BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK ENTREPRENEURSHIP STARTUPS STRATEGY TECHNOLOGY The Business Model for Content Startups A business model helps to clarify a company’s main purpose, such as who they’re serving, how they help, and how the company can sustain its operations. A business model is distinctly different from an organization’s strategy, which typically addresses product, pricing, and marketing decisions. A formal business plan, however, may include some of these elements […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Fred Mouawad, Founder of Taskworld Fred Mouawad is the founder of Taskworld. A task management application that improves the performance of teams. Fred is also a global citizen, serial and portfolio entrepreneur, and founder of Synergia One Group of Companies. Synergia One is the entity that groups all the companies Fred founded which includes the family jewelry business, Mouawad, of […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP The two things in this world Jack Sim, founder of WTO and BoP Hub, would like to change The Asian Entrepreneur speaks to Jack Sim, the founder of World Toilet Organisation and BoP Hub on the two things in this world he would like to change. Jack started the Restroom Association of Singapore in 1998, WTO in 2001 and the BOP HUB in 2011. If you could pick two things to change in […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP Is education or the support of your government more important in the entrepreneurial process? Entrepreneurs plays an important role in the economic development of a country or region and it is quite common to find academic literature validating entrepreneurship. It facilitates the development of an area then having a broader effect as the enterprise matures. For a new enterprise to form and have a chance of success, the following four […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Secret Trouble Of Disney The family-friendly, controversy-averse Walt Disney Co. has walked into the buzz saw of the American culture wars, version 2022. In April, officials at Disney objected to a Florida law prohibiting instruction in sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded by signing a bill revoking Disney’s self-governing status, a unique arrangement […] Written by Thomas Doherty May 13, 2022May 13, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
TJ Neathery – Founder & CEO Best and Niche Marketing This article was originally published here: TJ Neathery – Founder & CEO Best and Niche Marketing Being a storyteller who constantly asks why has led TJ Neathery into a career in marketing. What’s your story? I’ve always been fascinated with connecting people through storytelling. My academic journey led me through film studies toward an MFA […] Written by Callum Laing May 13, 2022May 13, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
5 Ways Big Data Is Changing The World The primitive era had land — rich wilderness upon which the first civilizations were built. The industrial era had giant steel machines capable of carrying humans across the globe to expand our influence. And what about this age? What will we use to change the world? The answer, of course, is data. Information made of […] Written by Ella Alderson May 12, 2022May 12, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Definition Of Living Who am I? It seems like such a simple question. Most of us wouldn’t hesitate. We would answer by referencing our cardinal points of orientation—things most of us will tell you “define a life”. We give them labels to point toward our lineage, contexts and shared rituals. The most powerful of these identity-givers are our […] Written by Anthony Fieldman May 10, 2022May 10, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Uncovering One Of A.I.’s Deepest Mysteries The black box problem is a profound mystery surrounding AI. It says that we may understand the input, we may understand the output, but the AI’s decision-making process which bridges these two is a black box we can’t seem to peer inside. When given the task of helping diagnose patients, for example, why might an […] Written by Ella Alderson May 9, 2022May 9, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Rethinking Education The Industrial model of education that fueled the modern era and its dizzying reach did its job incredibly well. Its prime accomplishment was the expansion of our ability to abstract the world. Until then, pragmatism reigned, limiting most people’s thoughts and interactions primarily because we lacked the tools to extrapolate information, to wield it for things that lay beyond obvious […] Written by Anthony Fieldman March 2, 2022March 2, 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
