I recently attended an idea dinner on "Disruptive Companies in the Asset Management Industry". 
 
The most attractive industries to disrupt are highly profitable ones, and asset management is traditionally a highly profitable industry.  IMHO, the most successful disrupters in this area to date have been Vanguard (who popularized index funds) and the ETF industry.  We Read More...

 
Gregory Sanzone, an intern at Parse.ly, took details notes on today's Real Time Data, Content, & Analytics Roundtable, hosted by PluggedIn Ventures.
 
Real Time Data
 
Real time data is valuable in two ways, mainly. The first is that it crudely allows content providers to recognize spikes in popularity of pieces of content, so they can "double down" Read More...