CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Azleen Abdul Rahim, Co-Founder of Marketing In Asia Azleen’s Platform Helps Content Creators Gain Exposure Across Asia What’s your story?I am the co-founder of Marketing In Asia, a content-sharing platform. Our mission is to give Asian people and brands a voice, through their content. To date, the platform has more than 200 content creators uploading their articles, infographics, podcasts, slides, and videos, at […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP Women on Top in Tech – Ai Ching Goh, Co-Founder of Piktochart (Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Ai Ching Goh is the Co-Founder and CEO at Piktochart, a web app offering users without intensive graphic design experience to easily create professional-grade infographics […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP STARTUPS Marketing For Retaining Customers We are familiar with the funnel illustration in business graphics as used to articulate parts of the sales or lead generation process. Most of these infographics end with the conversion of the lead into a customer but is that the only happily-ever-after that businesses should aim for? In this series of posts on flipping the […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP The Story of Elon Musk In a hundred years, when most people reading this and the person writing this are long gone, Musk’s cars and rockets will still be circling the Earth and the skies. How can such a person get started against all odds is the question I ask here. And, more importantly, what can we learn from him? […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP How to Avoid Online Shopping Fraud? Whether it is the latest tech gadget, new clothes, your next holiday trip, or car insurance – there are few things that you cannot buy online. But as great the pleasure of having everything delivered to your door step may be, the hard is the awakening once you realize you’ve become a victim of online […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
STARTUPS 6 signs the startup is bad Starting a new company is fun but a company that’s not growing is dying. This may be the starting point but can also be the point where most companies fail. Here are six signs that the passion and energy that has brought you this far might not be enough to be successful in the market Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
STARTUPS The Reasons People Quit Their Job There are many reasons why people quit their jobs and the pattern behind the reasons tell us something more about how we should plan out our careers. Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
STARTUPS 200 great ways to make money online Most ‘earn cash from home’ ads are cons. Yet if you’ve a computer or smartphone, there’s a host of small ways to boost your coffers. This guide lists legitimate ways to make money online. Find out more below! Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP 10 Facts about Alibaba Group you didn’t know Jack Ma or Ma Yun (born October 15, 1964) is a Chinese entrepreneur. He is Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group, a family of highly successful Internet-based businesses. Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Did Ancient Scientists & Philosophers Believe In Aliens? Key Takeaway: In 17th-century Europe, there was a debate about the existence of life on other planets due to the transition from a Ptolemaic view to a Copernican view. This led to the idea that if we were more like other planets and moons close to us that revolved around the Sun, they were more […] Written by Philip Almond April 17, 2024April 17, 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 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
When Will Quantum Computers Actually Become Practical? Key Takeaway: Quantum computing, which uses entanglement to represent information, has the potential to revolutionize everyday life. However, the development of quantum computers has been slow due to the need to demonstrate an advantage over classical computers. Only a few notable quantum algorithms have been developed, such as the BB84 protocol and Shor’s algorithm, which […] Written by Adam Lowe April 4, 2024April 4, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Predicting China’s Economy In 2024 Key Takeaway: China’s leaders have declared a GDP growth target of 5% in 2024, despite facing economic problems and a property crisis. The country’s rapid economic growth has been attributed to market incentives, cheap labor, infrastructure investment, exports, and foreign direct investment. However, none of these drivers are working effectively. The government’s determination to deflate […] Written by Hong Bo April 3, 2024April 3, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Future Of Human Computing Key Takeaway: Neuralink, founded by Elon Musk, aims to implant a brain-computer interface (BCI) in people’s brains, allowing them to control computers or phones by thought alone. This technology holds the promise of alleviating human suffering and allowing people with disabilities to regain lost capacities. However, the long-term aspirations of Neuralink include the ability to […] Written by Allan McCay April 2, 2024April 2, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Real Mystery Of Sand Dunes Key Takeaway: Sand dunes, primarily formed of quartz and feldspar grains, can also be formed from ash, snow, and gypsum. They can record a history of climate changes and can be enormous, with the largest being as tall as skyscrapers. Only a fifth of deserts are covered by sand dunes, and only about a fifth […] Written by David Thomas April 1, 2024April 1, 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