We talk with Pete Donat, Head of First Data Ventures, about market challenges unique to being a payments startup, leading indicators for startup success, and the areas that he sees as “hot.”
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Andrew Barnes
Andrew Barnes, Managing Director, Emerging Payments
Barnes is a self-confessed payments "geek" and recognized entrepreneur-intrapreneur working in Silicon Valley. He leverages his business development track record and network in tech, startups, retail, and FI's to profile opportunities and solve challenging revenue problems in payments and mobile commerce. Barnes has held executive positions internationally with Sprint, Global One, and 2Roam Mobile. He founded the National NNN Investment Group and is an Advisor to the Electronic Transactions Association (ETA). Barnes has an MBA from WASEDA in Tokyo 早稲田大学大学院 and a B.A. from Penn State. He can be reached at @AndrewinSV and Linkedin.
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Craig Thomson, VP of Strategy and Channel Development at Digital River, talks payment provider saturation, entrepreneurship, and partnering to stay fresh.
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Jumio CEO, Daniel Mattes, talks payment ID verification, cryptocurrency evolution and FX, and the certain death of transacting anything anonymously.
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Bill Clerico, CEO and Co-founder of WePay, talks crowdfunding, beating the likes of Stripe, Balanced and PayPal, and lessons he’s learning as a payments startup.
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Paydiant Co-founder Chris Gardner, talks about beating the big guys, building retailer’s brands, along with hands-on success in the convenience store and retail petroleum vertical.
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Vanessa Colella, Managing Director, Head of Global Investing for Citi Ventures discusses the secret sauce of startup success, how she leads a team of sherpas, and Citi’s investment in a hot Valley startup, Jumio.
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Lisa Stanton, President of the Americas at Monitise talks about the differences in U.S. and Asia markets, developing new domestic commerce networks, and building out partnerships with huge financial players.
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Eric Barbier, CEO of TransferTo, talks about use cases worldwide, the future of global payments, and why venture capitalists get excited about this space.
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Andrew sat down with Ben Kaplan, president and CEO at CashStar, to discuss branded currencies for retailers, the business models they are disrupting, and the market inefficiencies on which they are growing their business.
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Chris Larsen, CEO and Co-founder of Ripple, discusses the business models they are disrupting, the soon to be upside down world of clearing and settlements, and the distance they put between themselves and cryptocurrency discussions.
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FIS’ SVP of Payment Products, Bob Legters, discusses working with fintech startups, how he makes build, buy or partner decisions, and the new revenue share models they are bringing to the market.
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Boom Financial is empowering the unbanked with mobile bank accounts and money remittance right on their smartphones.
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Andrew sat down with Renaud Laplanche, CEO & Founder of Lending Club to talk about the company’s tremendous growth, this thoughts on the payments ecosystem, and plans for 2014.
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Andrew sat down with Alex Rampell, CEO & Co-founder of TrialPay to talk about the evolving intersection of advertising and payments, the emergence of mobile, and his advice to other entrepreneurs on distribution strategies.
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Andrew sat down with Greg Goldfarb, the CEO & Co-founder of Flint Mobile to talk about mobile POS, the financial and merchant ecosystems being built around Flint, and the role of payments.
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