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| Jun 10, 2011 | Favorite Moments From Disrupt NYC Day One | Day One of Disrupt in New York City was packed with all-star speakers and interviews. All of the videos from Disrupt can be found here and pictures here, but we wanted to do a quick breakdown of videos and pictures of our favorite moments f... |
| May 23, 2011 | Zecco Launches App To Let You Trade Stocks, View Realtime Stock Market Data On Facebook | When it comes to public interaction with the stock market, the ability to trade stocks online has completely changed the game. With abundant financial information on the Web, through a little research, more people than ever before have join... |
| Jun 1, 2010 | Redefining Education…in a Tree House | At some point or another every kid has dreamt of living in something like the Swiss Family Robinson’s tree house; even fictional children like Bart Simpson. I think I could have settled for going to school there. And—fantastical as it seems... |
| May 25, 2010 | Zecco Introduces Stock Trading Widget On StockTwits And Firefox | If you like to trade stocks, chances are you do your research on sites like Yahoo Finance, Google Finance, or even StockTwits to find ideas, and then you go log into your brokerage account to execute a trade. Or maybe you get distracted by ... |
| May 18, 2010 | John Doerr Is Coming To Disrupt. Are You? Here's The Full Agenda. | We are now less than a week away from TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City, May 24-26. The speaker lineup is complete, the Disrupt Agenda is now posted (see below), and the Battlefield Startups have been selected and are at this very moment ... |
| Apr 6, 2009 | Bad April Fool's Joke: Give Away Millions In Fake Money; Users Start Trading With It | See Update Below. Well here’s an idea that must have sounded good at one point. Upstart online brokerage Zecco (already known for pulling attention-grabbing stunts) had the bright idea for April Fool’s Day to load up users’ balances with mu... |
| Feb 10, 2009 | Social investing site Cake Financial raises $1.26M more | Cake Financial, a social networking site for investing, is raising a $1.5 million addition to its first venture round, with $1.26 million raised so far.
The San Francisco-based company lets users import their portfolio data from multiple br... |
| Feb 2, 2009 | It Turns Out Zecco's Free Trading Model Isn't Such A Good Idea | We outlined three points in 2006 on why Zecco’s free trading model raised some red flags. Unsurprisingly, the discount online brokerage firm has been forced to change its pricing structure due to the economic crisis.
Over the years, the zer... |
| Dec 9, 2008 | AlphaClone helps investors do their homework | AlphaClone, a web site that tracks investments made by prominent hedge funds and money managers, launched today to give other investors the insight they need to make good decisions of their own. Armed with the information found on the site,... |
| Sep 4, 2008 | Social stock site Cake Financial launches new stock ranking and recommendation features | Cake Financial, a startup that lets you compare stock picks with other investors, is unveiling three features that may help separate it from a large pack of competitors.
The San Francisco, Calif.-based company already lets users import hist... |
| Aug 25, 2008 | LiveStub hopes to nuke StubHub, others, with commission-free scalping | Updated
Thanks to the internet, selling tickets on the secondary ticket market — the act formerly known as scalping — has gone legit. EBay bought the market pioneer, StubHub, for $310 million. TicketMaster dropped $265 million to get its ha... |
| Jun 11, 2008 | Microsoft helps launch Zignals, another stock-trading site | Zignals is debuting today as a site to help ordinary investors trade stocks as intelligently as more sophisticated investors.
Based in Dublin, Ireland, Zignals lets individual investors set up a bunch of rules and conditions that make it ea... |
| Apr 7, 2008 | Covestor joins the ranks of funded investment sites | Covestor, an investing community site, has raised $6.5 million in its second round of funding. The London and New York-based company plans to build out its asset management platform, which helps its users make investment decisions.
Covestor... |
| Feb 11, 2008 | A survey of social investing sites: 11 contenders | We’ve seen social editing, social networking, social news, social bookmarking, and even social music take off. Now a social shock to the system is coming to a market usually dominated by insiders and experts: the finance industry.
Online tr... |
| Dec 15, 2007 | 2008 predictions from a VC: Android will succeed… | [Editor’s note: This is an Op-Ed piece from Baris Karadogan, a venture capitalist with ComVentures]
It’s becoming customary among VC bloggers to make predictions for 2008. At the risk of educating my competitors, here are my technology pred... |
| Nov 14, 2007 | Zecco raises $25M to beat crowd on zero-dollar trading | Zecco, the online brokerage that hopes to use social networking to drive traffic, has raised $25 million more in financing.
We wrote in detail about this company’s promise here, concluding that the zero-dollar trading service it offered is ... |
| Nov 14, 2007 | Billeo Secures $7 Million In Financing | Online bill pay service Billeo has announced a $7 million Series B round of funding. ATA Ventures led the financing, with additional contributions from all of Billeo’s existing investors including Altos Ventures, Claremont Creek and Pacific... |
| Nov 14, 2007 | Zero Comission Trading Site Zecco Receives $25 Million Series B Investment | Zecco Holdings, a company that offers access to free stock trading, has raised $25 million in a new round of funding from a number of current and new investors. This puts Zecco’s total funding at more than $35 million. |
| Nov 13, 2007 | Zecco Going Strong – Raises $25 million Series B | We were pretty hard on Zecco when it launched a little more than a year ago. Their zero commission brokerage service raised a number of red flags. In particular, we were worried that they would attract only the very low end of the market.
D... |
| Mar 11, 2007 | Zecco gains traction with commission-free trading | Zecco, a company wanting to disrupt America’s online brokerage industry by offering free stock trading to the masses, is making progress.
The company says it is opening a thousand accounts a week, and its growth is accelerating. Yet the com... |
| Sep 22, 2006 | Zecco Has A Hard Road Ahead | Note: The following post was written by regular contributor Neil Kjeldsen. It’s worth noting that Neil worked for nine years in the brokerage industry, most recently managing the schwab.com website and online brokerage product. He is no lon... |
| Sep 21, 2006 | Zecco will kill stock trade commissions | Zecco.com, a Los Angeles company backed by early Skype investor, Morten Lund, says it is going to introduce “zero commission” trading Oct 9th, undercutting the entire industry of online traders, from E*Trade, Charles Schwab to Ameritrade.
T... |
| Sep 21, 2006 | Start-up Zecco raises more than $4M to introduce “zero commission” trading | See story here.
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