Product
Your product is only 20% unique (but that’s where you win)
I'm going to start with an unpopular opinion that we proposition design purists like to convince ourselves isn't true: sometimes it's ok to launch a clone.
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Stop mistaking clever features for intelligent services
One of the biggest challenges when building new digital financial services is creating a winning feature set. Spending categorisation, budgeting tools, carbon f...
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Financial services needs to start speaking to the female customer
Note – I use female loosely here to include all those who identify with feminine traits, partially, wholly or barely. The idea is not to be gender normative or ...
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Designers are not the centre of the universe
Designers can all too easily think design is at the centre of the universe. Perhaps sometimes it can be a self-indulgent activity where it's no longer design fo...
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What’s going on in African insurtech?
Africa is the second biggest continent in the world with a population of 1.3 billion. It makes up 20% of the Earth’s total land surface. It comprises 54 countri...
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What we’ve learned from 4 years of building fintechs
Four years doesn’t sound like much but in the rapidly changing world of fintech it feels like forever. It’s hard to say for sure when the phenomenon started.
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New neobanks need to take bolder bets
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