jim_greco

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Move Over Crypto-Enthusiasts, Wall Street Will Take It from Here(tradingplacesnewsletter.com)
2 points by jim_greco 8y ago|0 comments
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Collusion in the U.S. Government bond markets(tradingplacesnewsletter.com)
4 points by jim_greco 9y ago|0 comments
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The Core: A history of the technology that powers Wall Street(tradingplacesnewsletter.com)
2 points by jim_greco 9y ago|0 comments
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The History of U.S. Equity Rebates: From Island to IEX(medium.com)
1 points by jim_greco 9y ago|0 comments
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Improving institutional Bitcoin trading(medium.com)
2 points by jim_greco 9y ago|0 comments
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The Financial CHOICE Act and Banking Culture(medium.com)
2 points by jim_greco 9y ago|0 comments
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US Treasury Clearing Is Broken(medium.com)
1 points by jim_greco 9y ago|0 comments
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Wall Street Loves the Blockchain(tabbforum.com)
4 points by jim_greco 9y ago|1 comments
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by jim_greco 11y ago
Jetbrains charges way too little for such a ridiculously good product.
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by jim_greco 11y ago
I have some personal experience with this. Our company is Direct Match. We used to use the directmatchx.com website. Adding an X on the end isn't that odd in the trading world, but we would get comments on it all the time. directma
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by jim_greco 11y ago
Is it that surprising? What's the bull case for commodities exactly? Europe continues to slide in and out of recession. China is slowly significantly and is structurally trying to change it's economy to be more consumption bas
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by jim_greco 11y ago
It's true for W15.
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by jim_greco 11y ago
The pro-rata provision is only for raises of $100M or more post-money. Is YC only going to do these transactions for post-money between $100M and $250M? Or will you ask to be part of raises below $100M?
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by jim_greco 11y ago
Why not? Because it creates a maintenance nightmare and if it's not your core business that means it will never be a priority. Using Google and Facebook as a counter-example is silly. These are $250B+ companies and these tools are a
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by jim_greco 11y ago
A company should never build a compiler, database, or operating system if it is not their primary business.
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Bond Market Liquidity Is in the News(medium.com)
1 points by jim_greco 11y ago|0 comments
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Direct Match (YC W15) Hires Former Citi Leader(bloomberg.com)
8 points by jim_greco 11y ago|0 comments
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by jim_greco 11y ago
What slack are you running? Slack or any web app doesn't take a second to redraw on resize.
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by jim_greco 11y ago
Talking your book much? This story is so contrived that it hinges on a comically inept founder taking $200M to solely spend on an advertising campaign on the platform of the person investing it. If this is the best example a VC can offer t
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Direct Match (YC W15) and Other Firms Vie to Set Up New Ways to Trade Treasuries(wsj.com)
9 points by jim_greco 11y ago|0 comments
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by jim_greco 11y ago
There is a whole class of point and click trader out there that brings up the Bloomberg NEWS function (scrolling news), waits for the red flash (breaking important news), and steamrolls over unaware market makers. Most of those market make
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by jim_greco 11y ago
LTCM was bailed out by the banks, not the Fed or anyone else in Government. LTCMs LPs got wiped out. The bailout was to contain systemic risks to the rest of Wall Street. QE is actually more like trillions of dollars. A revolving door is f
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Direct Match (YC W15) Is Hiring Java Developers(angel.co)
1 points by jim_greco 11y ago
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Senior Software Engineer at Direct Match (YC W15)(angel.co)
1 points by jim_greco 11y ago
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by jim_greco 11y ago
Yellen has worked at the Fed forever and knows how to speak to private citizens. She's not going to leak her press conference material because her old boss called her up. Your two links are 1) Outright insider trading 2) An unrelated
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by jim_greco 11y ago
How is this a revolving door? - Bernanke has never worked in private industry before - The Fed doesn't regulate hedge funds or HFT firms (Citadel has both) They're hiring him because he's going to be amazing in front of new L
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by jim_greco 11y ago
How do you know what Foursquare's business plan was? Foursquare raised a Series D. They didn't go into that pitch telling VCs that they're just getting traffic and they'll worry about monetization later. Struggling to
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by jim_greco 11y ago
It's a good lesson on just how difficult building a startup is. - Crowley built this product before and sold it to Google. - Foursquare was an overnight phenomenon and had great user engagement. People were addicted to this app! - The
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by jim_greco 11y ago
Most YC companies aren't running call centers.
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by jim_greco 11y ago
Just don't GC :)

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