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Trading Games… Working the Limits

As noted in this post, I’ve been teaching an Order and Execution Management class at work. In my attempt to make this class interesting and interactive, I’ve supplemented lectures with trading games. For the first session, it was bartering animals; for the second session, it was acting as a market maker and managing a limitContinue reading “Trading Games… Working the Limits”

Advice to Entrepreneurs from VC Eric Hippeau

Another excellent set of guest lecturers in Digital Media Marketing at NYU Stern this week: Eric Hippeau, a venture capitalist famous for investing in Yahoo and the Huffington Post amongst many others, and David Ko, current head of everything mobile at the gaming giant, Zynga. The both of them dropped some great nuggets of wisdom on theContinue reading “Advice to Entrepreneurs from VC Eric Hippeau”

IT is Rubbish: Notes from the Buy-Side Technology Summit

The most inspiring talk at today’s Buy-Side Technology Summit was one hedge fund manager’s passionate appeal to get rid of all IT staff, a comment that generally did not go well with the predominantly tech-focused crowd. Simon Hazlitt, cofounder of Majedie Asset Management argued that there’s no reason for funds to waste money employing technologists;Continue reading “IT is Rubbish: Notes from the Buy-Side Technology Summit”

Trading Game… and Chickens, Cows and Horses

I’ve been teaching an Order and Execution Management class to staff at work, and to illustrate a few points on accounting, price setting, the importance of communication, the difference between intrinsic value and market value, and market behavior, I developed a trading game: an animal bartering game based on the premise made in this whiteContinue reading “Trading Game… and Chickens, Cows and Horses”

Jonah Peretti & Viral Marketing

We recently had Jonah Peretti, a co-founder of The Huffington Post and creator of BuzzFeed, guest lecture in my Digital Media Marketing class at NYU Stern on viral marketing. What is Viral Marketing? The main focus of his presentation was on viral marketing. Viral marketing describes a technique where people share stuff to create anContinue reading “Jonah Peretti & Viral Marketing”

Unpacking Kozmo Jones

I’ve been holding onto this since 2006: a children’s poem about two of my now-gone dogs, Kozmo Jones and Angel. I sent this to several publishers back then, but no one wanted it – responses were mostly that it wasn’t the right fit. It feels weird to post it here, but better leave it hereContinue reading “Unpacking Kozmo Jones”

Our Big Deal Germany Vacation

Given my wife and I spent a solid 15 hours documenting up an itinerary for our vacation to Germany (thank you TripAdvisor!), we wouldn’t be doing it justice if we didn’t put in the extra effort to memorialize the trip in this blog (now that I have a blog). Here goes… View Larger Map(click aboveContinue reading “Our Big Deal Germany Vacation”

GeoDate

When Android first came out, there was no mobile version of match.com or Facebook. In turn, I thought, wouldn’t be cool if there was a location-based profile matching application for the phone? And so the idea of GeoDate was born. Each user gets an associated profile describing basic attributes about themselves as well as theContinue reading “GeoDate”

Bored with (Bulletin) Boards

Several years ago, I became somewhat obsessed with the idea that certain forms of digital communication mediums were lagging in their evolution relative to others. You would need Silverlight to view this, but this page demos a proof of concept of one of my attempts at improving electronic bulletin boards (aka message forums). Here’s theContinue reading “Bored with (Bulletin) Boards”

Networking vs Digital Privacy?

In the last few days, at the encouragement of Greg Coleman of criteo.com, my Digital Media Marketing professor at NYU Stern, I’ve embraced social media. I was hesitant to put myself out there on the web. I didn’t/don’t want to shove my personal info down my friends’ digital throats (who needs another bum rush ofContinue reading “Networking vs Digital Privacy?”