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How entrepreneurs benefit from ‘Alien Thinking’

Entrepreneurs' Organization

But the alien metaphor serves as a neat acronym for the five dimensions of our ALIEN thinking framework: A for Attention. Current innovation frameworks–think lean startup or design sprint–emphasize speed and action over reflection and strategic breaks. L for Levitation (meaning reflection). I for Imagination.

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B2FI: Demystifying Software Sales Into Financial Institutions

Andreessen Horowitz

The MEDDICC Sales Framework To share what we’ve learned from the fintech founders and operators we’ve spoken to about this topic, we have collated their advice under an overarching sales framework known as MEDDICC. Keep in mind: this sales framework is not linear , and these steps should be taken in tandem, not sequentially.

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Impact Hub: Our policy approach

Impact Hub

Our 110 communities are diverse yet they all need an enabling environment of supportive regulatory frameworks, inclusive economic development initiatives, stronger social and environmental sustainability standards, and a brave impact funding environment. To date, our community has reached over 25,000 such impact-driven enterprises.

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Pricing and Packaging Your B2B or Prosumer Generative AI Feature

Andreessen Horowitz

We’re in the very early days of genAI and until adoption curves and costs stabilize, there won’t be any tried-and-true pricing or packaging frameworks. If your other, more high-powered genAI feature enables your power users, you could gate that feature and charge more for it. Pricing: subscription or hybrid?

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Paycoin announces expansion into global crypto payments market, partnership with TripleA

AsiaTechDaily

Barbier referred to their deal with Payprotocol AG as a “mutually beneficial partnership” that will connect PayProtocol with merchants globally while giving TripleA keen insights into the Korean market. Paycoin, for its part, expanded to Singapore as its first global market due to the strong crypto regulatory frameworks available there.

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With open banking on the horizon, the fintech-SME love story is just beginning

TechCrunch

At its most fundamental level, open banking refers to the process of using APIs to open up consumers’ financial data to third parties. This is not necessarily because open-banking frameworks offer specific new functionality that will be useful to small and medium-sized businesses.

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Where is suptech heading?

TechCrunch

The World Bank states that suptech “refers to the use of technology to facilitate and enhance supervisory processes from the perspective of supervisory authorities.” As a preliminary matter, we should quickly survey a few definitions of suptech to frame our understanding. ” It’s a little circular, but helpful.

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