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Money should be exciting and rewarding, shouldn’t it? The emergence of neobanks can be thanked for the digitalisation of personal finance, the ease of banking from a click of a button and a transfer at the drop of a hat. They’ve helped us with financial budgeting, tracking and the management of money - anytime and almost anywhere. Yet it's a dread for many and a bore for most.
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Michael Wilkinson
22.02.2022
Cloud computing has removed many barriers to entry when it comes to starting a business. As a result, it has helped startups the world over to bring their ideas to life, scale rapidly and thrive over the last decade.
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David Roldan
18.02.2022
AI hasn’t just altered our everyday lives. It’s having a profound effect on how developers and businesses think about their relationship with the cloud. Maddyness spoke to Aaron Jones, CEO of Yepic AI, about the challenges virtual services present for cutting-edge startups and how he’s turning them into opportunities via OVHcloud’s platform-as-a-service offering.
15.02.2022
In recent years, a growing awareness of sustainability and social responsibility has seen Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) truly enter the mainstream, becoming increasingly important to a business’ reputation and to investors’ decision-making.
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Jessica Camus
14.02.2022
Having run my own startup and worked with over 100 different startups in a variety of capacities from founding team to consultant, I’ve identified 3 major reasons why startups fail to grow.
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Tristan Gillen
10.02.2022
Predictions about venture capital diverged from reality during the first year of the pandemic, as PitchBook summarised last July. When the stock market crashed in April of 2020, most anticipated that funding activity would slow down amidst the uncertainty of lockdowns, social distancing, and strains on the healthcare system.
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Laure Fischer
09.02.2022
The pandemic induced shift to remote and hybrid working gave us the chance to completely change the way we work. We had a golden opportunity to create a new paradigm, with more freedom, flexibility and autonomy. Yet just two years later, far too many companies appear to be falling into the same old trap, with ‘digital presenteeism’ becoming an increasing problem.
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Tariq Rauf
08.02.2022
Climate fintech is a cross-cutting sector covering the intersection of climate, finance and digital technology. It includes a range of financial product innovations, applications and platforms that serve as mediums between all stakeholders to catalyse decarbonisation.
07.02.2022
There’s a common misconception around brand loyalty. Customer loyalty is often attributed to how well they align with your brand values. Sure, this is important. But your brand values are a beacon to bring people in. You build connections with your customers every day through regular interactions. The shift to automated customer service threatens to undermine that connection.
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03.02.2022
Visionary, confident, outcasts, impulsive – these are all common stereotypes about startup leaders. But what qualities does a successful leader in this realm really need to have?
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Michał Schindler
01.02.2022
The words 'debt collection' have for a long time carried a whole load of negative connotations. From the customer's perspective, being contacted by a debt collector often brings on feelings of shame or embarrassment, despite the fact that most people fall behind on payments due to unexpected life events.
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Amon Ghaiumy
27.01.2022
Last year will be unique in many ways, but one thing that will be repeated in 2022 is that hiring will still be tough. Unlike previous economic shocks there is no big pool of talent that has lost their jobs. We still have significantly less qualified people per job opening, so you’ll need to work hard to capture the right people.
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Alan Furley
25.01.2022
Right out of the gate, 2021 felt like the year that the world of late-stage investing was turned upside down. The invasion of non-traditional investors (“NTIs”) such as Private Equity Firms into the startup funding scene scrambled the rules about valuation and metrics that venture capitalists and entrepreneurs had spent decades refining.
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21.01.2022
Recent research from Handshake has revealed that 67% of Gen Z professionals no longer believe they must have in-person interactions with professional connections to form meaningful relationships.
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Bradley Foster
18.01.2022
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