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Many fintech startups have tried to become a market-maker between investors and investment opportunities. However, the challenge with this two-sided market is: How do you get the investors to show up? It’s hard enough to get retail investors, but family offices and other large check writers are even more challenging to lure. I’ve been meeting lately with an increasing number of family offices interested in investing directly into companies in lieu of via funds. As a result, I’ve started investigating some of the online platforms that enable direct investing. For instance, those focused ...

now. it's been down from the get go this morning. didn't help with alcoa's earnings last night. all kinds of other influences pushing it south. we're down 125 right now at 13,348. a decline of almost 1%. the nasdaq, which has been the lagger lately, is not so today. down less than .5% or 14 points at 3,505. the s&p is down 8-plus. september, as you know, may be historically the worst month for stocks. if you know your market history, you know october is not far behind, accounting for three of the worst ten months 1929, 1987, each of which had market crashes, and then there was 2008 a...