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Business Model Canvas – Transferwise

#Fintech Transferwise Transferwise is a borderless, digital-only currency exchange platform with more than 6 million users. Founded in 2010, the company has pioneered the low-fee model, helping custom…

Business Model Canvas – Farfetch

#Fashion Farfetch Farfetch is an online luxury fashion retailer, a company that pioneered a tech-driven model that doesn’t rely on owning inventory. They platformized the supply chain and create…

What is Strategy?

Searching for an acceptable definition of what ‘strategy’ is is difficult nowadays, especially in an increasingly digital economy. Furthermore, when you consider the fact that many of this…

Challenger Banks and the New Economy

Challenger Banks (aka NeoBanks) are on the rise. Their growth has been spurred by consumer frustration with the old guard – stemming from the ’08 financial crisis – and a massive war…

Business Model Canvas – CoLiving

#Housing What is Coliving? Quick Pitch – Coliving is a more communal way of living, where costs and space are shared in such a way that residents feel an enhanced quality of life and a greater s…

Business Model Canvas – N26

#Fintech N26.com Quick Pitch – N26 is ‘the Mobile Bank,’ one of the world’s top challenger banks based out of Germany, offering the ability to open a bank account in ‘8 m…

Innovation+ > Vision

There is vision and then there are visionaries. Not all of us are visionaries, but to make innovation work we all need some vision. Where is the market going? What does the future look lik…

Innovation+ > Inflection

Have a look on Linked-In and you will see ‘experts’ on entrepreneurship and innovation on millions of profiles. How are there so many experts? Simple. They once were part…

Hubdot Business Model – A Conversation with Simona

Below is a conversation around the Hubdot KT (Kitchen Table) with Simona Barbieri, Founder and Creative Director of Hubdot. We talk about the story of the Lumos-Hubdot connection, the Hubdot vis…

How Innovations Arise

Could it be true that innovations are not random but actually predictable? That’s what a new mathematical study earlier this year by Vittorio Loreto and co. at the University of Rome concluded. …

Business Model Canvas – Equity Crowdfunding

#Fintech Equity Crowdfunding Over the course of the last decade, crowdfunding has caught fire worldwide. First, it was Kickstarter in 2009 and the inception of ‘rewards’ or donation-based …

Bitcoin – Data

2019 has been an epic year in Cryptocurrency history, dominated by another rise in Bitcoin price. But as we close in on the end of Q3, and the price hovers around $10K USD, the question is how it will…

Business Model Innovation – OakNorth

In a sea of Fintech ‘Unicorns’ that bleed red and burn through $billions of VC money, one company stands out – OakNorth Bank. As Europe’s most valuable unicorn, we will look at…

Strategy for the New Economy