Innovation Collider

05/01/2017

We are proud to announce our first LinkedIn Blog article, written as a joint effort of the three founders. We hope you enjoy the read!

It is an exciting time to be involved in digital sales and marketing; there are new tools constantly being released , and new methodologies to trial. While the right strategy and necessary toolset can

30/12/2016

Check out this article from ReadWrite about the future of IoT

This year we decided ask some of those working across our IoT verticals about the coming year. Here's what you told us, exclusive to ReadWrite.

29/12/2016

Machine learning is one of the biggest tech trends now. Most tech companies today have invested in and use machine learning in new projects.

14/12/2016

Over the last three months, the venture firm Social Capital has worked with the media outlet The Information to put together a look at the most diverse venture firms for the second year in a row. The teams say they gathered more than 6,000 data points about 580 senior investment professionals at the 72 most active U.S. venture firms to draw their conclusions.

Over the last three months, the venture firm Social Capital has worked with the media outlet The Information to put together a look at the most diverse..

12/12/2016

At what may be the oldest conference covering the payments, security and other trust-based industries, the newness of blockchain technology sparked both interest and skepticism.

12/12/2016

We are approaching a new phase of enterprise software, where every niche of Software-as-a-Service has been filled and cloud companies are being consolidated into larger companies. Markets have a tendency to cycle from bundling to unbundling, and software is due for a bundling event. The cloud, open APIs, next-generation messengers and machine learning are combining to turn the end-user interface to enterprise software into a unified experience.

We are approaching a new phase of enterprise software, where every niche of Software-as-a-Service has been filled and cloud companies are being consolidated..

11/12/2016

Rocket Internet has shuffled the online takeout pack of cards once again. This time the publicly-listed German ‘startup factory’ and investor is selling foodpanda to its much larger rival Delivery Hero, of which it also holds a significant stake.

Rocket Internet has shuffled the online takeout pack of cards once again. This time the publicly-listed German ‘startup factory’ and investor is selling..

11/12/2016

We tend to think of machines, in particular smart machines, as somehow cold, calculating and unbiased. We believe that self-driving cars will have no preference during life or death decisions between the driver and a random pedestrian. We trust that smart systems performing credit assessments will ignore everything except the genuinely impactful metrics, such as income and FICO scores.

We tend to think of machines, in particular smart machines, as somehow cold, calculating and unbiased. For some of us, this is a bug: Machines should not be..

02/12/2016

Most entrepreneurs are creatures of habit, whether they realize it or not. The experiences they gain while battling to understand their market, connect with their customers, and make the sale tend to stick with them over time.

Breaking into a new market can be challenging for even the most seasoned entrepreneur. Here's how we navigated the process and found success.

02/12/2016

Much has changed since the height of the 2008 financial crisis: the Dow has recovered and hit record highs. The unemployment rate has dropped, and currently sits below 5%. Banks are now subject to stress tests that assess their ability to withstand “exceptional” macroeconomic shocks.

One thing, however, has remained stubbornly still: the proportion of female fund managers around the globe.

Much has changed since the height of the 2008 financial crisis: the Dow has recovered and hit record highs. The unemployment rate has dropped, and currently sits below 5%. Banks are now subject to…

01/12/2016

The cofounders of Stripe joined the ranks of the world’s youngest billionaires after the online payments company announced a new round of funding last week that valued the company at $9.2 billion.

At 26, John Collison, Stripe’s president, is now the world’s youngest self-made billionaire -- two months younger than Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel, who is also 26.

01/12/2016

Rick Schwartz has produced some great, successful movies, includingThe Departed, Black Swan and Gangs of New York. But with Jerrick Media Holdings (founded with former Wall Street executive Jeremy Frommer), he’s shifting his focus to the online world.

Rick Schwartz has produced some great, successful movies, includingThe Departed, Black Swan and Gangs of New York. But with Jerrick Media Holdings (founded..