FINANCE Easy to invest. Impossible to exit? Investors are living through the most exciting time in 400 years! Is Entrepreneurship about Invention or Innovation? If you watch any of the Dragons Den type shows on TV you would be forgiven for thinking that the way to become an entrepreneur is to invent a new product. Look through history and it is littered […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
FINANCE Are ICO’s the death of Angels? Killing Angels. Are Initial Coin Offerings (ICO’s) the death of early stage investing? Imagine a startup that aims to build a decentralised cloud storage network, essentially disrupting platforms such as Dropbox and Box. The startup, not having a working product or any traction yet, decides to raise funding. It does this very successfully raising $257 […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
FINANCE Stephen Fisher Stephen Fisher takes a non-traditional view on investment. What’s your story? I am currently Principal and CIO of First Degree Global Asset Management Pte Ltd in Singapore. Prior to that I worked for JP Morgan Asset Management for 18 years where I was Regional Head for Fixed Income Product Asia-Pacific. I completed a PhD in […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
FINANCE Alejtin Berisha Alejtin is revolutionising education using a Finnish inspired education system which is fun, creative, engaging and personalised. What’s your story? I am a serial entrepreneur and the Founder of Kosovo Business Angels Network. Currently back to being an entrepreneur with the founding of Finnish Schools International, an innovative international school network utilising the Finnish education […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
FINANCE Srdja Iveković Srdja Ivekovic is currently setting up an impact venture fund. His advice about investing is from a song, “know when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em.” What’s your story? I have basically been a principal investment ‘analyst’ for most of my career; whether it was as an institutional in Cairo or London or […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
FINANCE Alicia Castillo Holley Alicia Castillo Holley is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor who invests in 8 new companies a year. What’s your story? I’m a serial entrepreneur, and angel investor. I grew up in a small town in Venezuela, and was a scientist (presented my first paper at 15), then head of R&D, and found entrepreneurship through […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
FINANCE Etienne Kouadio Doh Etienne Kouadio Doh is promoting investments and entrepreneurship in the tech sector in the Cote d’Ivoire. What’s your story? My Name is Etienne Kouadio Doh, Chief Operating Officer of VITIB, the 1st technology park in western Africa based at Grand-Bassam, the world heritage city of Cote d’Ivoire. The mission of VITIB is to promote investments […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
FINANCE Alicia Robb Alicia Robb is an angel investor who has brought together women to teach them about investing and taking that first step to invest. What’s your story? I live and work in Boulder, Colorado after living in the Bay Area north of San Francisco for 12 years. I am the founder and CEO of Next Wave […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
FINANCE M Fayaz Taher Fayaz Taher believes you should just start something to get the ball rolling, then you can start learning some important lessons as an entrepreneur. What’s your story? I am from Bangladesh and I live and work here. I studied in the US at Babson College and Clark University. I started a few tech startups in […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
FINANCE Adnan Akdemir Several successful exits has given Adnan credit as an investor. He and his family have been investing in entertainment for over 50 years. What’s your story? I am an angel investor focusing mainly on the entertainment industry, living in Istanbul. I am the third generation in my family, working in the entertainment business. We built […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Are Single People Happier? The Science Of Being Single Key Takeaway: A study published in the Journal of Personality suggests that long-term single people can be secure and thriving, possibly due to their attachment style. The research found that 78% of singles were insecure, with 22% being secure. Secure singles are comfortable with intimacy and closeness in relationships, while anxious singles worry about rejection […] Written by Yuthika Girme April 23, 2024April 23, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Greater Secrets Of Stonehenge Key Takeaway: A project involving archaeologists, astronomers, and photographers from English Heritage, Oxford, Leicester, and Bournemouth universities, as well as the Royal Astronomical Society, aims to study the lunar alignment at Stonehenge. The project aims to identify the layout of certain stones and the major lunar standstill, which occurs when the northernmost and southernmost moonrises […] Written by Fabio Silva April 22, 2024April 22, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Building Blocks Of The Universe Key Takeaway: Peter Higgs, the creator of the Higgs boson, has died at the age of 94. Higgs, a great scientist in particle physics, discovered the Higgs boson in 1964 after reading a paper by American theoretical physicist Philip Anderson. This led to the development of the Standard Model, which explained how fundamental particles and […] Written by Harald Fox April 16, 2024April 16, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Inherent Risks Of A.I. Key Takeaway: Leading scientists and technologists often make terrible predictions about the direction of innovation, leading to misalignments between a company’s economic incentives to profit from its proprietary AI model and society’s interests in how the AI model should be monetised and deployed. Focusing on the economic risks from AI is not just about preventing […] Written by Mariana Mazzucato April 15, 2024April 15, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Psychology Of A Gentleman Key Takeaway: The Gentlemen, a TV series by Guy Ritchie, reimagines the age-old trope of a “gentleman” based on Middle English and French. The term originated from Middle English, referring to the English gentry, a class below nobility but above farmers. The concept of a gentleman is associated with higher competence, warmth, and positive connotations […] Written by Jayden Greenwell-Barnden April 12, 2024April 12, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Discovering Your Money Attachment Style Key Takeaway: The current economic climate is particularly concerning for young people, who are often financially worse off than their parents. To overcome this, it is important to understand one’s financial attachment style, which can be secure, anxious, or avoidant. Attachment theory, influenced by childhood experiences and education, can help shape one’s relationship with money. […] Written by Ylva Baeckstrom April 9, 2024April 9, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Proven 5 Steps To Psychological Wellness Key Takeaway: Wellness culture, which claims to provide happiness and meaning, has been criticized for its superficial focus on superficial aspects like candles and juice cleanses. Psychological research suggests that long-term wellbeing comes from a committed pursuit of both pleasure and meaning. Martin Seligman’s Perma model, which breaks wellbeing into five pillars: positive emotions, engagement, […] Written by Ben Gibson April 8, 2024April 8, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Rethinking Education Key Takeaways: The Industrial model of education that fueled the modern era and its dizzying reach did its job incredibly well. In his writing, Flynn illustrates study after study, spanning nations and decades, in which modern educational gift of abstraction — a transcendent sign of intelligence, as we saw in Raven’s Matrices — has been […] Written by Anthony Fieldman March 2, 2022October 19, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How China Is Transforming Its Economy Through Learning I highly recommend reading the McKinsey Global Institute’s new report, “Reskilling China: Transforming The World’s Largest Workforce Into Lifelong Learners”, which focuses on the country’s biggest employment challenge, re-training its workforce and the adoption of practices such as lifelong learning to address the growing digital transformation of its productive fabric. How to transform the country […] Written by Enrique Dans February 1, 2021February 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Why You’re Not Seeing Success With Influencer Marketing With the new year around the corner, now is a good time to re-evaluate your past marketing strategies and gear up for the year ahead. For some businesses, influencer marketing has simply not seemed to live up to its lofty promises of genuine engagement, credibility, and transparency. Some have claimed that it has been failing […] Written by Michael Tan January 14, 2021January 15, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A New Philosophy of Business I’m about to ask you to take a mental leap. For the next 8 minutes, suspend your notions of what a business is, and I’ll propose a new lens for you to look through. There are a lot of questions asked around what “community” means for business. “Where should community fit in my organization?” and […] Written by Empirics Asia September 5, 2018September 5, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked