What else can I say except hip, hip, hooray!I don't usually post on politics here - it really has nothing to do with being a CEO or FirstRain, but today is such a big day I'll stray for once. My sense of relief when CNN declared for Barack Obama was overwhelming. Relief that the steady move to the right of the Supreme Court can be stopped - that women's rights will be preserved and restored. Combined with the relief was a surge of hope. Hope that my children can grow [...]

I can't say I am sorry to see the back of 2007. On one hand it was a terrific year. My immediate family is thriving and FirstRain is growing like gangbusters - no question this is the year for us on many levels: the thirst in hedge funds and executive teams for an information edge, the web as a source of meaningful research and our breakthrough models and algorithms.But, all that said, on many levels it was challenging year.In my small world in 2007 we lost a larger than life [...]