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== Competition == '''Who are the main competitors?''' Hedge is a holistic solution with several new features, like group investing, that aren’t offered by any of its popular competitors. These are offered in addition to many of the standard features found in retail investing – allowing Hedge users to invest as individuals and/or with friends, to access interactive learning resources, and to collaborate with other users in a dynamic social platform introducing new mediums to social investing to help communities grow together. [[File:2f1ddc233130e0e839e5b332fc0624858f53d3c2.png]] === Group investing: === No serious competitors. === Partial Competitors: === * Iris (social-only) * Public (indv. investing + some social) * Finary (social only) * Robinhood (indv. investing only) * Webull (indv. investing only) === What’s wrong with these platforms (high-level)? === Market incumbents have fallen out of touch with the target demographic. Platforms like Robinhood & WeBull that offer investment services on an individual level are no longer nimble enough to shift their entire business model into something completely different. Social investment platforms (ie. Public, StockTwits, CommonStock, etc.) are incomplete solutions with limited product offerings that often exclude investing entirely and look more like a transplant of investing Twitter, than a place where investors can grow together. === What makes Hedge better? === ==== Overview ==== Hedge is a holistic solution with several new features that are not offered by any of our popular competitors, and brings them in addition to many of the standard features found on retail investing platforms (ie. individual investing, a social feed, group chats). We are differentiating ourselves from Day 1 and offer several brand new features not found amongst any of our key competitors. The most significant of these include: * Group Investing * Interactive Learning Resources * Investor Communities * Web3 Assets These are just a few of the differentiating features offered, with several of them alone representing multi-billion dollar opportunities. We also don’t intend to stop there and have carefully planned and designed our platform in accordance with a long-term plan to grow alongside our users, expand our product offerings, and retain our users over time as they evolve. ==== The Investing Vertical ==== The investing side of things is pretty simple. Group investing is like Fidelity in the 80s right now. The only way to do it takes about 2 weeks and requires a printer, a fax machine, and being able to fill out dozens of pages with all of your group member’s social security numbers. Robinhood doesn’t offer a retirement account right now - let alone for users to make a hedge fund with their friends and start investing as a group. Meanwhile, Hedge gives users the same capabilities as a Robinhood or a WeBull for individual trading, and then add on group investing, a social platform with a social feed, group chats, and investor communities; as well as an interactive learning platform, web3 assets, dynamic market and community-sourced data, and a whole lot more. We’re built by retail traders, for retail traders. Hedge helps users grow together, enables smarter investments by providing resources they can use to learn to invest, and offers a social platform that features a network of communities where anyone can expand their investor network. ==== The Social Side of Things ==== Existing social investing apps typically offer little more than private group chats and a public social feed. While it’s true that these are two important features (which are included on Hedge as well), they alone are incapable of delivering on the intended functionality and ultimately lead to a non-inclusive culture. We like to describe our social platform as Reddit-style communities, layered on top of investing Twitter - with the former being one of the key differentiators missing from so many social investing competitors. These investor communities are essential for cultivating the kinds of organic connections and deep conversations between users that will get them comfortable investing with each other without having known each other prior to Hedge. A public social feed is great for memes, polls, and other quick, instant-gratification interactions, but it fails to allow subsets of the user base to form communities for a broad variety of interests, topics, member demographics, and other segments within the broader user base. Without communities, this would ultimately limit the level of engagement that users will have and cap the growth of their investor network. Hedge is able to eliminate this problem and to facilitate many different types of engagement across a broad range of topics by allowing users to interact in various social mediums, with investor communities providing the unique benefit of helping users choose the context, topic, and audience they wish to engage with to find other investors to collaborate and invest with. We’re also taking the clear intent from the very start of community development efforts to cultivate an inclusive community. One of the things we like to say at Hedge is - “if you don’t give a sh*t on Day 1, no one will believe you when you say you do on Day 1000”. Once a platform’s culture is established, it becomes very hard to change. This generally happens in the first 3-6 months (barring any unusual circumstances) which makes seeding the initial community with the right people incredibly important. Being in the stage that we are, actually gives Hedge a unique advantage here, as it allows us to be the first to do things right from the start, and to capitalize on a previously untapped market that is worth billions.
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