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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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Building Scalable Startups: Strategies for Long-Term Growth

American Entrepreneurship

A scalable business model refers to a framework that enables a company to increase revenue without a proportionate increase in operational costs. What Is a Scalable Business Model? This simply means that your expenses do not grow at the same rate as your revenue.

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The Complete Guide to SaaS Pricing Strategy

Tomasz Tunguz

Your Startup’s Unit Economics Your pricing plan has to enable the company to become profitable at some point. Enables natural expansion : MongoDB and Ethereum, two database companies with nearly identical revenue trajectories through 2020, both employ usage-based models that have supported their explosive growth.

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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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7 investors discuss web3’s present and peer into its future

TechCrunch

Please give us your web3 elevator pitch: What is it, and what role does it play in today’s internet framework? . I dove headfirst into the space when I understood that we’re in the midst of a cultural revolution enabled by technology — not the other way around. ” Lior Messika, founder and managing partner, Eden Block.

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Singapore-based open finance startup Finantier gets backing from Y Combinator

TechCrunch

It also includes machine-learning-based analytics to enable credit scoring and KYC verifications. Finantier was founded earlier this year by Diego Rojas, Keng Low and Edwin Kusuma, all of whom have experience building products for fintech companies, with the mission of enabling open finance in emerging markets.

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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.