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What’s next for buy now, pay later? Six insights from our panel

Beyond payments: Are BNPL apps the next frontier for ecommerce?

Six ways to make your subscription stand out

Subscription models: Everyone’s got one, so how do you make a good one?

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?

From robo-advisers to NFTs: Six insights from our wealthtech panel

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

Where should scaleups be spending their cash? Seven insights from our panel

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

“Everyone’s a fintech now”… or are they? Why embedded finance is harder than it looks

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

The conversion killer: How to avoid a bad customer journey

What’s holding electrification back? We asked the experts

Saving the planet: Are we ready for mass electrification?

Six insights from our talk on customer churn

How to measure and prevent customer churn

How will I know when to exit? 6 insights from our panel

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

Do successful startups need to base their HQ in a capital city?

DEI: What resources do underrepresented founders really need?

Tech for good: How to set up a social enterprise

How can local governments support founders in their post-Covid recovery?

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?

What’s venture debt? 6 insights from our panel on debt vs equity

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

Are we about to experience a great green mobility revolution?

Is IoT for pets about to take off?

Connected pets: what are the opportunities for startups?

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

Five ways to accelerate tech for good

Accelerating tech for good – can tech innovations have a real impact?

How to market in a crisis

How to pivot your startup in uncertain times

What’s happening to the talent market?

Runway management - how to control costs during the crisis

Digital doctor consultations: what happens next?

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

The secret to creating a pet tech unicorn? Community

Creating Europe's first pet tech unicorn

Fintechs, this is how to keep growing in a crisis

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

Sifted "Open Newsroom"

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

Vera Lakmaker

Matthew Wilson

Jessica Zwaan

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

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