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Young Guns Of Fintech: How These Entrepreneurs Built Their Companies And Landed Millions
Friday, May 27, 2016 - 10:41am | 309The 2016 Benzinga Fintech Awards brought together some of the best and brightest minds in financial technology. Six panels with more than a dozen speakers took the stage to discuss everything from market disruption to venture capitalism. One particular panel was dubbed the "Young Guns Of...
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Meet 'Forcerank,' The Crossover Between Stock-Picking And Daily Fantasy Sports
Thursday, March 3, 2016 - 12:00pm | 1015Led by co-founder Leigh Drogen and company, financial services disruptor Estimize is at it again. This time it’s the launch of a skill-based contest for stock market fans who want to compete for fame and (a small) fortune. The app-centered contest is called Forcerank. Benzinga...
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The 'Real Big Thing' In LinkedIn's Q2 Results
Friday, July 31, 2015 - 9:20am | 342LinkedIn Corp (NYSE: LNKD) reported second-quarter results on Thursday. The company blew out analysts' expectations of EPS of $0.30 on revenue $679.93 million by reporting EPS of $0.55 on revenue of $712 million. Leigh Drogen, Estimize founder and CEO, was on CNBC to weigh in on the...
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Estimize Receives $3.6 Million Strategic Investment From Euromoney
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 - 2:18pm | 473Estimize has roughly doubled the value of its Series B after Euromoney acquired a 10 percent stake in Estimize for $3.6 million. "The media is an incredibly important part of making Estimize the dataset," Leigh Drogen, founder and CEO of Estimize, told Benzinga. "They have an...
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Estimize CEO Sees Q1 Beat For LinkedIn
Thursday, April 30, 2015 - 2:29pm | 281LinkedIn Corp (NYSE: LNKD) will beat the Wall Street profit consensus by 7 percent according to a crowd-sourced earnings projection service. "We believe LinkedIn is going to perform really well," said Leigh Drogen, chief executive of Estimize. Drogen was speaking April 14 at a...
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Why Yelp Is The 'Most Interesting' Earnings Report This Quarter
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 1:38pm | 239Estimize CEO Leigh Drogen called Yelp Inc (NYSE: YELP) the "most interesting" report this quarter, noting that it is the first time that Yelp's revenue has had a negative delta, meaning the rate of growth is slowing. Further, Drogen said the Estimize consensus is below Wall Street...
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Estimize Sees 'Huge Revenue Number' From Twitter
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 2:59pm | 248Twitter Inc (NASDAQ: TWTR) will beat Wall Street's profit expectations by 75 percent when it posts first-quarter results after the bell Tuesday, according to the head of a crowd-sourced earnings prediction service. "We're extremely bullish" on Twitter, Estimize Chief Executive...
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Estimize CEO Sees Weak Sentiment On Q1 Pandora Fundamentals
Thursday, April 23, 2015 - 3:31pm | 255Expectations for Pandora Media Inc (NYSE: P)'s first quarter results expected after the Bell Thursday have been on a steep downward trend, according to the head of Estimize, a crowd-sourced earnings forecast service. "We're seeing falling estimates and not much positive sentiment...
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Estimize CEO: Amazon Revenue Direction 'Not Good'
Thursday, April 23, 2015 - 3:08pm | 164Estimize CEO Leigh Drogen recently discussed Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) ahead of its earnings release. The Wall Street consensus was for EPS of $(0.14) on revenue of $22.417 billion, while the Estimize consensus was somewhat higher and currently anticipated EPS of $0.00 on revenue of $22....
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The Estimize Preview For Google Is Not Expecting An Upside Surprise
Thursday, April 23, 2015 - 3:04pm | 204Estimize CEO Leigh Drogen recently discussed Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) ahead of its earnings release. The Wall Street consensus was for EPS of $6.63 on revenue of $14.061 billion, while the Estimize consensus was slightly higher and expected EPS of $6.78 on revenue of $14.261...
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Netflix Investors: You Might Have Missed This Data Before Earnings
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 2:32pm | 360Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is scheduled to report its first quarter results on Wednesday after market close. The Estimize Consensus estimate for earnings per share is $0.77 with 97 estimates included. The Estimize Consensus estimate for revenue is $1.582 billion. The Wall Street consensus...
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Estimize Raises $3 Million To Revolutionize Crowdsourced Earnings
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - 8:00pm | 442Estimize, a rising startup that crowdsources estimates from more than 4,500 hedge funds, brokerages and independent analysts, announced that it has raised $3 million in a Series B funding round. The round was led by WorldQuant Ventures, which was Estimize's first client in 2012. "This is really...
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Will Twitter's $100 Million Bet On Periscope Pay Off?
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - 6:22pm | 203Welcome to the latest edition of This Week on Estimize. This episode features Sean Udall, the founder of the TechStrat Report and the Estimize Winter 2015 seasonal winner. This podcast focuses on upcoming earnings reports from Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), and Zillow...
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Instagram Could Have Been A $20 Billion Empire Without Facebook
Monday, March 16, 2015 - 8:50am | 749Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) paid $1 billion for Instagram, believing that it was a prominent social media platform that would only grow stronger with time. That bet seems to have paid off. "They're probably a $20 billion company if they're standalone right now," Leigh Drogen, co...
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Exclusive: Estimize CEO Leigh Drogen On What's Next For The Financial Crowdsourcing Platform
Saturday, January 31, 2015 - 2:40pm | 724Estimize founder and CEO Leigh Drogen shared insight with Benzinga about the future of his company and the role it will play regarding crowdsourced estimates on Wall Street. “Estimates are incredibly important,” Drogen said, “because it’s how we build an...