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• A 29-year-old CEO named to Forbes 30 under 30 shares his advice for young entrepreneurs

  11-02-2017 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  RapidSOS, a New York-based startup that's modernizing the way people connect with emergency services, is growing quick. 
  Their smartphone app Haven, which allows users to transmit their exact location to emergency dispatchers, was launched in June 2016 and the company expects to be in a million devices by the end of this year. 
  RapidSOS's founder Michael Martin was recently named to the 2017 Forbes' 30 under 30 list for healthcare. 
  The 29-year-old entrepreneur told Business
  
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• There's a hot new posting for Wall Street bankers

  11-02-2017 18:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Wall Street dealmakers used to be sent to Hong Kong or London to win new business. Now they're being sent to places like Seattle, Denver, and Atlanta.
  JPMorgan just hired Brennan Spry as head of corporate client banking and specialized industries in the South, for example. Spry previously worked in Barclays' investment banking division.
  Spry will be based in Atlanta, overseeing a team of bankers in the region who provide services to large companies with more than $500 million in annual revenues.
  
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• A $100 billion fund manager tells us what keeps her up at night

  11-02-2017 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Business Insider asked the Chief Investment Officer of $100 billion manager Bessemer Trust on what she thinks are the biggest risks to the global economy.
  "I’m always worried about what I’m missing," said Rebecca Patterson in an interview with Business Insider. "I’m always worried most about the thing I’m not catching."
  According to Patterson, the three risk factors she worries most about are bond market volatility surrounding Federal Reserve appointments, the F
  
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• New York City landlords have never been this aggressive about filling up vacant apartments

  11-02-2017 17:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Landlords in New York City are taking unprecedented steps to get leases signed.
  In January, concessions like a month of free rent and brand-new appliances rose to a record high in both Manhattan and Brooklyn, according to the real-estate appraiser Douglas Elliman. Concessions hit new highs for a fourth straight month, and the share of new leases with such giveaways was above 30% for the first time.
  Concessions climbed to a record 18.1% of all leases in Brooklyn, more than triple the amount of a
  
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• $100 BILLION FUND: There's more to investing in the US than betting on Trump

  11-02-2017 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  US stocks on the whole have been rallying since President Trump got elected.
  Two weeks ago, the Dow hit the landmark number of 20,000 and last Friday financials rallied on the back of Trump's executive order to review both the Dodd-Frank and the fiduciary rule. 
  Analysts on the whole expect Trump's stimulative policies to be good for US equities, as deregulation, fiscal stimulus, corporate tax cuts, and a Republican, pro-business attitude are generally good for the
  
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• A $200 billion investor just made 'a special decision,' and it highlights a huge risk in the stock market

  11-02-2017 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sebastien Page has crisscrossed the US during his more than 20-year career in investing and risk management.
  After working for Boston-based State Street Associates as a senior managing director and head of the portfolio-management group, the Canadian native moved to the West Coast to join PIMCO as an executive vice president.Page now calls Maryland home. He joined the Baltimore-based investment firm T. Rowe Price in 2015.Business Insider met up with Page in New York City on February 1 to discus
  
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• Trump's 1990 Playboy interview perfectly lays out his view of the world

  11-02-2017 14:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held talks in the Oval Office on Friday, February 10, after which they flew to Palm Beach, Florida for a weekend at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.
  Ahead of the meeting, Japanese officials have reportedly been preparing by, among other things, reading Trump's 1990 interview with Playboy Magazine, during which he rails against Japan on trade, according to the Wall Street Journal's Jacob M. Schlesinger and Alastair Gale.
  Althoug
  
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• One gym is taking the workout world by storm (PLNT)

  11-02-2017 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Planet Fitness, the low-cost fitness center known for its motivational mottos, is taking the nation by storm.
  In 2006, Planet Fitness was the most popular gym search on Google in 7 states, mostly in the Northeast. Now, Planet Fitness is #1 in 40 states and #1 nationally, according to a note by Macquarie Capital released on Monday.
  A team led by Matthew Brookes analyzed Google Trends data for search traffic in the USA over the past decade. The team compared search results for Planet Fit
  
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• 'I don't know how much harder it can get': What it takes to go from refugee to American

  11-02-2017 14:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mulu Bahre had been sitting across from a US refugee officer for hours, answering a series of detailed questions about his life before he fled Eritrea with his mother and sister nearly five years earlier. But there was one question that stumped him.
  “What month did your father die?” the officer asked. He knew the answer was either late March or April of 2002, but he was a child at the time and could not remember with certainty.
  Bahre knew the officer might grow suspicious if his ans
  
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• Twitter — just tell us your daily active user number (TWTR)

  11-02-2017 13:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One of the bright spots in Twitter's fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday was that the platform's daily active user (DAU) growth is accelerating.
  Twitter said average daily usage has accelerated for three consecutive quarters: up 11% year-on-year this quarter, 7% in Q3, 5% in Q2, which was up from 3% in Q1. Meanwhile, its monthly active userbase (MAU) increased by 4% year-on-year to 319 million, up 2 million on the previous quarter.
  Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO, and Anthony Noto, the c
  
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• Here's what Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein is telling clients about uncertainty in the market

  11-02-2017 13:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein has heard enough people talk about uncertainty in the markets lately that, he says, it's starting to sound "trite."
  So in a recent video posted on Goldman Sachs' website, Blankfein delved into the causes of that uncertainty and why, in his view, everything would be OK.
  "I hear from our clients, 'Where are things going to go? What should we do?'" Blankfein said. "And I'll tell you: It's uncertain for a reason, because there are a lot of new things going on."
  The
  
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• REVEALED: This is what secretive billion-dollar startup Magic Leap has been working on

  11-02-2017 01:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Magic Leap, the $4.5 billion startup backed by Google building technology that "augments" human vision with digital imagery, is scrambling to finish a working prototype before an important board meeting next week.
  Here is the first public photo of a working prototype of Magic Leap's portable augmented reality device, which was given to Business Insider by a source.
  We attempted to authenticate this information with Magic Leap but the company declined to comment by time of pub
  
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