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What I'm curious about is how a trend back towards hard (real) money will impact payments businesses.
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"Ten years ago, everyone at my school wanted to be a dot com entrepreneur.  That didn’t work out so well and most students later went back to being investment bankers or management consultants."

Today from what I can see, the focus is on location based couponing and Groupon clones.
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/jT2GCe02lv0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2011/04/coaching-startups-in-art-of-pitch.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-3356231549377254605</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-15T01:28:05.792+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">innovation</category><title>"Credit card of the future" co-innovation project</title><atom:summary>eYeka is a new form of R&amp;D catalyzer that relies on a very large network of creative people competing to come up with great new concepts for brands. Briefs are prepared by eYeka and submitted to a global community of 130,000 creative individuals in 76 countries. The process is appealing to me. It cuts through the internal barriers that companies have when they try to think about innovation.The </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/2nQKZvmlVkA/credit-card-of-future-co-innovation.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tZZazWVVPN4/TX6v6ZsdyiI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/jdflAki2ASo/s72-c/Eyeka%2BCampaign%2B1.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/2nQKZvmlVkA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2011/03/credit-card-of-future-co-innovation.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-1291956619643022449</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-03-09T11:58:02.568+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Taggo</category><title>Digital Life magazine uses Taggo to give special deals to fans</title><atom:summary>It's the final countdown to the IT Show in Singapore, where Digital Life magazine is offering exclusive deals for fans. All you need to do is link your EZ-Link card with the Digital Life fan page on Facebook.Check out the deals here.If you're feeling guilty about buying that new Dell laptop ($50 discount for fans) then all you have to do is say that it's part of doing research on this cool new </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/WAyhdKHfJ-M/digital-life-magazine-uses-taggo-to.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C3ZF3Lldd8U/TXddL2dkplI/AAAAAAAAAU4/HrfHWdBdlY0/s72-c/183347_10150157874717254_404765837253_8735470_7754197_n.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/WAyhdKHfJ-M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2011/03/digital-life-magazine-uses-taggo-to.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-8321753011153116658</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-02-22T10:03:59.134+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Taggo</category><title>Taggo wins 2011 Asia Pacific Frost &amp; Sullivan Enabling Technology Award</title><atom:summary>Toot toot ... yes, blowing my horn again :)Singapore, 22 February 2011. Taggo, the world’s only provider of online fan recognition solutions in the physical world, today announced it was conferred the 2011 Asia Pacific Frost &amp; Sullivan Enabling Technology Award. The Award is presented annually to a company that has demonstrated excellence in developing a technology that can benefit or </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/83PJqFq41Xo/taggo-wins-2011-asia-pacific-frost.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=83PJqFq41Xo:ykDiTTFuK6Y:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=83PJqFq41Xo:ykDiTTFuK6Y:UT3xtbGYFzA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=83PJqFq41Xo:ykDiTTFuK6Y:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=83PJqFq41Xo:ykDiTTFuK6Y:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/83PJqFq41Xo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2011/02/taggo-wins-2011-asia-pacific-frost.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-5424376992703043574</guid><pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 04:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-01-29T06:25:01.910+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">innovation</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mobile payment</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">NFC</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">contactless</category><title>Unexpected use of tap and go with mobile phones - think out of the box</title><atom:summary>Soon we will get tap and go technology built into iPhones and iPads. The common view is that this will replace credit cards. We might even be able to leave our wallets at home. I think people are missing lots of other features that may appear long before mobile payments, and that Apple could announce to everyone's surprise.Two excellent articles tear apart the idea of tap and go mobile payments. </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/UIFFrdkJ30M/unexpected-use-of-tap-and-go-with.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><thr:total>3</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/UIFFrdkJ30M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2011/01/unexpected-use-of-tap-and-go-with.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-7365573837783295254</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 02:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-20T06:37:59.186+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Taggo</category><title>BBC News interviews Taggo</title><atom:summary /><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/6oRTf1vg6BI/bbc-news-interviews-taggo.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NhdvnH3sK90/TOcx0uaLpRI/AAAAAAAAAUM/fVKjrXzJRGE/s72-c/BBC.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=6oRTf1vg6BI:r7paGfOo8-M:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=6oRTf1vg6BI:r7paGfOo8-M:UT3xtbGYFzA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=6oRTf1vg6BI:r7paGfOo8-M:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=6oRTf1vg6BI:r7paGfOo8-M:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/6oRTf1vg6BI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2010/11/bbc-news-interviews-taggo.