Linkage: More Core Themes, including Entrepreneurship Porn
Like yesterday, I’m still focusing Linkage on core themes I’ve been tracking this summer while taking a hiatus from daily publishing to ramp up The Basis Point’s consulting business. Huge list below.
Fintech, Lending & Crypto Stuff
- Irony alert: personal loan fintech firms rely very heavily on old school direct mail(cnbc.com)
- Personal loans are fastest growing lending category(pymnts.com)
- Deep dive on JP Morgan's plans for digital domination in consumer banking(cbinsights.com)
- Use cases for private blockchains(bitcoinmagazine.com)
- Credit Karma entering mortgage business(techcrunch.com)
- Zillow also entering mortgage business(techcrunch.com)
- Zillow takes early stock hits on mortgage business news(cnbc.com)
- Facebook's blockchain boss David Marcus is leaving Coinbase board(businessinsider.com)
- Ripple giving away currency to drive adoption(nytimes.com)
- Recent mortgage industry partnership deals(housingwire.com)
- U.S. housing will get even less affordable(bloomberg.com)
- Top 25 tech companies to watch in 2018(wsj.com)
- Everything Amazon is doing in financial services(cbinsights.com)
- Diagram of Goldman Sachs vision for Marcus(lendacademy.com)
- Why is Green Sky a better fintech?(fool.com)
- Susquehanna is way ahead of Wall Street on bitcoin(nytimes.com)
- Small time mortgage brokers getting filthy rich off government loans to the poor(bloomberg.com)
Marketing, Media & Entrepreneurial Stuff
- Entrepreneurship Porn Is Sending The Wrong Message To Founders(businessinsider.com)
- 53% of millennials expect to become millionaires(amtd.com)
- Why VCs don't like Lifestyle Businesses(avc.com)
- Facebook's new Brand Collabs manager helps brands find influencers, hurts small influencer talent agencies(businessinsider.com)
- What every publisher should know about liability insurance(copylaw.com)
- What financial services can learn from consumer direct companies(crowdfundinsider.com)
- Mattresses are like mortgages. Big firms buy startups for their customer acquisition and technology expertise.(forbes.com)
- Top 15 D2C startups by funding(news.crunchbase.com)
- Marcus, Casper, Oscar: Why startups are obsessed with human names(bloomberg.com)
- Content Marketing Power Law(cbinsights.com)