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How can startups clean up their supply chain? Five things we learned from our panel

Lightening the load: How can startups clean up their supply chain?

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Robo-advisers and NFTs: Inside the wealthtech battle for millennials

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Investing for growth: Where should scaleups be spending their cash?

Why more startups are buying startups

Startups buying startups: Exploring the billion-euro trend

Can startups build a better construction industry?

Built to last: Is construction too big to disrupt?

Understanding embedded finance FOMO: 5 insights from our panel

How to diversify your revenue stream with embedded finance

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“Everyone's a fintech now”: How embedded finance is changing the payments game

The conversion killer: How to avoid a bad customer journey

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Saving the planet: Are we ready for mass electrification?

Six insights from our talk on customer churn

How to measure and prevent customer churn

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IPO or sale: How will I know when to exit?

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DEI: What resources do underrepresented founders really need?

Tech for good: How to set up a social enterprise

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6 reasons why VCs say ‘no’

Why VCs say ‘no’

What’s next for last-mile delivery? 7 insights from our expert panel

Last-mile delivery: What's real and what's hype?

6 insights from our talk on open banking payments

Payments: The next battle in open banking

How did Lithuania become the EU’s hottest fintech hub? 6 insights from our expert panel

How did Lithuania become fintech’s latest hotspot?

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Debt vs. equity: What you need to know

6 ways employers can break the ‘money taboo’ at work

Employee financial wellbeing: Should you let your boss into your bank account?

6 tips for getting customers to trust your brand

How to build a brand your customers actually love

7 insights from our panel on Gen Z finance

Gen Z in finance: How fintechs are preparing for the next generation

6 lessons on using SaaS to scale your business

Founder’s toolkit: Which tools does every startup need?

6 lessons on online privacy and digital authentication

What to expect from the future of digital identiﬁcation?

6 tips for using data to grow your startup

Crunching the numbers: How to use data to grow your startup

Cat tech: A purr-fect VC opportunity

It’s meow or never: Is cat tech about to take off?

6 sales tips for SaaS startups

Stay SaaSy: How to sell SaaS in a crowded market

Building tech ecosystems in a distributed world

6 insights from our panel on remote-first companies

Borders without boundaries: Who needs an HQ anymore?

7 tips for maintaining company culture, remotely

Keeping the team together — apart: How to manage culture when your startup goes remote

Escooters aren’t as green as public transport — but they’re on their way

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Startup funding during the crisis: what's really going on?

Five ways to accelerate tech for good

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How to market in a crisis

How to pivot your startup in uncertain times

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Runway management - how to control costs during the crisis

Digital doctor consultations: what happens next?

Digital Doctors: Will they be a one-pandemic wonder?

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Creating Europe's first pet tech unicorn

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Investing for the Future: Financial decisions every fintech should be thinking about

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How Europe can dominate the next decade of tech

How can Europe step up to global tech leadership?

How to make your startup a data-driven dream

How startups can use their financial data to get ahead

Is Open Finance worth getting excited about, or is it just spin?

Fintech after the crisis: from open banking to open finance

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Tim Smith

Xavier Castellana

Guillaume Nordlinger

Erin Reiger Zas

How can finance teams find — and retain — talent? Five things we learned from our panel

The Great Resignation: How can finance teams find — and retain — talent?

Julia Candlemaker

Charles Babbage

Ivy Stallone

The SaaS power couple you need: 6 ways to marry product-led and sales-led growth

The SaaS power couple you need: How to marry product-led and sales-led growth

Oscar Höglund

George Robson

Alison Tierney

Gauthier Van Malderen

Maija Palmer

Five ways underdogs can compete with industry giants

The underdog survival guide: How to compete with industry giants

Alice de Courcy

Shira Feuer

Tricia Miller

Gareth Nettleton

Kit Gillet

How to build a brand without breaking the bank: Five things we learned from our panel

How to build a brand without breaking the bank

Raising the roof

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Helery Pops

Napala Pratini

Michael Riegel

Katia Yakovleva

Kai Nicol-Schwarz

Want to nail your next big fundraise? Do these five things

Raising the roof: How to prepare for your fundraising roadshow

Pauline Foessel

Keith Grose

Szymon Sypniewicz

Amy O’Brien

Is crypto eating the world? Five things we learned from our panel

A decentralised future: Is crypto eating the world?

Brian Donohue

Ingrid Ødegaard

Martin Sokk

Vilve Vene

Kathryn Wright

Improvise, adapt, pivot: Five tips for finding product-market fit

Improvise, adapt, pivot: What to do when the product you’re building isn’t quite right

Chunky cheques, bold bets

Aaron Archer

Valentina Milanova

Uthish Ranjan

Glen Waters

Tom Nugent

Chunky cheques and bold bets: Five ways to prepare for your Series A

Chunky cheques, bold bets: How to prepare for your Series A

Eléonore Crespo

Anita Koimur

Nichole Mace

Indra Sharma

Does freemium actually work? Five things we learned from our panel

The go-to-market shakeup: Is tech taking over sales?

Behind the unicorn buzz

Stefano Vaccino

Jenny von Podewils

Andreas Weiskam

Eleanor Warnock

Behind the unicorn buzz: Five ways to build a breakout B2B business

Behind the unicorn buzz: How to build a breakout B2B business

Chasing gigacorns

Hampus Jakobsson

Lubomila Jordanova

Jia Hong Shaw

Danijel Višević

Freya Pratty

Chasing gigacorns: Five things we learnt about investing in climate tech

Chasing gigacorns: What are VCs after when they invest in climate tech?

Zak Lambert

Josipa Majic

Victor Trokoudes

The rise and rise of social investing — four things we learned from our panel

The rise and rise of social investing: You are what you digitally invest in

Miriam Partington

Gonçalo Hall

Digital nomads and the global office: Five ways startups make remote working work

The global office: We’ve all tried remote, so how can startups make it work?

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