Quiet Speculation LLC

<p><strong>QuietSpeculation.com </strong>started as a one-man blog, written by a guy laid off from a dying startup. &nbsp;He rediscovered his childhood hobby of Magic: The Gathering, a collectible, tradable card game produced by Hasbro. &nbsp;Returning to the game after many years away, he found that the internet had grown up around it and as a result, this collectible game now had a highly active secondary market on sites like eBay, Amazon and many individual specialty stores. &nbsp;Having just passed the Series 7 stock broker exam, the two worlds collided; it was possible to analyze online trends and predict the future price of these cards, and the blog was born.</p><p>The site quickly grew to 1000+ daily visits in its first few months of existence and struggled to keep up with a voracious readership's demand for MORE CONTENT. Quiet Speculation (named after the founder's favorite Magic: The Gathering card) grew steadily for 18 months and, on January 1st 2011, the site switched over to a pay-to-read model. &nbsp;Along with the growth came a non-technical co-founder, a junior editor, and a group of freelance writers. &nbsp;The team has continued to expand from there.</p><p>That summer, work began on software that could gather and analyze prices from dozens of different online sources. &nbsp;Realizing that this was the future of Magic's online marketplace, the team expanded to bring in more technical talent. &nbsp;One of the co-founders took it upon himself to learn and become the company's lead engineer. &nbsp;After many false starts and delays, their debut product released on Monday December 10th, 2012. &nbsp;For Magic players, it represents a quantum leap in their ability to trade cards with each other, online and off. &nbsp;The company that had considered itself more of a Wall Street Journal is now taking a page out of Bloomberg's playbook, and the market couldn't be more ready.</p><p><em>Quiet Speculation is 100% bootstrapped and is not currently seeking funding.</em></p>