917 Results from /startups
Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions
Every now and then I come across a techie complaining that their sales is overselling, thus making their job of creating a satisfied customer harder. For example, take this OP on Quora, who asks: Is it common to oversell in B2B? My boss has a tendency to oversell our company services, but the tech team can't keep up. I’m new to the B2B setting. I ...
23 October 2017 /startups
Retired Member
Fundraising... The eternal topic at of any start-up conversation. And understandably so. Funding is scale, scale is success. Success is happiness… Right? After raising the biggest ever Aussie A-round earlier in the year, it’s never far from any event we attend. How do you get the big players interested? How did you get your val? While I don’t profe...
10 October 2017 /startups Fintech
You can’t successfully become a data led organisation without the right leadership. A recent study, conducted by Forrester in collaboration with Atos, found that the adoption of data analytics is already at 40% and is set to grow to 90% by 2020, but most organizations continue to struggle when it comes to moving from raw data to insights. Nowhere ...
06 October 2017 /startups Disruption in Retail Banking
Anthony Pickup Consultant at Capgemini Invent
Stumbling on news that a new payment network Satispay[1] from Italy gaining significant FINTECH investment. Looking at other payment schemes I wondered what made this so attractive to invest 27m Euros? The Satispay mobile payment model is where customers set a weekly budget for spending at merchants that tops up automatically from their bank acco...
29 September 2017 /payments /startups Fintech
Sameer Singh Jaini CEO at www.TheDigitalFifth.com
Everyday I meet enthusiastic Fintech entrepreneurs, who have started their Fintech Businesses focused on lending, wealth management, payments etc. Most of these entrepreneurs have business background like sales / marketing / product. In their hurry to launch the business, typically they start without Tech... Few suggestions to improve the possibil...
20 August 2017 /startups Fintech innovation and startups
Following the US and UK models, RBI is all set to jump on the bandwagon of regulating the P2P space with strict guidelines. The norms being finalised are expected to release in a few weeks, how are the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms faring? What is their stance on this? Will the stringent norms curb the innovation? Instead of speculating we...
05 August 2017 /regulation /startups Fintech
Chris Brown CTO at Trusek AND Authentiq8 Me
In recent years there have been a significant number of new "neo-banks" or "challenger banks" launched with much hype, here in the UK. Many of these appear to have been brought to market quickly, on the back of a pre-paid card platform and are buying customers now with a plan to build a revenue model in the future. Whilst I a...
14 July 2017 /startups Fintech innovation and startups
It has been two magical decades since our favorite fandom hit the bookshelves. While my fellow Potterheads are celebrating this moment, I wanted to take a moment to appreciate this incredible milestone in my style. When I was pondering on how to incorporate my favorite series into our blog posts, I overheard a discussion about lifting the hiring f...
09 July 2017 /startups Whatever...
Money makes the business world spin. It is the blood of the global economy and the air companies breathe. Alas, a team of professional financial advisers can cost an arm and a leg. Some small businesses and startups operate on a shoestring budget and cannot afford in-house bookkeepers and accountants. That is why business owners need to develop a ...
05 July 2017 /startups Finance 2.0
Prateek Saxena Managing Director at Appinventiv
Being an entrepreneur is a great thing in itself! It means that you are ready to ditch the 9-5 hectic schedule and ‘rule your own world’; you have a fantabulous idea and are all set to build your own business with no road map. As an entrepreneur, I can understand how amazing this feeling is, but I would like to remind you that most of the startups...
29 June 2017 /startups
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