Market Volatility Following Trump Election
http://www.businessinsider.com/markets-reaction-to-election-results-2016-11 Stock markets are largely based off of aggregate valuations for pieces of a company. Last week once Trump won the U.S. Presidential Election, the world markets started to become more volatile. People were uncertain of what his economic policies would entail. As a result, worldwide, people began to take money out of more uncertain […]
Equilibrium Points & Network Cascades
Following Samsung’s disastrous results with the Galaxy Note 7 explosions, we see that many of the users who previously endorsed Samsung products have shifted towards Apple’s Iphones. What is noteworthy is that the numbers of customers who switched over from Samsung to Apple is a record high, and Samsung’s numbers continue to drop. This phenomenon can […]
Social Media, Viral Marketing, and Network Cascades
In this article points of Malcolm Gladwell’s book, The Tipping Point, are applied to marketing and building brand loyalty through social media. The author connects Gladwell’s concepts of Mavens, Connectors, and Salesmen to social media. Mavens are information specialists and create the story. In social media the story is a way to share brand and product information […]
Ads Coming to FB Messenger App
In class, we discussed Facebook’s auction strategy for advertisers. Facebook would list ad slots along with the click through rates and construct a matching market for the companies interested in using Facebook’s platform for their ads. This appeared to work well for Facebook considering the massive amount of income generated by this process. The analysts […]
Strasbourg and Tanganyika: Two Curious Cases of Cascades
In class we have discussed how information based cascades can lead to large amounts of people making identical decisions regardless of what their own experience tells them. While trusting in the crowd can be beneficial, it also has it’s dangers in the form of abundant misinformation; however, information cascades can also have some very physical […]
“Wealth Concentration”
The “Rich-Get-Richer” phenomenon is an example of a cascade that effects practically every person in the world. Another name for this process is defined as “Wealth Concentration” – a process by which newly created wealth under some conditions, can become concentrated in the possession of wealthy individuals or entities. Basically, those with some wealth initially are […]
Amazon, Fraud, and Information Cascades
On October 3, 2016, Amazon officially changed its Community Guidelines to ban users from posting reviews on products they received for a free, or discounted, price. This ban targeted “solicited” reviews from websites such as Amazon Review Trader [now renamed the “ART Deals Community”], SnagShout, Elite Deal Club, Dollar Deal Reviews, and many more. Any […]
Investing in Tech Companies: Identifying Network Effects
As an intern for a VC firm I source a list of companies for the firm to look at each week, and I have been taught to look for companies that are not just good, but also investible as well. However, what does “investible” mean? There are certain characteristics that make a company a good investment, […]
Trump’s Popularity Before the Election.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-apprentice-paved-way-for-donald-trump-presidential-campaign-2016-11 A big portion of this article is dedicated to explaining that Donald Trump’s support throughout the election has a lot to do with the fact that he had a television show prior to the election. It was called The Apprentice, and it was very popular. Some of the major contributions to his support during […]
Network Effects in Smartphone Market Share: Rise of the Androids
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2016/11/03/android-wins-the-war-for-smartphone-operating.html http://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2016/04/09/apples-iphone-market-share-showing-typical-seasonality/#66230c979815 In 2008, when Android was introduced, the now obsolete Nokia Symbian OS had about half the smartphone market share (with Blackberry, Apple, and Windows controlling the rest), and at its peak in 2012, Apple’s iOS held the majority of the smartphone market. Now, in terms of sales, only 14% of devices sold in […]
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