How To Build A Fintech Startup With Sramana Mitra

Learn from the Trenches How to Build a Financial Technology Startup

What you'll learn

Through in-depth interviews with successful founders of fintech startups, learn how they built their businesses.

How to identify promising startup ideas.

What the innovative trends and business models are in the identity management space to ignite your ideation.

When and how to bring on a team.

When to start raising funds for a startup.

How to scale your business.

What the exit options are.

Requirements

The only requirement for this course is an open mind and a willingness to learn.

Description

The 1Mby1M Methodology is based on case studies. In each course, Sramana Mitra shares the tribal knowledge of tech entrepreneurs by giving students the rare seat at the table with the entrepreneurs, investors and thought leaders who provide the most instructive perspectives on how to build a thriving business. Through these conversations, students gain access to case studies exploring the alleys of entrepreneurship. Sramana’s synthesis of key learnings and incisive analysis add great depth to each discussion.The Finance and Banking system of the world - from credit to payments, and everything in between - is going through a tremendous transformation. Digital platforms, processes and apps are becoming ubiquitous. Startups at the heart of this transformation are reaping handsome benefits.This course focuses on the domain-specific case studies of FinTech startups. For the broader 1Mby1M methodology of building startups, you would need to go through multiple other courses in the portfolio.In this particular course, we will focus on the problems and opportunities within the FinTech domain. You can always use these case studies for concept arbitrage in different regions of the world. You can also improve on these ideas by infusing new technologies or nuances. Ultimately, your domain knowledge and innovation instincts would drive where within the broader FinTech space you want to position your venture. The course would also serve well to catalyze ideation.In these case studies, you would find catalysts to your own thinking.

Overview

Section 1: How to Build a FinTech Startup

Lecture 1 Introduction to How to Build a FinTech Startup

Lecture 2 How to Build a FinTech Startup

Section 2: Core Banking Solution FinTech Startups

Lecture 3 How to Build Core Banking Solution FinTech Startups

Lecture 4 Synapse CEO Sankaet Pathak on Building FinTech Infrastructure Products

Lecture 5 Pismo CEO Ricardo Josua on Building a Global Hardcore FinTech Company

Lecture 6 Saphyre Twin Co-founders Stephen Roche and Gabino Roche Build a FinTech Venture

Lecture 7 More Core Banking Solution FinTech Startup Case Studies

Section 3: Lending FinTech Startups

Lecture 8 Introduction to Lending FinTech Startups

Lecture 9 DealMaker CEO Rebecca Kacaba on Trends in Equity Crowdfunding

Lecture 10 OppFi CEO Todd Schwartz on Building a Public FinTech Business

Lecture 11 BankFacil CEO Sergio Furio on Building a FinTech from Brazil

Lecture 12 Earnin CEO Ram Palaniappan on Loans for Those Living Paycheck to Paycheck

Lecture 13 NorthOne CEO Eytan Bensoussan on Securing Seed Funding for a FinTech

Lecture 14 More Lending FinTech Startup Case Studies

Section 4: Payment FinTech Startups

Lecture 15 Introduction to Payment FinTech Startups

Lecture 16 Quavo Co-Founder David Chmielewski Bootstraps by Piggybacking with Services

Lecture 17 SurgePays CEO Brian Cox on Unleashing Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Lecture 18 More Payment FinTech Startup Case Studies

Section 5: Collections & Receivables FinTech Startups

Lecture 19 Introduction to Collections & Receivables FinTech Startups

Lecture 20 C&R CEO Ed Wallen on Combining Humanity and AI

Lecture 21 More Collections & Receivables FinTech Startup Case Studies

Section 6: Tax and Savings FinTech Startups

Lecture 22 How to Build Tax and Savings FinTech Startups

Section 7: Other Financial Services Startups

Lecture 23 Introduction to Other Financial Services Startups

Section 8: Investor Perspectives on FinTech Startups

Lecture 24 Investor Perspectives on FinTech Startups

Lecture 25 Doug Atkin, Communitas Capital Partners, on the Nuances of the FinTech Sector

Lecture 26 Dan Roselli, CFV Ventures, on InsureTech and FinTech

Lecture 27 Congruent Ventures' Joshua Posamentier on Sustainability-oriented Tech Ventures

Section 9: Additional Content

Lecture 28 Practice Exercise 1

Lecture 29 Practice Exercise 2

Lecture 30 Bonus Lecture

Those with knowledge of or interest in the financial tech industry who want to turn this into a multi-million dollar revenue businesses by becoming startup founders rather than remain employees or contractors.,Aspiring founders who want to increase their chances of being accepted into top startup accelerators such as Y Combinator, Techstars, and 500 Startups.,Any entrepreneur who wants to learn from successful entrepreneurs who have been in your shoes.,Professors teaching technology entrepreneurship courses anywhere in the world.