Venmo Archives - Page 5 of 5 - Market Mad House

daniel January 12, 2015 Cheap Groceries, COST, Costco, Dollar Tree, KR, Kroger, Mr. Market, Mr. Money Mustache, New Source of Electricity, Safeway, Save Money, SFM, Sprouts, Sprouts Farmers Market, Thrift, Value Investing, Venmo, Wal-Mart, Walmart, Whole Foods Market, WMT

Why Sprouts Needs to Grow and Grow Fast

The only way Sprouts would be able to compete with Kroger, Costco and Wal-Mart in deep discounting is to match their wholesale buying power and distribution networks.

My Thoughts

daniel January 7, 2015February 17, 2016 Apple Pay, Bank of America, Benjamin Graham, Berkshire Hathaway, Charley Munger, COST, Costco, Family Dollar, FDO, Mr. Market, Mr. Money Mustache, value, Value Investing, Venmo

My Investment Philosophy

I like stocks because these questions are pretty easy to answer when it comes to publicly traded companies. You can look at things such as TTM revenue, free cash flow, and net income and quickly determine if a company is actually making money. More importantly, you can see if a company has a history of making money and the potential to make more money in the future.

Politics

daniel January 4, 2015February 14, 2016 $3.452 billion in cash from financing, AAPL, American Express, Apple Pay, Apple Stock, COST, Digital Walelts, Digital Wallet, Disruptive Technology, Dollar General, Guaranteed Income, Income Ineqality, Mr. Market, Mr. Money Mustache, PayPal, Poverty, Venmo, WMT, XOOM

How Digital Wallets Could Help the Poor and Reduce the Cost of Government

Since most poor people have or could easily buy a smartphone, the government could simply disperse the aid to an app such as Venmo or Apple Pay. This would eliminate the paperwork, and it could be used to greatly reduce the bureaucracy.

Market Commentary My Thoughts

daniel January 2, 2015March 13, 2016 AAPL, ABX, Amazon, American Express, AMZN, Apple Pay, Benjamin Graham, Berkshire Hathaway, COST, CVS Health, Disruptive Technology, Dollar General, Dollar Tree, FDO, Mr. Money Mustache, TSLA, Venmo, Warren Buffett

Some Predictions for 2015

PayPal will start disrupting the financial services industry as soon as it gets spun off by eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY). Expect PayPal to unveil its version of Apple Pay in the form of a souped-up Venmo and enter the banking industry, possibly by buying a bank.

Long Ideas

daniel December 27, 2014February 17, 2016 AMZN, Apple Pay, Consumer society is dead., Costco, CVS Health, Disruptive Technology, Kroger, Long live post-consumer society, NFLX, PayPal, Post Consumer Age, Value Investing, Venmo, Wal-Mart, Warren Buffett, WMT

Are We Entering a Post-Consumer Society?

So what will post-consumer society be defined by? My guess is it will be defined by a lot of choices, and a few giant retailers that provide those choices. An example would be Amazon.com.

Politics

daniel December 26, 2014June 8, 2020 Amazon, AMZN, Benjamin Graham, Berkshire Hathaway, Capital in the 21st Century, COST, Costco, Disruptive Technology, Dollar General, Dollar Tree, Elizabeth Warren, Family Dollar, FDO, Income Inequality, Karl Marx, Thomas Piketty, Venmo, Visa, Wal-Mart

What is the Cause of Income Inequality?

You see the problem here. Technology is most likely to take the jobs of those members of the working and lower middle classes that make the most. It also takes the jobs that provide them with some upward mobility. This

Politics

daniel December 15, 2014March 6, 2016 Apple Pay, Bank of America, Berkshire Hathaway, Bitcoin Obama, COST, Costco, Crypto Currency, CVS Health, Disruptive Technology, Dollar General, Family Dollar, Get Rich Slowly, Guaranteed Income, Investment, Jesus Insanity, Mr. Market, Mr. Money Mustache, Poverty, Value Investing, Venmo, Warren Buffett

An Idea whose Time Has Come Again

Today of course next generation payment solutions such as PayPal, Venmo and Apple Pay would make it easier to distribute founds directly to the poor without much bureaucracy or expense. Since most poor people have smartphones they could simply use payment apps to get the money that they need and spend it.

Long Ideas

daniel November 30, 2014December 8, 2016 AAPL, American Express, Apple Pay, Apple Stock, Bank of America, Benjamin Graham, Berkshire Hathaway, GOOG, Kroger, Mr. Market, Value Investing, Venmo, Visa, WAG, Wal-Mart, Warren Buffett

Is PayPal’s Venmo the Bank Killer App?

In a recent Bloomberg interview, Ready makes Venmo and Braintree sound like a sort of Google for financial transactions. That is an open sourced platform through which a wide variety of transactions are made. The difference is that Braintree’s transactions are financial.

Long Ideas

daniel November 28, 2014January 24, 2016 AAPL, American Express, Apple Pay, AXP, Current C, EBAY, eBay Inc., MA, MasterCard, PayPal, SnapCash, Square, V, Venmo, Visa

Apple Pay vs. Venmo vs. Square

Square has also tried to launch its own payments apps called Square Cash and SnapCash. Square Cash is a payments app similar to Venmo and Apple Pay; SnapCash is a variation of Square Cash reengineered to work over the popular social network Snapchat. In other words, it’s Square’s answer to Venmo. One difference is that it can work with merchants that use Square.