Our Thinking

Links of the Day May 28th, 2010 - Links of the Day, WoodwardPartners

Interactive top 20 financial institutions by market capitalization 1999-2009 (source)

A demo of Reuters Insider – a “financial YouTube” (source)

Seeding a start-up culture – focused on New York but relevant for anywhere (source)

A very good profile of Silicon Valley visionary Tim O’Reilly (source)

‘Super Angels’ alter investment landscape in Silicon Valley – and we think everywhere (source) Read More

A Future of On-line Finance May 27th, 2010 - WoodwardPartners

This is a copy of a post that Mark Clare wrote on the Valuecruncher blog. It is a good example of the type of strategic analysis (using scenarios) that Woodward Partners provides.

We have been participants and observers of the on-line finance space for a period of time now. As part of that we regularly examine our view of the competitive landscape. We have decided to share some of our views on where the very broad industry may be headed.This isn’t company specific – very much the high-level perspective.

Where We Are Today

The Investment Process

We view the on-line finance space in three broad areas: Information, Analysis and Execution.

Pre-1995 this whole area was dominated by brokerage firms with full-service offerings. They had the information, did the analysis and the executed the trades. Since 1995 that has changed pretty significantly. Read More

Links of the Day May 26th, 2010 - Links of the Day, WoodwardPartners

Umair Haque – rebooting prosperity in an age austerity (source)

Lady Gaga on making money in the music industry today – she gets it (source)

James Murdoch lectures on copyright – but seems confused (source)

Seth Godin gives some thoughts on a new structure for business plans (source) Read More

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