Hey Mike Congrats on the launch, the site looks great.
I'm actually also a qualified financial advisor so I think it's a great platform and I'd definitely use it for my own personal portfolio. My only question is, what is your feedback from 'leaders' - ie. the transparency of the site in seeing peoples trades is awesome from an end user/follower perspective, but I'm not too sure that if I were a sh*t hot broker that I'd want everyone knowing my trading history/ strategies...so I guess I'm just curious to see what your feedback has been from professional/regular traders. Cheers Avis @avismulhall On Feb 3, 6:33 am, Michael Giles <m...@roboinvest.com> wrote: > Hey thanks everyone for all the comments. The activity has been > interesting - check out this college kidhttp://www.roboinvest.com/mitchmeabe/ > and this leader runs a newsletter who is also doing great in only a > few days -http://www.roboinvest.com/SmarTrend/ > > I'm interested to know what would make it more interesting to you, as > a beginner investor, to use the platform? Would you like to know how > the leader does it? (ie, their trading/investment strategy?) More > communication from the leader to their followers? Or just more > education on investing in general? > > @Shane thats good feedback thanks. > > @Geoff spot on! > > @Matt thanks! > > @AndrewR & co - RE competition - I'm familiar with the competition and > know most of the founders and CEO's personally as i've met them around > the traps, which is the awesome thing about working on a startup like > this in New York City. > > @David @Vinko We're focused to the US market right now, but we've > built the platform to be broker-neutral and will add more brokers > soon. The Australian market is in the roadmap however it is quite > small comparatively - for example, E*TRADE has 2.8 million online > investing customers, and the entire Australian market (CommSec, > E*TRADE Australia, Westpac, etc) is about 2.5 million. However, > Australian's can still follow a leader and trade CFD's over US listed > stocks that our current users are trading, so check it out if you are > into it. > > @Chris on Profitly - Roboinvest has direct real time integration which > others don't - but Tim is a great bloke (and great marketer!) and we > speak often. > > @Andrew small world hey, ill hit you up about that. > > Thanks for all the feedback. > > Cheers > > Mike > On Twitter? Follow me athttp://twitter.com/harland > > On Feb 2, 1:08 am, Vinko Grgic <vinko.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hey Mike, > > Site looks great and what a great concept. I tried dabbling in > > investments a few years back, signed up for a Westpac Online Investing > > account (they've been my bank for ages) but then as mentioned by other > > people just didn't know how to begin. I am excited at the prospects of > > being able to use a site like yours to get started. Basically you have > > reignited my interest in investments. I do think the site functions > > beautifully well (account, profile and social integration are smooth > > and classy), but like Chris Were stated - I would like to see more > > platforms available other than e*trade (which is American?). I am not > > sure what platform Westpac OI uses but if Roboinvest supported it and > > I could connect the two accounts, I would have likely already put some > > money in. > > > Great work mate, all the best > > Vinko Grgicwww.arribaa.com > > > On Feb 1, 7:25 am, Michael Giles <m...@roboinvest.com> wrote: > > > > G'day Silicon Beachers, > > > > Some here will know me, most probably wont. > > > > I wanted to tell the community that my startup Roboinvest (http:// > > > roboinvest.com) has officially launched. This recent article summed > > > us up pretty well > > > -http://www.mybanktracker.com/bank-news/2012/01/29/social-investing-ma.... > > > > I founded the company 18 months ago in Melbourne, then 12 months ago > > > did a stint at RPI (college in upstate New York -http://rpi.edu), > > > then 6 months ago moved the company to New York City where i am > > > currently based. I have raised a small amount of funding and have an > > > E-2 visa. > > > > To give you a quick elevator pitch, Roboinvest is a US based social > > > investing platform, with direct integration to E*TRADE, that allows > > > self directed investors (we call followers) to "look over the > > > shoulder" of verified top investors (we call leaders) in real time, > > > using a subscription based pay-to-follow model, that's statistically > > > proven to increase profitability by 66%. > > > > Essentially followers get to see what leaders are investing in, the > > > second the leader does a trade. > > > > If finance and investing is your thing, please check it out and send > > > me your feedback - i would love to hear it! > > > > Also, for any fellow Aussies in NYC that i havent met or any Aussies > > > coming over to NYC feel free to reach out to me. > > > > Cheers > > > > Michael "Mike" Gileshttp://twitter.com/harland > > > #TradeResponsibly -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. 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