Breaking Through the Mist of Ponzi to Find the Dawn of Value, Part 1
“Under the mist of Ponzi is not only the misery and suffering but also the dawn of value…” The longest Ponzi scheme in history is Bernie Madoff’s hedge fund of funds, which lasted for more...
DDI – Medium Top Stories August, 2019
10 Best Stories From DDI Medium Publication in Tech, Finance, and Entrepreneurship
August, 2019 Deep Learning Techniques for Text Classification
By SWAYAM MITTAL Why Your Free Dark Web Scan Doesn’t Matter By Austin Harman Pandas, Dask or PySpark? What Should...
20 Dollar Bill vs 1oz Silver Coin
If somebody offered to you a 20 dollar bill or a 1-ounce silver coin what would you take?
Contender #1 – 20 dollar US bill
No special announcement and description are needed. The United States twenty-dollar...
The U.S. China Trade War May Cause Multipolarity Instead of Deglobalisation
The U.S.- China trade, technology, and possible currency war suggest a continued escalation beyond rhetoric, with negative implications for trade in an already slowing global economy. Following the bout of tit-for-tat tariffs, talks of...
Correction Is Here
“Venture Capital In Q1 2019: The World Pulls Back From Record Highs.” “Apple buys self-driving startup Drive.ai just days before it would have died.” “China’s historic car market decline continues, as trade war and emissions clampdown...
WeWork: A Pre-IPO Alternative Data Analysis
Most investors will have heard that co-working company WeWork plans to go public this fall. Its tequila-swigging, surfer dude CEO Adam Neumann makes renting office space sound like a spiritual movement. Despite WeWork’s staggering losses,...
The Ponzi Scheme 101: A Ponzi’s Life Cycle and Ways to Survive, Part 3
We conclude our findings in a bid to help users better understand Ponzi schemes, so as to lower their investment risks. With reference to the research discussed in Part 1 and Part 2
1. There is...
How Technology Influences Small Business Lending
Technology influences and reshapes every aspect of our lives. It's changed the way we pay bills, how we shop, how we dine, how we make a hotel reservation, and even how we hail a...
The Ponzi Scheme 101: A Ponzi’s Life Cycle and Ways to Survive, Part 2
We study the Ponzi scheme and different variables’ impacts, such as withdrawal rates, user growth rates, ceiling and so on.
Impacts of Different Variables
With reference to the basic model constructed in Part 1: We have just assumed...
The Ponzi Scheme 101: A Ponzi’s Life Cycle and Ways to Survive, Part 1
We construct the model of a simple Ponzi scheme, deduce how long the scheme will last and when a rational promoter will skip town. Basically, most of the dead P2P platforms or asset management products we...
Startups And Saying No To A Large Investor
Hot startups are often thought of that way because of who is involved and how bold the idea is. And they get disproportionate and arguably undue attention. If you are finding yourself in that...
3 High Quality Dividend Aristocrats For Long-Term Dividend Growth
Dividends are a big part of our investing philosophy, as research has shown that dividend growth stocks have significantly outperformed non-dividend paying stocks. For example, the Dividend Aristocrats are a group of 57 stocks...
Self-Serve: The Solution to Real-Time Connection
About a year ago, I had a lead named Ken come to our website and send a message on our chatbot at 2:52 pm. Not even 60 seconds later a member of my team...
Alternative Data is the Key to Investor Success
Today’s hedge fund managers and analysts are increasingly shifting their gaze toward alternative data as a linchpin asset to drive investment decisions. In fact, seventy-eight percent of hedge funds are currently using or are...
A New Era of Lending: Blockchain Based Loans
Current Issue
Without a history of credit, it is nearly impossible to receive a loan from traditional financial institutions. Banks typically heavily weigh someone’s credit score in assessing whether to issue a loan and in...
Fintech Felt Like Funtech but Now Libra is On Its Way
Libra is on its way. The battlefields are marked. The trenches are built. The die is cast. The financial crisis of ten years ago has profoundly shaped the social-cultural climate of the world. Especially in the...
DDI – Medium Top Stories July, 2019
10 Best Stories From DDI Medium Publication in Tech, Finance, and Entrepreneurship
July, 2019 How we 3D print your whole prescription into one pill
By - Fred Parietti The Misconceptions of AI
By - Jasper Ruijs Technology Trends That...
Alternative Data – A Beginner’s Guide
Alternative data is gaining popularity among hedge fund managers and financial institutions these days. Despite the fact that it opens up new layers of challenges and complexities in the asset selection process, alternative data...
Breaking down the Investing styles of four different Generations
We live in interesting times - a crossroads where four generations make up the changing demographics of the evolving global economy. This has not only given rise to the new tech- enabled model of...
How to Invest in Yourself and Your Business
I started planning for Lightning AI more than three years ago. I was working as a marketing manager, and every day I was repeating the same tasks over and over again. I knew that...
