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Innovative Start-Ups Founded by Women

Destination Innovation

Louise Hill founded GoHenry in 2012 when she grew tired of funding her children’s online purchases and wanted to teach them financial independence. The system is designed for children aged 6 to 18 and is based on gamification ideas. OLIO has raised over £46m in equity funding and employs over 50 people.

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How President Lula da Silva should help the poor in Brazil this time?

Christensen Institute

It’s important to note that many of the resources pushed are designed to be helpful and are often welcome by communities. As the innovators on the ground design and develop their solutions, they pull in the appropriate resources needed to bring these solutions to the community. Thankfully, Nubank is not alone.

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71 Innovation Methodologies

Open Innovation EU

Human-Centered Design (IDEO). Updated Model of Design Thinking. Design Thinking Process (Stanford). Focus stage: Seed Published: 2012 more…. Design Competitions. Focus stage: Early-stage Published: 2012 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2012 more…. Focus stage: Maturity Published: 2012 more….

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14 LGBTQ+ Innovators, Inventors and Scientists who changed the world

Idea to Value

Some of his core tenets were the usage of interest rates by central banks to balance the needs of economic growth and inflation. She worked at MIT, IBM, Xerox PARC and DARPA and invented dimensionless, scalable design rules that greatly simplified chip design and design tools. However, her journey was not a simple one.

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Disrupting Markets – Why PayPal Is Worth More Than Ebay

Adam Hartung

And collectors as well as designers suddenly discovered all kinds of products they formerly could not find. Paypal is increasingly becoming a threat to traditional banks. Today most folks use a bank for depositing a pay check, and making payments. It is a fast growing market, which will displace many traditional banks.

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50 what-if questions to reimagine the future

Board of Innovation

What if you owned your own bank? Think at Transferwise borderless bank account: it can be opened online everywhere in the world, accepts payments in every currency and charges none or very small fees regardless of the currency or your location. Airbnb and Ryanair originally designed a service with only B2C customers in mind.

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Leaping Into Indie UX

Boxes and Arrows

Podcast Summary In this episode Chris Baum speaks with Donna Spencer , Lynne Polischuik , Justin Davis and Erin Jo Richey at the 2012 IA Summit about their interactive panel discussion Taking the Plunge: Diving Into Indie UX. ” “I got pushed out of the nest with a reasonable size contract.

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