Voice of FinTech®

We talk to Chiara Spina, Ph.D., Bocconi, and from September, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise at INSEAD in Singapore. Is there a way to teach entrepreneurship? Are entrepreneurs born or made? How can you make strategic decisions in your early-stage venture intelligently to maximize your chances of survival, and even better, success?

Show Notes

Chiara Spina, a Ph.D. graduate from Bocconi, is joining INSEAD in Singapore in September as Assistant Professor of  Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise.

We talk about:
  • How Chiara became interested in becoming an academic in entrepreneurship
  • Chiara's goals at INSEAD in her first year as a professor
  • Can you teach entrepreneurship? If yes, how? In terms of method, through the case study method or the traditional way?
  • Is there anything scientific about decision making in the early-stage ventures? How can you improve your odds of survival and success? 
  • How can you experiment in a highly regulated industry like Financial Services? 
  • Strengths and perhaps weaknesses of the start-ups in Italy vs. the rest of the world 
  • Chiara's research on emerging phenomena in entrepreneurship like crowdfunding, accelerators, and hackathons
  • Chiara's involvement with Hackathon Research Center
My Trip to the Start-Up World, aka Voice of FinTech Season 1 book is out! This book is a collection of Voice of FinTech podcast highlights, recaps and additional resources, explained and woven together by Rudolf Falat. You can get now on Amazon near you as a paperback or an e-book (for Kindle), for example in Switzerland/Germany, the UK, or the United States and elsewhere on Amazon. See more also here.

What is Voice of FinTech®?

Aiming to inspire entrepreneurs around the world to launch their new ventures. Connect FinTech enthusiasts with start-ups, incubators, accelerators, investors and incumbents.