Several startups recently complained to me how frustrated they are with Big 4 advisors and large law firms.“For all they money we are paying them, they came to the conclusion that our services should be subject to VAT, and then only by accident we discovered that they shouldn’t”“They took two Read more…
I’d like to share with you my favourite podcasts for entrepreneurs, small businesses and anyone interested in building and marketing your business online. Amy Porterfield: Digital Marketing Made Easy. By far my favorite. Especially I like tips and strategies around understanding your target audience, finding your voice, setting up Read more…
I wrote this comparison between Amazon and PayPal in 2014, but funnily enough, it might still be almost accurate (but treat this with a huge degree of irony, please 🙂 ) Meeting style Too many aggressively opinionated people To many politely indecisive people Attitude to PowerPoint Read more…
FREE Templates and Downloads HERE=>: DIGITAL KYC – YOUR FREE CHECKLIST FREE SWOT ANALYSIS TEMPLATE FOR FINTECH How to trust a Startup? Having worked with bitFlyer, TenX, BitPesa, PayPal, and Amazon, I get coffee invitations and lunch and drinks invitations all the time: startup founders would like to pick up Read more…
Over the last months I have interviewed many compliance experts who wanted (or at least considered) making a career change, living their corporate jobs and moving into a FinTech startup. One of the common reasons was “my job no longer makes me happy” – and it was not about money. Read more…
When I just started my consultancy business, I was approaching many great Fintechs and repeatedly got rejected. Most of the companies liked my profile and were willing to hire me as an employee. They saw compliance as a strictly in-house function and did not want to have a strange part-time Read more…
