CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Avijit Dutta – Managing Partner at TenX2 Only a year late in meeting his goal to leave the corporate world by the time he was 40, Avijit Dutta is now excited by his new roles in the area of the Internet of Things. What’s your story? I started my career in the TV media industry with short stints in Zee & MTV, and […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Aaron Lee – Founder of Gabkotech Innovations Pte Ltd After almost 20 years’ experience in the IT industry, tennis playing Aaron is still highly motivated to provide the best solutions to the toughest problems What’s your story? I come from a humble background, yet graduated from the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia in 2001, with a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering (Honors), and […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS STARTUPS Saket Singhi, President of Quick eSelling Inc. Saket Singhi, a serial entrepreneur, has 17 years of experience in successfully incubating and building new teams and ventures. What’s your story?I have been a long-time serial entrepreneur with 17 years of expertise in incubating and building new teams and ventures, resolving business issues quickly and leverage existing investments to develop new business solutions with […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK ENTREPRENEURSHIP STARTUPS STRATEGY TECHNOLOGY How to Spot Technology Trends & Make Them Happen “The future’s so bright I gotta wear shades.” Pat MacDonald How do we visualize the present to create the future? One way to predict the future is to create it collaboratively guided by Supertrends and Wardley Maps. By mapping the technology and business landscape, we can start anticipating the future by looking at patterns of […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Paula Da Silva, Executive Vice President of Global Partners and Alliances of CitiXsys Paula Da Silva has more than 10 years’ experience in the retail industry. Currently, she is responsible for the growth and administration of CitiXsys’ global channel partner ecosystem. What’s your story?Hi, I’m Paula Da Silva, Executive Vice President of Global Partners and Alliances for CitiXsys. I’ve worked in technology throughout my career and more specifically […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Louis Kent Lee, Head of Accounts & Engagement of Viatick With a background in accounting Louis Kent Lee is Head of Accounts & Engagement at VIATICK, a company he co-founded. What’s your story?I’ve always been that kid who goes, “How come?” This has been the reason why I used that same skill set in accounting on stocks and wrote about it for a stock market […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK ENTREPRENEURSHIP STARTUPS STRATEGY TECHNOLOGY The Real Future of the Platform Economy Transforming Value Chains with Networks In the past few months, I’ve been working hard to provide Platform Design Toolkit adopters and our readers with a clearer representation of the evolution of digitally enabled markets. I shared our understanding of digital markets as distributed in three major layers, that of infrastructures, aggregators and long tail markets. I’ve explained how aggregators play a key role in an […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Miyabi Holm, Founder of Bahini Miyabi Holm set up a business with a mission to help young sex-trafficking survivors. What’s your story?Five years ago I worked as a volunteer in Nepal to help young sex-trafficking survivors. Once I got back to my hometown in Sweden, where I worked within tech developing smartphones and IOT speakers, I realized that my heart […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS STARTUPS TECHNOLOGY Amit Gupta, Co-Founder & CEO of Yulu bikes Tell us about yourself and how Yulu was born: I grew up in Kanpur, my family was, and till date remains business oriented, I was the first to be given the liberty to pursue my higher studies. I happened to go to IIT Kanpur which taught me many things including how to be independent. I […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK STRATEGY TECHNOLOGY How the Internet of Things will Impact Finance Investments in the Internet of Things are an important element of the fourth industrial revolution. The real fuel of future economy will be data resources. Information collected by many smart objects will change the landscape both in the financial industry and in the whole industry. When we interact with objects connected to the network, and […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Yamilette Cano – Founder & Confidence Maker of LOUDER Global This article was originally published here: Yamilette Cano – Founder & Confidence Maker of LOUDER Global After years of being a professional ballet dancer, Yamilette Cano decided to use her creativity to help other people find, and promote, theirs. What’s your story? Hi, I’m Yamilette, an entrepreneur, multilingual speaker, coach, confidence maker, content creator, & […] Written by Callum Laing July 29, 2021July 29, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Phil Friedrich – Financial Advisor at Northwestern Mutual This article was originally published here: Phil Friedrich – Financial Advisor at Northwestern Mutual Not daunted by his youth, Phil Friedrich started his financial planning practice whilst still in his teens and helping others generate wealth remains his mission. What’s your story? At 19 years old I started a financial planning practice. Today I run […] Written by Callum Laing July 28, 2021July 28, 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
3 Things Philosophy Can Teach Us About Love Love can seem a primal force, an intoxicating mix of desire, care, ecstasy and jealousy hard-wired into our hearts. The polar opposite of philosophy’s measured rationality and theoretical speculations. Yet if you take any topic in the world, and keeping asking deep questions of it, you will ultimately wind up doing philosophy. Love is no […] Written by The Conversation July 22, 2021July 22, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Tokyo 2021: An Olympics Without Crowds? The Tokyo 2021 Olympics will be the first Games to take place with no spectators. The sight of sparsely populated stadiums and arenas has, of course, become common during the pandemic – and sports economists have studied the impact this has had on athletic performance. But the Olympics are different. For so many athletes, reaching the […] Written by The Conversation July 21, 2021July 21, 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
