Financial Technology Industry Report – June 2012 June 8th, 2012Venture Capital Hyde Park Capital has released their new Financial Technology Industry Update report. Report Highlights: • As of June 5, 2012, the Financial Technology industry’s sectors were quite polarized: Software & Services (up 12%) outperformed the S&P 500 over the past 12-month period, while the public stock market performance of Processing & Outsourced Services (down 2%) declined slightly and underperformed the S&P 500. • The Financial Technology industry remains active as a number of venture and growth equity investments from institutional investors have been announced and/or completed since the beginning of 2012. • A few notable transactions Read More
14 Ways to Be A Great Startup CEO June 7th, 2012Entrepreneurial Info Top traits found in startup CEOs that are also company founders. Read More
Entrepreneurs: Why Some Succeed June 7th, 2012Entrepreneurial Info One venture capitalist discusses the differences between the pitches he hears from entrepreneurs, and why some succeed and others don’t. Read More
Private SaaS Company Survey Results June 7th, 2012MMM Tech Law Video Channel Survey profiles operating and financial metrics of SaaS companies , establishing some benchmarks for the industry. Read More
Wizards of American Medicine June 7th, 2012Health IT Update on Daniel Henninger’s argument that top-down health care reform would fail due to the “unimaginable complexity” of the system. Read More
The Mythical “A” Player and The CEO’s Real Job June 4th, 2012Entrepreneurial Info Whether an executive becomes an “A” player may have as much dependency on the talents of that executive as it does the leader they’re working for and the environment they’re working within. Read More
How Boards & Senior Executives Are Managing Cyber Risks June 1st, 2012Entrepreneurial Info Board of Directors/Governance It has long been recognized that directors and officers have a fiduciary duty to protect the assets of their organizations. Read More
Judge in Oracle v. Google Case Rules that APIs are Not Copyrightable June 1st, 2012Patents/IP by John R. Harris On May 31, 2012, Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued an order stating that APIs (application programming interfaces) are not copyrightable (Oracle America, Inc. v. Google Inc., Case No. 10-03561 WHA, “Order re Copyrightability of Certain Replicated Elements of the Java Application Programming Interface”). Click here to view the ruling in the case. The very first sentence of the ruling concisely summarizes the legal issue: This action was the first of the so-called “smartphone war” cases tried to a jury. This Read More
2012 SSA Impact Awards June 1st, 2012Events & Associations This year’s event will be held at The Historic Defoor Center on Thursday, September 12, 2012 from 6 – 8:30pm and will be spotlighting FinTech as the “Where Georgia Leads” award category. Barry McCarthy, Group Head and General Manager, First Data Corporation, will be the Key Note speaker discussing his perspective on the latest opportunities and trends within the global payments processing industry. Mr. McCarthy’s team supports over 4,200 financial institution customers, and those institutions’ 600 million credit/debit card consumers and 3 million card-accepting merchant locations. Mr. McCarthy is Read More
TAG FinTech Presents: The Big Data Value Equation May 31st, 2012Events & Associations THE BIG DATA VALUE EQUATION Presented by TAG FinTech When: Friday, July 20, 2012 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM ET Where: Maggiano’s Little Italy, Buckhead; 3368 Peachtree Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30306 Click Here to Register In the last two years alone, 90% of all data has been created! Some of the data is valuable, some isn’t. How are leading FinTech organizations managing the potential and cost of the tsunami of data hitting their organizations daily? Can they extract the invaluable strategic information in a cost effective manner that doesn’t crush their information and analytic systems? Can they mine the relevant data so to Read More