BUSINESS & ECONOMICS EDITOR'S PICK ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS STRATEGY Why Entrepreneurs Are Settling in Bali Bali, with its tropical climate, laid-back lifestyle, beaches, jungles and cheap beer, has long been a holiday-maker’s paradise. The ‘Island of the Gods’, a province of Indonesia, is a popular playground and place of reflection for Australian, Asian and, since Julia Roberts had a mid-life crisis on its shores in Eat Pray Love, American travelers. […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Andrea Loubier, CEO of Mailbird Andrea Loubier set up Mailbird – the beautiful and simple way to unify all your inboxes from email, messengers and productivity apps into one modern app. What’s your story? I started my professional career in a market research firm straight after college. I was working with huge multi-million dollar clients. After 6 years I left […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP STARTUPS Mailbird Is On a TV Show & We Need Your Help! I’m super happy to announce that Mailbird is among the 8 finalists for Channel News Asia’s (Singapore) show called ‘Start Up’. The first three episodes has already aired and you can watch them by clicking below. Where We Need Your Help? As you know Mailbird 2.0 is due to come out very soon, we want […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP STARTUPS Save your Email with Mailbird 2.0: The anti-depressant for your Inbox. The Indonesia based Tech Startup Mailbird announced today that it will be launching a rather unusual Crowd-Funding Campaign. The Crowd-Funding Campaign will be in cooperation with Channel News Asia, one of Asia’s biggest TV Channels! Mailbird will be using a platform specially designed for the purpose by the TV Channel effective February 9, 2015. […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
STARTUPS Mailbird is hunting for a C#, .NET Senior Backend Developer Mailbird is the best email client that brings a world of productivity to your inbox on a beautiful platform for email innovation. Mailbird is for Windows. The Mailbird team members are located in Bali, Bandung, India and Copenhagen. Application Deadline : 26 Oct 2014 Location: Bandung, Indonesia preferred, but location is flexible. Working with an international distributive […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP STARTUPS Why You Should Keep Emails Short “This could change your inbox forever.” To just say “keep your emails short” really isn’t specific enough for you to actually follow this piece of inbox management advice. Instead we invite you to the 5 sentence email challenge, meaning emails you compose or reply to should not be more than 5 sentences long. Free up […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP STARTUPS How To Improve Your Email Productivity Workplace productivity is a fundamental cause of concern for many corporations. According to a recent study carried out by research firm Basex; workplace interruptions cost US businesses over $650 billion a year. A primary cause of these interruptions, and subsequent lack of workplace productivity, is inadequate organisation of emails. In 2010, a study revealed that corporate users […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK INTERVIEWS Andrea Loubier, Co-founder of Mailbird Andrea Loubier has a firm background in market research, social science, project management, and content building for software. Through her work, she established solid business relations with major clients which include Proctor and Gamble, KAO brands, Ubisoft, General Electric, Kraft and more. Andrea has a real passion in communications networking and making people happy through […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK INTERVIEWS Andrea Loubier, Co-founder of Mailbird Andrea Loubier has a firm background in market research, social science, project management, and content building for software. Through her work, she established solid business relations with major clients which include Proctor and Gamble, KAO brands, Ubisoft, General Electric, Kraft and more. Andrea has a real passion in communications networking and making people happy through […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How To Disagree Without Making Enemies Have you ever been mocked or abused for your views on COVID? If so, you’re not alone. Anyone wishing to engage in an open dialogue surrounding the pandemic can often encounter a hostile climate, especially online. This extreme polarisation around COVID reflects a broader “culture war” in society, where disagreements on political, cultural and social […] Written by James Gravy September 21, 2022September 21, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How Did Patriarchy Start? The patriarchy, having been somewhat in retreat in parts of the world, is back in our faces . In Afghanistan, the Taliban once again prowl the streets more concerned with keeping women at home and in strict dress code than with the impending collapse of the country into famine. And on another continent, parts of […] Written by Ruth Mace September 20, 2022September 20, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How To Disagree Without Making Enemies Have you ever been mocked or abused for your views on COVID? If so, you’re not alone. Anyone wishing to engage in an open dialogue surrounding the pandemic can often encounter a hostile climate, especially online. This extreme polarisation around COVID reflects a broader “culture war” in society, where disagreements on political, cultural and social […] Written by James Gravy September 21, 2022September 21, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How Did Patriarchy Start? The patriarchy, having been somewhat in retreat in parts of the world, is back in our faces . In Afghanistan, the Taliban once again prowl the streets more concerned with keeping women at home and in strict dress code than with the impending collapse of the country into famine. And on another continent, parts of […] Written by Ruth Mace September 20, 2022September 20, 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
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
