
Quiet Speculation LLC
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QuietSpeculation.com started as a one-man blog, written by a guy laid off from a dying startup. He rediscovered his childhood hobby of Magic: The Gathering, a collectible, tradable card game produced by Hasbro. 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. 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.
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. Along with the growth came a non-technical co-founder, a junior editor, and a group of freelance writers. The team has continued to expand from there.
That summer, work began on software that could gather and analyze prices from dozens of different online sources. Realizing that this was the future of Magic's online marketplace, the team expanded to bring in more technical talent. One of the co-founders took it upon himself to learn and become the company's lead engineer. After many false starts and delays, their debut product released on Monday December 10th, 2012. For Magic players, it represents a quantum leap in their ability to trade cards with each other, online and off. 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.
Quiet Speculation is 100% bootstrapped and is not currently seeking funding.