Handbook

This course is intended to expose students to the challenges associated with creating and managing a startup in the FinTech industry. It covers the common requirements for any startup firm, such as the design of a business plan, fund raising, mentoring, among others. More importantly, this course highlights (i) the governance issues faced by startups in the heavily-regulated FinTech space, (ii) the competitive mass that is needed to enter into spaces already dominated by large organisations, (iii) the design of cost-effective marketing strategies to capture early adopters, when there is typically a narrow window to scale up, (iv) the cybersecurity and data privacy issues, which are specially crucial for FinTech firms, and (v) other issues, such as recruiting strategies, and tactics to create sustainable cash-flow profiles.