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
The Significance Of The Queen’s Funeral Great royal events in the United Kingdom are often a mix of old and new, and the commemoration and funeral of Queen Elizabeth II will be no exception. While there will be several strikingly new features, the seemingly traditional elements are not as old as they may appear. While some newer elements are revivals from […] Written by Philip Williamson September 19, 2022September 19, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How Pessimism Is Human Nature In today’s society, being happy and having an optimistic attitude are social expectations that weigh heavily on how we live and the choices we make. Some psychologists have pointed out how happiness has evolved into an industry. In turn, this has created what I call a happiness imperative, the social expectation that we should all aspire to […] Written by Ignacio Moya September 15, 2022September 15, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Significance Of The Queen’s Funeral Great royal events in the United Kingdom are often a mix of old and new, and the commemoration and funeral of Queen Elizabeth II will be no exception. While there will be several strikingly new features, the seemingly traditional elements are not as old as they may appear. While some newer elements are revivals from […] Written by Philip Williamson September 19, 2022September 19, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How Pessimism Is Human Nature In today’s society, being happy and having an optimistic attitude are social expectations that weigh heavily on how we live and the choices we make. Some psychologists have pointed out how happiness has evolved into an industry. In turn, this has created what I call a happiness imperative, the social expectation that we should all aspire to […] Written by Ignacio Moya September 15, 2022September 15, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
5 Challenges Of Education In The Metaverse More and more colleges are becoming “metaversities,” taking their physical campuses into a virtual online world, often called the “metaverse.” One initiative has 10 U.S. universities and colleges working with Meta, the parent company of Facebook, and virtual reality company VictoryXR to create 3D online replicas – sometimes called “digital twins” – of their campuses that are […] Written by Nir Kshetri September 14, 2022September 14, 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