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-8593030997079781796</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-11T01:55:48.727+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">case studies</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">acquiring</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">social media</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Taggo</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">PIVAS</category><title>Fans are more valuable than normal credit card customers</title><atom:summary>Banks across Asia compete with each other to convince retailers to give special deals to the bank's cardholders. Lack of differentiation leads to situations like this, where four different banks managed to get the same 10% discount for their cardholders.Taggo has found a way to get bigger benefits and discounts for a bank's cardholders, with very little cost or effort.The following picture was </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/AawdKx75tG4/fans-are-more-valuable-than-normal.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NhdvnH3sK90/TNs2irvREYI/AAAAAAAAAT0/_cAoYYusuQM/s72-c/CreditCardOffers.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/AawdKx75tG4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2010/11/fans-are-more-valuable-than-normal.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-1516113287511979080</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 23:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-11T00:32:09.008+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">case studies</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Taggo</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">contactless</category><title>Viral marketing success story at a restaurant in Singapore</title><atom:summary>A couple weeks ago, the Indonesian Panggang restaurant at NUS began using Taggo to offer a 10% discount to fans when they use their contactless transit card. Their goal was to attract new customers and friends of customers. Within one week, the number of fans doubled, from 276 to 550. Within two weeks, the number grew to 639 fans, an increase of 139% in a very short time. Growth is still </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/pI5Yv18FMyg/viral-marketing-success-story-at.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NhdvnH3sK90/TNsmG_OvWAI/AAAAAAAAATk/h3b2_ViUq1E/s72-c/Indonesian_Panggang.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/pI5Yv18FMyg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2010/11/viral-marketing-success-story-at.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-3016630767737654204</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 23:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-10-07T01:55:30.876+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cash</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">innovation</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mobile payment</category><title>Fake money becomes real - the future of money?</title><atom:summary>Two separate commentaries popped up on my screen this morning, which intuitively seem related in ways that are not yet clear to me.The first is an article titled How Fake Money Saved Brazil, describing how four drinking buddy economists (insert your favorite derogatory comment about economists here) managed to stop Brazil's rampant inflation in the early 1990's. The article focuses on the </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/NGzzxBFaxSU/fake-money-becomes-real-future-of-money.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/NGzzxBFaxSU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2010/10/fake-money-becomes-real-future-of-money.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-3415760601960373126</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-09-30T00:28:53.180+02:00</atom:updated><title>Taggo is launched!</title><atom:summary>Check out the press release here.</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/anuGxcptl80/taggo-is-launched.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/anuGxcptl80" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2010/09/taggo-is-launched.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-5728871502451348113</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 23:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-09-29T01:58:55.211+02:00</atom:updated><title>Analyst sees massive pain coming for the states, recommends Visa and MasterCard</title><atom:summary>Analyst Meredith Whitney says state budgets could be the next systemic financial risk. The only companies she recommends investing in are Visa and MasterCard and Taggo (OK, just joking).</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/HAz_C4qzKm8/analyst-sees-massive-pain-coming-for.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/HAz_C4qzKm8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2010/09/analyst-sees-massive-pain-coming-for.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-1982117864282653094</guid><pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 02:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-09-18T04:43:07.636+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">social media</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Taggo</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">innovation</category><title>BBC interview on entrepreneurship and Taggo</title><atom:summary>BBC was in Singapore this week and did an interview with me on entrepreneurship and the launch of Taggo fan recognition. We did the interview at Paulaner Brauhaus, a German brewery and restaurant that will be launching Taggo October 1st.To get a feel for Taggo, go to Paulaner's Facebook page, become a fan of Paulaner, and click on the taggo me tab to register your Singapore transit card. Taggo </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/HUOqDeuQEcM/bbc-interview-on-entrepreneurship-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NhdvnH3sK90/TJQk75lSnHI/AAAAAAAAATU/r2J7cm5s_gU/s72-c/60093_471789127473_627237473_6590173_848410_n.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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