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Fintech and the kill switch
The Car Finance Company simply kills your car if you don’t keep up the payments – what’d happen if this was a widespread payment model? The art of linking One characteristic feature of many new business models capable of rattling the bars of established industries (avoiding using the dreaded dis****ion word here!) is that they link together technologies and ideas probably already familiar, but...
Read moreInsurance moves from individualisation to the “group mind”
Danish company Gobundl harvests (well, harvested) the power of the “group mind” to rethink the traditional fintech focus in insurance From individualisation to the “group mind” One of the big “blessings” in our IT-driven, highly automated world lies in the degree of individualisation now available in so many goods and services. One of the key features of digital expansion is that the costs of making/processing...
Read moreRethinking the black magic of new company names
From descriptive and inspirational to bland and nonsensical, company names can be glorious opportunities or risk-laden pitfalls. In the world of digitally focused business, there’s been a tsunami of new company names that’d have been inconceivable twenty years ago. Made-up names, weirdo words and alphabet soups, all in service of the need to register a URL not already shanghaied by either potential competitors or...
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