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Counting Sheep: Who’s Helping Us Optimize our Sleep?
We spend one-third of our life sleeping. Yet, seldom do we treat our sleep with the respect it deserves. Even in medical school, I can only recall one lecture about sleep, despite concrete evidence that poor sleep leads to morbidity and mortality. Sleep is an attractive market for digital health companies given its important health…
Read MoreA PFM App by Any Other Name
Grab your fedora and bullwhip; we’re going to be starting with some fintech archeology today. Journey back with me to the halcyon days of 2008, when the traditional banking system was imploding, consumers were pissed, and web startups focused on personal finance were just beginning to flourish. Here’s the New York Times: When the financial…
Read MoreComplexity and contradiction
Exploring the downsides of recent climate legislation in the U.S.
Read More5 Insights on Audience-Building, Twitter Workflows and Social KPIs From Northbeam’s Matthew Kobach
I’m so excited to share my conversation with Matthew Kobach! He’s the CMO of Northbeam, a third-party attribution tool for e-comm brands. Before this, he worked at Fast and the New York Stock Exchange. One thing that I notice everywhere he goes: a Twitter strategy that makes WAVES. (Remember when everyoneeee was tweeting pics of…
Read More$100M for Latino-Led Tech
“It fundamentally comes down to being able to allow our community to build wealth, and what a better way to do that than driving wealth into a founder that can employ a diverse cohort” Laura Moreno Lucas As former Managing Director of the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, Laura Moreno Lucas has led the high-profile IPOs of Lyft, Beyond Meat, The RealReal, and Airbnb. …
Read MoreBuild vs Buy? How To Pick The Right Fintech Vendor
We have an exciting FTT Expert post today: picking the right vendor for your fintech infrastructure needs is becoming an increasingly complicated question. With so many different areas to cover and so many companies in the space, the choice is getting harder; not just that, but some companies are debating whether to build these services…
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