Every so often, there is a change is government regulations that makes you stop and think, “This will change everything!” The EU’s revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) is proving to be one of those times. What exactly is PSD2? It requires Europe’s banks to offer third-party providers greater access to customer data and payment infrastructure and gave banks until 2018 to comply with its mandates. The European Parliament hopes that PSD2 to make it easier, faster, and less

Every so often, there is a change is government regulations that makes you stop and think, “This will change everything!” The EU’s revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) is proving to be one of those times. What exactly is PSD2? It requires Europe’s banks to offer third-party providers greater access to customer data and payment infrastructure and gave banks until 2018 to comply with its mandates. The European Parliament hopes that PSD2 to make it easier, faster, and less

There is no question, autonomous vehicles are one of the hot emerging technologies. Tesla helped push the technology out of the lab and onto the road with their Auto-Pilot feature. Now, virtually every car maker is experimenting with self-driving cars and trucks. Ride sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft are running have put self-driving cars on the road. As often happens, the technology has gotten out ahead of government regulations. In March 2018, a GM Cruise self-dr

There is no question, autonomous vehicles are one of the hot emerging technologies. Tesla helped push the technology out of the lab and onto the road with their Auto-Pilot feature. Now, virtually every car maker is experimenting with self-driving cars and trucks. Ride sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft are running have put self-driving cars on the road. As often happens, the technology has gotten out ahead of government regulations. In March 2018, a GM Cruise self-dr

Earlier this year in our blog post, “What makes someone the right founder?” In that post we highlighted five (5) character traits that we believe are present in great founders. They were: Coachability; Adaptability; Innovation and creativity; Ambition balanced by humility; and Authentic leadership. After writing the post, we were asked, “but how do you measure any of those characteristics?” The answer is that measuring these things is hard. But a research team at the UC B

Earlier this year in our blog post, “What makes someone the right founder?” In that post we highlighted five (5) character traits that we believe are present in great founders. They were: Coachability; Adaptability; Innovation and creativity; Ambition balanced by humility; and Authentic leadership. After writing the post, we were asked, “but how do you measure any of those characteristics?” The answer is that measuring these things is hard. But a research team at the UC B