GreenSky followed through with its plans to go public within weeks of confidentially filing with the SEC last month – making it the largest fintech IPO in the country since LendingClub and OnDeck went public nearly four years ago.
As described in my book, Jimmy Stewart Is Dead, the way to keep banks from gambling with the financial system is to prohibit their borrowing and establish the Federal Financial Authority (FFA) to verify and disclose in real-time the assets they hold. I call this system Limited Purpose Banking (LPB).
What do you do when your partner decides that it’s time to move on? And what if this news is completely unexpected? A lot of founder disagreements come down to three things - decision making, control, and ownership.
Why are diverse teams smarter than homogeneous ones? Here are three reasons to build more diversity into your business.
To his shock, John’s sustainable discretionary spending is a mere $12,217 per year. But then I thought of ways that John might salvage his situation raising his discretionary spending level to $36,233. There are plenty of safe ways to raise your living standard short of earning more money.
The unique variables that often cause horror films to get terrible Cinemascore polling results.
When it comes to the Solar System, all we have left are the survivors. At last, that might be enough to know what happened 4.5 billion years ago.
Philip Morris International (NYSE: PM) reported its first quarter earnings on April 19, and saying investors weren’t quite pleased with the results would be an understatement. The shares of the company plunged 16% in the aftermath of the results announcement, its biggest one-day drop since 2008...
'The Band's Visit' dominated the night with a massive sweep, but other trends emerged - not all of them so glam.
In the quest to enable customer experiences, retailers need to re-evaluate their focus on driving sales. A focus on transactions yields transactional relationships, while a focus on relationships leads to long-term loyalty, where sales is an outcome.
From a chicken farmer to a maker of MRI machines, here are 24 stocks I favor.
In sports, we don’t take great coaches and put them on the field, and we rarely take top players and make them coaches, and when we do it rarely works out. So why in business do we take our leaders, our top salespeople, our top engineers, and our top accountants and make them managers?
Imagine you are the head coach for a football team. You work with the team, prepare the team, and then game day arrives. You are not allowed to watch the game, listen to play-by-play, read about it, talk to the players about it, or ever learn anything at all about the game except the final score.
From helping us to develop cures for cancer, to making it easier for us to shop online, data driven AI has a huge range of applications. And as AI develops, there is an increasing focus on building solutions for the world’s greatest challenges, including how to take better care of our environment.
Royal Dutch Shell’s (NYSE: RDS.A) Integrated Gas business accounts for 20% of the company’s value, according to our estimates. LNG price movement is closely related to that of crude oil prices. As such, the average price realization for LNG was lower in 2015 and 2016. However, a recovery in oil...
Over the next 25 years, we will need once again to rebuild our infrastructure to support the next waves of Internet innovation. New 5G wireless networks, for example, will support an even more diverse array of applications and services across a broader set of industries and consumer needs.
An inspirational gadget guide not just for Father's Day, but for DIY season and every day. Robot lawn mowers, self-cleaning toilets, germicidal HVAC lamp fixtures and other items to improve quality of life around the home.
From mapping evacuation routes for tsunami victims to detecting human rights violations, read how DigitalGlobe 3D visualizations of Earth play a critical role in major humanitarian efforts.
Over the past two years, McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) has been working aggressively on several initiatives to shed its image of an “unhealthy, junk food” destination and customize its offerings to suit changing customer requirements. These changes have started showing results, with positive comparable...
Speed is a business imperative for application development, but not at the expense of security. Wallarm introduced FAST -- Framework for Automatic Security Testing -- to use artificial intelligence (AI) to automate the process of generating and executing tests.
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, which has argued for easing the Obama administration’s 2025 fuel economy rules, is now urging the nine states already following California’s stringent carbon emission standards to also buy more zero-emission vehicles for government fleets.
An Israeli artificial intelligence startup gets $12.5 million in funding for a deep learning processor they plan to apply to autonomous vehicles.
Looking for your own piece of paradise? You can skip the flight to the Caribbean and head to Michigan's tropical Torch Lake.
'Fortnite' is getting new soccer--or football-- jerseys for the World Cup, and they'll be customizable by country. It's something that fans have wanted forever and is sure to make a boatload of money.
Our trade "opponents" can also play this game. In the extreme they can levy exorbitant tariffs of all US products and form a free-trade zone among themselves. Their collective economy is more than twice the size of ours. ––– Trump is leading us into an economic war that we will surely lose.