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Minyanville

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Minyanville Media, Inc.
Company typePrivate C-Corp
IndustryOnline Publishing and Multimedia
Financial News & Commentary
Financial Education
Founded2002
FounderTodd Harrison
FateBought by T3 Live, 2014
HeadquartersManhattan, New York

Minyanville Media, Inc. was an Internet-based financial media and publishing company.

Investment and business articles and broadcasts were available directly on its website, and via licensing agreements with major financial websites that include Yahoo Finance, MSN Money, AOL Money & Finance and MarketWatch. More than 40 financial professionals publish bylined articles on Minyanville;[1] the company also provides subscription publications with market-specific analysis. Its website receives some 1,000,000 Unique Visitors per month, and is in the top 4,000 websites in the U.S.[2] Minyanville's content has earned an Emmy for Business and Financial Reporting for its web show "Minyanville's World in Review with Hoofy and Boo".[3]

Minyanville was started in 2002 by Todd Harrison, who had been a trader, fund manager, and senior executive on Wall Street, with such firms as Morgan Stanley and Galleon Group.[4] In July 2000, Harrison's first financial column appeared on TheStreet.com, which he wrote as a favour for a former colleague who was going on vacation. Harrison says his bearish commentary on tech stocks resonated with readers, and he soon became a featured columnist.[5]

In May 2014, Todd Harrison announced he was "looking for a new business model" stating the online media model was 'broken', and was putting Minyanville up for sale. Not necessarily to a competing media outfit, but ideally to a financial institution. Harrison was looking to turn Minyanville into an outlet that isn't depending on ads or chasing web traffic purely for traffic's sake[6]

Later in 2014, Minyanville was acquired by T3Live, the digital content and reader community absorbed there and the website shut down.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Minyanville". Archived from the original on 11 August 2010. Retrieved 21 June 2010.
  2. ^ "Quantcast". Retrieved 21 June 2010.
  3. ^ "PR Newswire".
  4. ^ Zendrian, Alexandra (28 September 2009). "Intelligent Investing Guest Profile". Forbes. Archived from the original on 18 September 2012. Retrieved 24 June 2010.
  5. ^ "Five Alive! Part I". Archived from the original on 17 April 2010. Retrieved 24 June 2010.
  6. ^ Vigna, Paul (May 20, 2014). "Minyanville's Harrison: Online Media Model Is Broken". MoneyBeat. WSJ.
  7. ^ Saut, Jeff (November 9, 2015). "2015 Recap of T3Live's Financial Festival". financialsense.com.
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