Comments on: FinovateStartup – 1

By: Conclusiones Finovate 2009

Conclusiones Finovate 2009 — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:01:37 +0000

[...] The Bankwatch: Colin Henderson writes about the demos from Lending Club, Tempo Payments and Wesabe (link) [...]

By: bankwatch

bankwatch — Sat, 02 May 2009 17:21:17 +0000

@Jim .. it was refreshing to watch. They come fast and furious, and probably better suited to Twitter than live-blogging! What was refreshing to me was the solid attempts to challenge existing financial services. There is bound to be some things pop up the ‘next big things’ out of that lot. Good job.

By: Jim Bruene

Jim Bruene — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:55:04 +0000

Thanks for the FinovateStartup coverage Colin. Lot’s of interesting developments, I twittered like crazy but need to distill into blog post.

On a macro level, one thing that I thought was very positive about the state of financial innovation was the participation rate. We had 58 fintech startups sign up, with some having committed as far back as December. Yet, we only had two drop out for the April 28 event. One of those was in stealth mode and needed more time and the other had a scheduling conflict as they put finishing touches on a major biz opportunity.

Bottom line: Not a single dropout due to the faltering economy.