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
Christantio Giovanni – Co-Founder of Oneshot This article was originally published here: Christantio Giovanni – Co-Founder of Oneshot Aware that the complexities of video making were off putting for people who wanted to make videos to promote their businesses, Christantio Giovanni came up with a simple solution. What’s your story? I came to Singapore from Indonesia to complete a Diploma in […] Written by Callum Laing July 26, 2021July 26, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Does The Stock Market Extract Wealth? Many of us see the stock market as an investment engine for building companies and generating wealth, but the truth is that the stock market works more like an extraction engine. It depletes corporations while contributing to the concentration of wealth. The Stock Market is an Aftermarket Our distorted view of the stock market starts when we believe that buying shares in a publicly-traded company actually invests […] Written by Gideon Rosenblatt July 23, 2021July 23, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Space Tourism: Can It Be More Than ‘Space’ Joyrides For Millionaires? Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson and his team successfully flew to the “edge of space” on the Unity 22 mission aboard a Virgin Galactic plane on July 12. The event was hailed as the start of space tourism, narrowly beating the planned launch on 20 July by fellow billionaire business magnate Jeff Bezos and his firm Blue Origin. But does the 85km (53 miles), the altitude […] Written by The Conversation July 20, 2021July 20, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The End Of Suffering Most of us would describe ourselves as having a body, a mind and a soul (or spirit), as though these are not the same thing. The soul in particular is understood as being separate, not only from the mind and its thoughts, but from the realm of the physical world, and even physics itself. We […] Written by Anthony Fieldman July 19, 2021July 19, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Racism In Sport: The Truth In the penalty shoot-out that saw Italy defeat England in the UEFA Euro 2020 final, the skill of the goalkeepers was overshadowed by the perceived failure of the English players who missed their shots. Three young players – Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka – were subjected to torrents of anti-black racist abuse. One of […] Written by The Conversation July 16, 2021July 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
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
