This month, I was at the inaugural FinTech 2010 event in Atlanta, Georgia. Launched recently under the auspices of the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), TAG Fintech is a new society focused on financial technology companies in Georgia. Although few realize it, the Atlanta metropolitan area is home to the world’s largest concentration […]

There’s a lot of uncertainty, worry, and fear about regulation in the payments business. That was one of my takeaways from the 2-day conference on payments innovation MPD held at Harvard on November 4 and 5. People had been so focused on the Durbin devastation sweeping through retail banking that they put the new […]

I was asked to moderate a panel on Innovation in Payments Saturday (November 13, 2010) as part of Harvard Business School’s 16th annual Cyberposium. This year’s theme was Battle of the Platforms (a subject near and dear to our hearts here at MPD). http://www.cyberposium.com/ The conference usually draws about 600 people and this year was […]

MPD Payments Innovation Institute
Cambridge: November 4, 2010
Every new business needs a startup strategy: every new payments business and, more broadly, every new platform business needs its startup strategy to be an ignition strategy. I want to focus today on what sets ignition strategies apart from ordinary startup strategies and why they are so important for […]

It was really amazing to listen and learn from the array of innovators that assembled for the MPD [Payments] Innovation Institute last week. There were many important insights shared about how to find innovation, how get good ideas off the ground and making money, and how to get end users to switch away from […]