by Joanne Jacobs | Jun 20, 2018 | Data Science, Digital Disruption, FinTech, Hackathons, Innovation, Social Impact, Social Innovation
For the last six months or so, Disruptor’s Handbook have been sponsoring and supporting a series of social impact hackathons hosted by youth entrepreneurship organisation, Vibewire. Over this time, the participants and challenges have transformed. Where once the...
by Joanne Jacobs | Mar 27, 2017 | FinTech, Innovation, Startups
Up until recently, I was totally convinced that the tech start-up world was closed off to the entrepreneurial elite and the tech-savvy. Having familiarised myself with the Hollywood accounts of the evolutions of Facebook and Apple, it seemed reasonable to believe...
by Joanne Jacobs | Nov 6, 2016 | FinTech, Startups, Trends
From the outside, financial services can appear to be a behemoth – enormously slow to change direction and cumbersome when it tries to do so. But over the last decade financial services firms have come under fire from fast moving, disruptive players – the “FinTechs”...
by Joanne Jacobs | Apr 5, 2016 | FinTech, Future of Work, Innovation, Startups
The StartupMuster Report for 2015 revealed that Australian startups are thinly spread across more than 20 industries, with marketing representing the largest slice at a mere 12.9%. Fintech ranked 8th at 10.7% of startups. What we are dealing with across the startup...
