Business & Economics Editor's Pick Entrepreneurship Philosophy Strategy Lessons from Chinese Companies and Chinese Consumers September 14, 2018September 14, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked This is a story documenting the observations and learnings from the Fynd team’s week in Shanghai & Beijing in July 2018 The points written here are purely our opinions and observations based on our conversations and experiences from our one week in Beijing and Shanghai. They no way reflect the company’s opinion. It is a […]
Business & Economics Editor's Pick Entrepreneurship Startups Technology The Opportunity for Indian Startups July 2, 2018July 2, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked I was at a conference the other day, speaking on a panel with VCs and angels, when we were asked a question: With the softening of valuations and the famous Flipkart markdown, is there still a large internet opportunity in India? My friend and co-panelist from a large VC fund jumped up and trotted out […]
Editor's Pick Sunil Chaula, Founder of Wiwigo August 23, 2015August 23, 2015 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Sunil Chala completed BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi in year 1997. This was followed by 17 years of international experience in product creation, technology and team management. Sunil subsequently spent 10 years in United Kingdom working for companies like Philips Semiconductors and ST-Ericsson Mobile Platforms. Ultimately he decided to embrace his true calling, […]
Entrepreneurship Common problems faced by Indian startups March 24, 2014March 24, 2014 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked According to a recent study done by the Kauffman Foundation, 33.2 percent of the cofounders of tech firms founded by immigrants in the US are Indians (since 2006). Despite such strong figures, when it comes to building a startup in India, most Indians are reluctant. The reason is that the road to building a startup […]
The Politics Of Intellectual Property Introduction: This Article argues that we need a politics, or perhaps a political economy, of intellectual property. Using the controversy over copyright on the Net as a case-study and the history of the environmental movement as a comparison, it offers a couple of modest proposals about what such a politics might look like — what theoretical […] Written by James Boyle March 31, 2021March 31, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Football Finance And Pandemic In March 2020, the last of the European football leagues decided to stop operations indefinitely after a series of players tested positive for COVID-19. The last top-flight match played in front of a full crowd was the UEFA Champions League tie between Atlético Madrid and Liverpool, played at Anfield, Liverpool, on the 11 March 2020. […] Written by Research Blog University of Edinburgh March 31, 2021March 31, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Conservation In The Time Of Pandemic As I write, we don’t yet know the full socioeconomic impact of the devastating COVID-19 pandemic on people and places around the world. But we know from conversations we’ve had with colleagues and partners globally that cultural heritage places and the many people who rely on them for their livelihoods have been, and continue to […] Written by Getty's Blog March 22, 2021March 22, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Platforms Are The Future Of Intelligence As we organize human work and learning at fantastic scales, let’s strive for something inspiring. Through our relationship with machines, humans are building a new, synthetic intelligence. Organizations are the home for this part-human, part-machine intelligence. The topic to which we now turn is the role organizations play in coordinating the immense scale of work and […] Written by Gideon Rosenblatt March 19, 2021March 19, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How Progress Made Us Weak Until the majority of humans fell to the transformative impacts of the Machine Age some hundred or so years ago, when power generation, electricity, the automobile, factories, and telecommunications all conspired to dramatically alter how we lived and interacted, a common set of governing principles underpinned life on Earth for more than ten thousand years. […] Written by Anthony Fieldman March 16, 2021March 16, 2021 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
