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StoryTold’s CEO Dmitry Kompanets on Helping Parents Build Meaningful Relationships with Children in the Age of YouTube
The overuse of technology has leapfrogged all other parental worries to occupy the top spot, according to the annual Brigham Young American Family Survey. A more worrying conclusion of a study of family media habits is that the time that kids spend online is not at all influenced by their parents. Dmitry Kompanets realized that part of his job as a parent was to help his kid make sense of...
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Clear Minds’ Patrik Hansson on How to Build an Investment Platform and Successfully Challenge Centuries of Tradition
What does it take to see through your idea become a fintech business competing at the heart of an established world-class industry supported by centuries of tradition, ingrained habits, and an uber-conservative customer base? How does one even think there’s a chance of taking a slice of the financial market in Switzerland? But where some see only unbeatable challenges, others find opportunities. We spoke with Patrik Hansson of Clear Minds,...
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PADI Travel’s Joel Perrenoud on How to Grow a Startup into the Leading Travel Service
The word startup implies a new beginning, but what it doesn’t imply is how difficult, and even scary, it might be. Some people try to start their businesses based on very safe ideas and still fail. Meanwhile, some risk everything they have over an extravagant selling proposition and manage to hit the nail on the head. We talked to Joel Perrenoud, founder of Diviac, a startup we supported from day...
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Innovating the Mortgage Industry: The Why and the How
Some things just appear and change our lives. They are barely noticeable to us, but after they arrive we can’t imagine how we lived before the change occurred. This is basically what happened with fintech. The industry started just a couple of years ago, yet it has caused a digital boom in the finance world. We spoke with Amitabh Ghatak, CPO at Molo Finance, about digital disruption in the financial sector...