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What’s FinTech, And What Does It Mean For Your Business?

YoungUpstarts

in investments in 2015, $15.2B FinTech had started to grow popular soon after global financial crisis happened, fueled by public’s distrust of banks and incumbent legacy firms, and then exploded in 2015. That was basically the message of most advertising campaigns of FinTech companies back then. The industry reached $15.5B

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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. ReadyTalk became interested in Lean Startup principles to develop new lines of business. With this approach to establishing and tracking milestones, ReadyTalk launched its beta of UbiMeet.com in March 2015.

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5 Priorities Before You Bypass Professional Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Startups need to build a large passionate group of fans before the campaign. Don’t expect to run a crowdfunding campaign in your free time. If you want money, rather than just feedback, you need to actually design, develop, and prove that you have something worth people’s hard-earned funds before you launch your campaign.

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Cyber Threats Startups Need To Watch Out For In 2015

YoungUpstarts

Also, if it’s a company where the owner is wearing the hat of the CIO, information security officer, manager, web developer, and he’s managing everything because he is a startup owner, that person’s business is at a high risk of being a victim to cyber crime activity. Why are startups so exposed?

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5 Ways Crowdfunding Is Not A Panacea For New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

Startups need to build a large passionate group of fans before the campaign. Don’t expect to run a crowdfunding campaign in your free time. If you want money, rather than just feedback, you need to actually design, develop, and prove that you have something worth people’s hard-earned funds before you launch your campaign.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

The number of patents filed in 2021 is more than 30 times higher than in 2015 as companies and countries across the world have realized that AI and Machine Learning will be a major disruptor and potentially change the balance of military power. It uses new words to define programming steps, job descriptions, development tools, etc.

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19 Psychological Tactics for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

ConversionXL

I scoured the academic research on crowdfunding, philanthropy, and helping behavior to understand when and why people donate money (and how you can use those principles in a crowdfunding campaign). But indirect reciprocity plays a powerful role in online communities, such as open-source development. donating to your campaign).