Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, is close to achieving his funding goal for the independent WikiTribune, a journalism enterprise that operates on many of the same principles as Wikipedia but is a separate business operation. Can Wales transfer the magic that transformed the encyclopedia model into journalism? Jimmy Wales close to achieving initial goals for WikiTribune With just one day to go before ending their initial fundraising efforts, the WikiTribune has funded nine of the ten journalists it originally targeted. Wales told ValueWalk he is “confident” WikiTribune is going to hit his fundraising target and embark on a new business…
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Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.