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Re:Can the Bloomberg Terminal be "Toppled"? by mattturck on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @04:56PM (#7431796)
Great thoughts here, and funny story on Cap IQ. Speaking of which, Cap IQ is exactly an example of positioning away from the Bloomberg terminal (with a core initial focus on investment banking as opposed to trading). Unclear whether there's a big juicy opportunity out there like this, like there was when Neal Goldman and his co-founders started Cap IQ in 1999. And great points on #4 and #5, although there's a whole subsegment (underbelly?) of financial services companies which are more cost conscious and where $20k per year for one user is a real investment. Bloomberg is not going after those as aggressively as far as I know.
Re:Can the Bloomberg Terminal be "Toppled"? by squigs25 on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @05:01PM (#7431827)
good points, and great article! Maybe you know better than I do, were Neal Goldman and co-founders originally Bloomberg guys?
Re:Can the Bloomberg Terminal be "Toppled"? by mcfunley on Thursday March 20, 2014 @01:22AM (#7434042)
They were all investment bankers. Originally they were competing with Factset and Thomson, not so much Bloomberg.