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23 Apr 2018

Can GDPR’s “Data Portability” change the game for personal data ownership?

Just like introducing number portability in mobile meant that mobile users (and not mobile operators) could own their mobile number and hence not be captive, so data portability puts the ownership of a data subject’s data firmly in his/her hands, with the ability to move that data to a competitive...

28 Mar 2018

Death of the Channel?

As a senior executive of a systems integration company, I noticed two emerging trends in the software industry structure over the last decade that have led me to question the very future of the traditional channel. The first trend is towards a closer relationship between the Software Vendor and t...

13 Mar 2018

Do I actually need a Transaction Advisor?

We come across this question quite frequently, where companies feel that they possibly have the in-house skills to go it alone, or that they find it difficult to justify the advisory fees – whether it is company sales/purchases, management buy-outs (MBO), management buy-ins (MBI), or selling/b...

18 Feb 2018

Are cryptocurrency payments ready for prime time?

Contributor: Dr. Sakib Khan* (Sakib is a partner within the Corniche Crypto/Blockchain Practice) Stripe recently announced that they would no longer be supporting Bitcoin as a payment method for their e-commerce merchants (and this is remarkable given that they were the first payment platform to a...

18 Feb 2018

Does Quantum Computing Pose an Existential Threat to our Blockchain Future?

Quantum Computing (QC) is going to change the world. It can help us make sense of the huge amount of data we’ve already collected, and solve complex problems that even the most powerful supercomputers cannot – such as medical diagnostics and weather prediction. It is only a matter of time, and i...

10 Jan 2018

The blockchain for entrepreneurs

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We have put together some of the emerging blockchain applications and use-cases to inspire the entrepreneur “within us all”. The early Internet dealt with intangibles. You sent or received emails, corresponded on forums, read and distributed articles. In contrast, the modern blockchain-fuell...

09 Jan 2018

Tap the Family Office

“Tapping” the family for money is an important skill for cash-strapped young people home from school. Perhaps entrepreneurs should become similarly skilled, though in this case by “family” we mean the Family Office. The Family Office has recently emerged as an important new s...

28 Oct 2017

The Bloomberg U.S. Startups Barometer

The Bloomberg U.S. Startups Barometer is a new weekly indicator that tracks the overall health of the business environment for private technology companies based in the U.S. The index incorporates both the money flowing into VC-backed startups, as well as the exits that are making money for investor...

28 Oct 2017

Should you buy into Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)?

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By David Keast
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Investors have poured in excess of $3 billion into over 200 ICOs this year, according to data from Coinschedule.com (with many ICOs still ongoing and hundreds more scheduled). September was among the busiest months, bringing in almost $850 million alone in 37 offerings. There are now in excess of 1,...

18 Sep 2017

Setting up an effective advisory board

A technopreneur can gain huge leverage from an advisory board at minimal cost, but it all depends on the quality of the people. The board can provide independent strategic, fund-raising and specific disciplinary advice (such as in digital marketing or technology) to compliment the technopreneur/mana...