted he didn’t know much about uncovered a number of other frictions that property owners faced when listing their properties on those sites. But I also don’t think it’s sexy enough for most startups because we’re not a B2C business, and we’re not an app.

Communication 40

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

Bitcoin uses math — and math equations that anyone can solve and see — to provide this cash-like feature. Speaking of math, doing it helps explain that big billion dollar-plus number. Experts believe that number could double again in 2017. Back here in the U.S. — tell a very interesting story.

Currencies 62

Currencies Math Startups Technology 62

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 18, 2024

And so I left a OL for a startup in music. Now, you don’t mention in the book if you were incentivized with stock, but I assume you’re joining a startup. 00:40:26 [Speaker Changed] They, they know, they know math, they know math. That that’s a serious 01:08:03 [Speaker Changed] Media number.

Entertainment 57

Entertainment Investments Math Advertising 57

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

I mean, those were the — that’s what got people all excited and — RITHOLTZ: That’s venture capital numbers. KLINSKY: Well, that is — and it was kind of venture capital numbers because the dollars were so small. RITHOLTZ: So this is in pouring money into startups like venture does. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Shrad Rao, CEO of payroll startup Wagepoint , says small business owners that suddenly find themselves in charge of payroll struggle to acclimate quickly to a process that can be complex and confusing. Payroll is a combination of math and moving money,” the CEO noted. and Canada.”.

Math 44

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2017

Sizzle: European startups: Startups get validation when big investors put their money to work. Prime numbers may have been confusing in high school math, but here they are the type of numbers that make retailers smile.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. So, so you choose a number of specific industries or did you choose them? RITHOLTZ: Wild number.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Brad Gerstner is a founder and investor in technology startups. And he had a little startup RV company called Forest River. But one of the things I learned in that first startup, I had two guys on the two investors who were not traditional venture capitalists. What can I say? Once again? I have an extra special guest.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2017

So good in fact, Fortune reported, that the company announced plans to double the size of its local AI research group, increasing the number of team members from 40 to 80. Despite the challenging environment, I am optimistic that a vibrant startup scene is possible in Puerto Rico.”. Indianapolis Sheds Manufacturing Reputation.

Math 44

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

? ?. The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Steve Case on AOL, Startups & Venture , is below. He was instrumental in getting a number of very positive policy actions passed over the past decade. And if you are at all interested in technology, venture, startups, entrepreneurship, I suspect you will also.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 67

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Startups Investments Healthcare 67

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

Uh, Fred said to give me your number.” ” (LAUGHTER) And he goes, and then he goes like this and tell Fred not to give up my (EXPLETIVE) phone number anymore. LINDZON: Lesson number two. And they go, what’s street.com’s number. He goes, Hey, uh, “Hey, it’s Howard. ” I do the pitch.

Leverage 113

Leverage Investments Valuation Marketing 113

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 2, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So wait, you’re, I’m trying to do the math, if you were 24 in ‘08, so you got this watch in 2000, 99? FOWLER: Yes, I was at LVMH for a number of years, mostly with Louis Vuitton for the first few years. The number one response every single time to this day is for Hodinkee to sell things because they trust us.

Retail 67

Retail Advertising Numbers Economics 67

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Which on the books, if all you’re thinking about is you’re in a cubicle and you’re analyzing numbers for some publicly traded company, you slash inventory, you’ve lowered, or I’m sorry, you’ve increased return on asset because inventory is asset, right? That seems like a giant number. I do the math.

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Manufacturing Economics Numbers Entertainment 98