(This blog post was featured in Silicon Alley Insider’s 10 Things Investors Need To Know Before OpenTable’s IPO) Online restaurant reservations company OpenTable filed for an IPO on Friday, revealing their finances for the world to see.  The SEC filing contains all the financial figures you would expect: revenue, expenses breakdown, details of the public [...]

Mint, Thrive, Cake, Yodlee, Quicken Online, Buxfer, Geezeo, Wesabe, and Moneytrackin‘. These are just a few of the many companies in the crowded field of web apps for personal finance management (PFM).  These consumer sites all perform the same basic service: aggregating data from disparate financial accounts (savings, checking, credit cards, loans etc), helping users [...]

Want to know who’s really ahead in the election?!  Forget Intrade and Trend Tracking… The real truth can be found via Amazon.com’s Meters which are tracking the sales of presidential face masks! Obama is ahead right now, 56% to 44%. Possibly Related Posts: A Home for the Homeless and a Desk for the Deskless: NWC [...]

Offline shopping is dead.  Amazon.com killed it. I’m a diehard Amazon fan, as friends can attest.   The lovefest started in late 2005 with a free trial of the (then) brand new Amazon Prime service (tip via slickdeals.net).  Whereas previously only orders exceeding $25 received free UPS Ground shipping, becoming an Amazon Prime costumer gave free [...]