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How Does ETRADE Make Money?

June 8, 2016Yuen Lo 2 Comments
How does etrade make money

Boring topic huh? Except Etrade’s business model isn’t to get you to trade. Its to get you to deposit. There are a number of ways of making money from money. One is fee for service. Its a bit like a… Continue Reading →

finance business model, equities, investing, stock market, stockmarket, trading

How Does Alipay Make Money?

May 26, 2016Yuen Lo 5 Comments
How does Alipay Make Money?

I almost started a post on How Does Paypal Makes Money, but it would bore me to tears. Paypal is simple: they take 3% of YOUR money VIA the guy selling the stuff. Security is not the killer growth hack… Continue Reading →

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How Does Duolingo Make Money?

May 11, 2016Yuen Lo 2 Comments
How Does Duolingo Make Money

For five minutes every day, when I can pull myself away from my Pokemon, I go on Duolingo to practice my French. It is slick and it is free. You may have never heard of Duolingo, but it is no… Continue Reading →

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How Does WhatsApp Make Money?

April 29, 2016Yuen Lo 1 Comment
How does WhatsApp Make Money

Early in 2014, Facebook paid $19 billion for WhatsApp. It had over 400m users, and therefore sold up for $47 a user. As is often the case with ground breaking acquisitions, Facebook confirmed that apps and users were worth something,… Continue Reading →

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How Do Pensions Work?

April 19, 2016Yuen Lo Leave a Comment
How does a pension work

How does a pension make money for you in retirement is the most important “how does it make money” question of your lifetime. Unfortunately, if you are normal, your eyes glaze over when the topic of pensions come up. I… Continue Reading →

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How Does Uber Make Money?

April 1, 2016Yuen Lo 4 Comments
how does uber make money

A while ago, I made the mistake of saying Uber and AirBnB were basically the same. My friend Jim quickly corrected me. “No AirBnB is the sharing of an existing asset. Uber is the digital disruption of an existing market.… Continue Reading →

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How Does Android Make Money?

March 16, 2016Yuen Lo Leave a Comment
android make money

You’re part of a billion mobile phones. And not just any part. You’re the software. The brains behind it all. But you are given away for free. Even worse, the handset makers who use your software have to pay Apple… Continue Reading →

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How Does A Bank Make Money?

March 2, 2016Yuen Lo Leave a Comment
how do banks make money

Banks buy and sell money. But what they’re really buying and selling is time. You’ve heard how time is money. Well it really is. Remember when you graduated from school and got a job. You worked hard for six years,… Continue Reading →

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How Does Yelp & Groupon Make Money?

February 23, 2016Yuen Lo Leave a Comment

There is a hair salon at the corner of your street. It doesn’t make sense for them to buy an advert on Google. For years, Google has consistently said that they were targeting local. That they wanted to grab the… Continue Reading →

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How Does Gold Make Money?

February 16, 2016Yuen Lo 5 Comments
gold makes money

You’ve seen it a thousand times. Maybe you can’t stand the color. Maybe you love the stuff. But one thing easy to note about Gold is that irrespective of which government is in power, irrespective of the amount of blood… Continue Reading →

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