Fred Destin, founder of London-based Stride.VC, has been in the venture business for more than two decades, and what he sees now in the startup investment world is not surprisingly a substantially tightening economic picture. Startup valuations are falling by 30-50%. Volume of deals getting done are down by 30-50%. Read more…
In the early days of the Internet, regulation was scant and early adopters were able to generally dictate how they operated. But as more of our personal information is digitized and stored electronically, regulatory bodies have started to step in to pass laws in an effort to protect consumers. Perhaps Read more…
Guest post by by Marten Mickos, CEO of HackerOne Innovation is a change that creates a new dimension of performance. In March of 2020, HackerOne was ranked by Fast Company as the 5th most innovative company in the whole world for putting hackers to work. How is that an innovation? Read more…
Guest post by Rick Merritt, Staff Writer at NVIDIA According to Hicham Oudghiri, chief executive of Enigma, if their Financial Technology (FinTech) startup ever needed to quickly validate a small or medium business for a loan, they would need an easy and fast way to ensure no fraud was taking Read more…
Guest post by Yared Ayalew, Product Owner & Acacio Santos, Senior System Engineer, Backbase Backbase is a leader in digital first, omni-channel banking platform and creator of the Backbase Digital-First Banking Platform, a state-of-the-art digital banking software solution that unifies data and functionality from traditional core systems and new fintech players Read more…
“Protect yourself from mayhem.” “15 minutes could save you 15% or more.” “You’re in good hands.” Do those slogans sound familiar? It’s probably because insurance companies heavily invest in marketing, bombarding us with varying messages that try and attach a sense of fun and security to an industry that counts Read more…
Guest post by Meaghan Casey, Global Startup Partner Manager, AWS Finding the right mentors at the right time is key to building a successful career. Mentors provide advice, feedback, coaching, and introductions that can take your career to the next level. If you are a founder, the stakes multiply because Read more…
Matt Clifford, co-founder and CEO of Entrepreneur First, takes a global view when investing in people and their ideas. Clifford joins Richard Howard to discuss what he is seeing right now in the startup landscape from London, to Paris, Berlin, Singapore, Bangalore and Toronto – all places where the firm Read more…
Guest post by Robert Schweizer, Senior Software Engineer, CAPMO The analog disaster of (not so) modern construction sites The construction industry in Germany is second to last when it comes to digitalization. Only the fishing and hunting industry relies equally on analog processes and paper-based communication. This backwardness is certainly Read more…
Post by Mathew Rowlands, AWS Senior Solutions Architect and Antoine Brochet, AWS Senior Business Development Manager In our roles as AWS Startup Solutions Architects and Business Development Managers, we constantly work with startups to help them architect their cloud infrastructures from the ground up and to optimize their existing infrastructures Read more…