Qapital : innovating personal savings management through gamification /
Katherine Salisbury and George Friedman lead New York-based Qapital Invest LLC (Qapital), which offers a personal finance mobile application for Apple's iOS and Google's Android-based smartphone users. The Qapital app leverages a gamification approach developed by a behavioral science prof...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications: SAGE Business Cases Originals,
2023.
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| Series: | SAGE business cases.
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| Summary: | Katherine Salisbury and George Friedman lead New York-based Qapital Invest LLC (Qapital), which offers a personal finance mobile application for Apple's iOS and Google's Android-based smartphone users. The Qapital app leverages a gamification approach developed by a behavioral science professor from Duke University and helps users develop positive financial behavior. The app motivates users to save money by controlling their spending behavior. Qapital encourages users to set savings goals and uses gamification rules to transfer money from a checking account to a savings account when a rule established in the app is met. By 2021, Qapital received over 78,000 five-star ratings in Apple's App Store and Google Play and was named the "Most Innovative App" by Google and Apple. But now, Salisbury and Friedman want to further expand the services offered. What are the implications for academia-startup collaboration for understanding the financial behavior of individuals? And how can the financial behavior of Qapital's users be further improved? |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9781529619768 1529619769 |