Financial {Tools}

Warning: the proposal for fully automated management remains at FinancialTools.

(Purely) Virtual currency

• freico.in a peer-to-peer digital currency delivering freedom from usury
  • relying on bitcoin architecture principle
• Ripple open decentralized payment network
• Super Rewards virtual currency monetization platform for social publishers and online communities.
• Bitcoin Bitcoin P2P Cryptocurrency

peer-to-peer network based anonymous digital currency.

Ordered by size of capital and type (equity, loan, etc) or even source (LP, banks, crowd, etc).

Seed funding / Business angels

• Y Combinator funding early stage startups
• TechStars Seed capital and mentorship for startups
• i/o ventures
• Guide to Seed Fund Incubators (Y Combinator Clones) by Josh Catone, RWW 2008
• Seed Incubator Panel: YCombinator, VentureHacks, Capital Factory, TechStars - ReadWriteStart at SXSW by Dana Oshiro, RWW March 2010
• Open Angel Forum providing entrepreneurs with free and open access to the angel investors that they need.
• Presumed Abundance
• in France
  • XMP Business Angels
  • Les liens utiles de Réseau Entreprendre Paris with business angels and incubators in Paris and its region
• Wiseed seed capital ensure
• http://angelsoft.net/a/angel-investor

Venture capital

See also my notes VentureCapitalAndTheFinanceOfInnovation.

• Videolectures category: Venture Capital
  • Early-stage venture capital investing; shaping successful high tech startup companies towards accelerated exits by Yoav Andrew Leitersdorf from YL Ventures, WebStart 2008
• Stanford
  • Stanford Venture Capital Club
  • STVP Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship
• Sequoia Capital Venture Capital Funding - Venture Capitalists
• BBC Dragons' Den Entrepreneurs pitch for investment from some of Britain's top business brains
• AngelList, Venture Hacks November 2009
• Websites tagged with vc (venturecapital) by SitesLike
• Capital Factory seed stage mentoring program for startups that provides a small amount of seed capital and weekly mentoring sessions by entrepreneurs who have founded successful companies.

Crowdfunding / P2P Finance

• open money enables your community to create new types of money and use them to cultivate the kinds of wealth that really matter.
• crowdfunding.fr blog by Malik Goulamhoussen
  • example of specialized P2P investment : My Major Compagny
• WeBank.org.uk
  • While in the past web-enabled innovation in the sector meant online banking and web-access to front-end customer services, there is today a growing set of organisations which remove banks and other institutions as intermediaries altogether.
• Kickstarter funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, explorers...
  • rediscovered with The Board Of Innovation - Business and revenue model innovation dedicated article
• http://www.kisskissbankbank.com

Community funding for open projects

• Open Source Hardware Bank
  • focusing on open source electronics
• Cofundos.org community innovation and funding
  • focusing on open-source software
• research funding
  • Fund Science
  • OpenScienceFund.org by jacob from diybio Houston
  • will most likely focus on biotech
  • see also http://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-crowd-funding-website-service-for-scientific-research/

Social Lending and microfinance

• Dr. Yunus and micro-credit received the nobel prize for peace in 2006 with P2P/Citizen Initiative growing on the web and p2pfoundation.net offering a rich starting point
• PRETp2p - prêts de particulier à particulier / kiva.org / babyloan.fr (from iTele evening edition of the 14th of November)
• as a solution to Money As Debt directed by Paul Grignon quoting at 32:05 :
  • "If some people within this money supply begin systematically lending money at interest, their share of the money supply will grow. If they continually re loan at interests all the money that gets paid back, what's the inevitable result? Weather its gold, theater, dept money, doesn't matter, the money lenders will end up with all the money. And after the foreclosures and bankruptcies are all filled, they will get the real property too. '''Only if the processes of lending money at interests were evenly distributed amongst the population would the central problem be solved.'"
• Kiva Loans that change lives U.S. 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

See also

• Seedea:Seedea/PaymentSystems
• Programming#R
• R Package Recommendation Engine competition on Kaggle
• Review of Mint On-line Personal Finance Tool : The Vault is About Half Full for Armchair Fiduciary
• online FOSS/SaaS based on RADIUS, TACACS and Diameter (cf Accounting (IT) management on wikipedia)
• Black–Scholes mathematical model of the market for an equity, in which the equity's price is a stochastic process.
• If You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? The Effects of Education, Financial Literacy and Cognitive Ability on Financial Market Participation by Shawn A. Cole and Gauri Kartini Shastry for HBS Working Knowledge, 2009
• Artificial Intelligence matrix from Seedea
• Wesabe : "a community of real people dealing with real money issues."
• discussed with Sylvain
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_reversion_%28finance%29
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_risk (for the notion of back-testing)
• Money as Debt II Promises Unleashed from MoneyAsDebt.net
• kaChing find and follow top investing talent.
  • kaChing API
    • "access your portfolio, watchlist, performance history, trade history, research posts"
    • issuing trades on 10-Minute Introduction to KaChing's REST API
• GnuCash personal and small-business financial-accounting software
• Category: Business » Stock Exchange at Abbreviations.com
• Advances in Machine Learning for Computational Finance (AMLCF '09), at University College London
  • Workshop homepage
• XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) open data standard for financial reporting.
• Open Economics provides open content, data and code related to Economics.
• The Industrial Organization of Banking by David Van Hoose, Springer 2010
• Le virus B crise financière et mathématiques by Christian Walter and Michel de Pracontal, Canal Academie January 2010
• SITMO Quant Equation Archive community project to share and organize quantitative financial equations.
• Trading Agent Competition Competitive Benchmarking for The Trading Agent Community
• CrunchBase free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit.
  • could be used to monitor emerging companies thanks to an RSS flux listing funded projects by name, location and money invested (and ideally other options to filter on)
• Fundspire Clear, easy-to-understand hedge fund research platform
• Move Your Money
• Bay Area Trading Systems Interest Group explore and discuss Trading Systems, Meetup.com
• ibpy implements functionality that the Python programmer can use to connect to IB, request stock ticker data, submit orders for stocks and futures, and more.
• SeriesSeed.com standardized set of documents that can be quickly and easily deployed for a seed investment: to help get a company financed properly, legally quickly and intelligently.
• CAP-idea deploy capital in the form of "Growth Debt"
• http://finviz.com
• GPUs in Finance A Thalesian weblog: the power of GPUs
• Oxford-Man Institute Realized Library daily non-parametric measures of how volatility financial assets or indexes were in the past.
• Ledger a powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line. (suggested by JayDugger)
• FPGA for HFT
  • moved to Electronics#FPGAForHFT

See also

• Economy

Note

My notes on Tools gather what I know or want to know. Consequently they are not and will never be complete references. For this, official manuals and online communities provide much better answers.