CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Thibaut Carminho and Lou Campagna, Founders of Tartes & Pop Lou and Thibaut Built the Ultimate Good-Mood Boosting Franchise: Funky Music, a Friendly Staff and Delicious French Tartes What’s your story?Our story is simple and short. It’s the story of two best friends who couldn’t find a good French tart in Hong Kong, so they decided to open their own tart shop. We were both French, […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS KC Ng, General Manager of Collateral Damage Studios During his time in university, KC became involved in the comics and animation society, and illustration became a hobby. In 2013 after receiving an offer he could not refuse he left his day job and founded an internationally recognised illustration studio. What’s your story? Since I was a teenager, I have been passionate about anime […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Patrick Ngan, President & Co-Founder of QF Pay Patrick Ngan is connecting the world through mobile payment, one country a time with his business QF Pay. What’s your story? From being an investment banker to CFO of a HK-listed conglomerate and now a startup. Patrick Ngan is President and Co-Founder of QF Pay, responsible for overseas business expansion, connecting the world through mobile […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP The Current State of The Advertising Industry in India The global advertisement growth rate is around 4.5%, while the expansion rate in India this year was around 12%: Source Deciphering the above figures gives us the opportunity to understand the potential of the Indian advertisement market. And, the traditional media market is making the most of this particular boom. For instance, the revenue generated in […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Borislav Tatarov, Founder of Purified Marketing From Bulgaria to Asia, Borislav Tatarov mastered his SEO skills to return to Asia and set up a successful business. What’s your story? I was working various marketing related jobs in my home country – Bulgaria. However I really didn’t see myself living there. So in 2012, when I was 25, I decided to quit […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
INTERVIEWS Marketing Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When it comes to marketing, everyone wants to talk about the best ways to market or how to be a successful marketer. We tend to search for easy and proven ways. Why don’t we consider the basic marketing mistakes? No one can ever be a great marketer or, for that matter, any kind of an […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
INTERVIEWS Eli Garcia, Founder of Lamax Consulting Group Eli Garcia is a Canadian Chartered Public Accountant (CPA, CGA) and the founder of Lamax Consulting Group, a professional consulting firm that primarily focuses in helping small business owners and entrepreneurs to operate their businesses more efficiently and increase their profits through Market Positioning and Capital Optimization. Eli has extensive knowledge and direct experience managing […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP STARTUPS 3 Things Asian Startups Should Do To Avoid American Rejection The startup world has morphed into a global subculture with technology making us feel like we’re all the same – regardless of cultural or geographical differences. As a startup founder in Asia, especially if you’re based in a smaller consumer market like Singapore, you will likely include other Asian and/or global markets as part of […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP STARTUPS 7 Tips To Create A Startup Without Initial Investment Stop wasting time looking for investors and focus on your customers. Surely one of the tips you’ve heard more if you want to create an entrepreneur or startup. But what is needed to launch a new company from scratch and with your own money? In this post we would like to clarify some of the […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP Top 10 Mistakes Young Entrepreneurs Make In a world where relying on one source of income is not enough and employment is increasingly scarce, a trend is growing as more and more young entrepreneurs have resorted to starting up their own businesses as a means of employment. Although a high number of young entrepreneurs are taking the plunge and going out […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Kristiyan Popov – Co-founder of Digital Marketing Associates This article was originally published here: Kristiyan Popov – Co-founder of Digital Marketing Associates A risk taker, Kristiyan Popov, has combined ambition with what she has learned from the challenges risk involves and believes she can use that to help others. What’s your story? I have always loved to take risks and live day by […] Written by Callum Laing July 12, 2021July 12, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Electric Cars And Mass Adoption An interesting article by Justin Rowlatt on the BBC website, “Why electric cars will take over sooner than you think”, applies the S-curve of the technology life cycle to electric car sales, comparing what is happening at the moment to the spread of internet connectivity in the late ’90s and early ’00s, and concludes that we are at the point […] Written by Enrique Dans July 9, 2021July 9, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Truth About Multitasking According To Research Susan Broniarczyk, associate dean for research and marketing professor at Texas McCombs, doesn’t listen to podcasts while she’s driving. She prefers to focus on one task at a time. “I would say personally, I am the world’s worst multitasker,” Broniarczyk says. But with many people claiming to finish more tasks in less time by tackling […] Written by Texas McCombs July 6, 2021July 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Solving The Mysteries Of Emotion We all know what emotions feel like, but what exactly are they? What is going on in our brain when we feel them, and why have we evolved to have them? These are all questions that science can’t yet answer, although researchers in many different areas, from neuroscience to AI, are trying to get to […] Written by Things We Don't Know July 5, 2021July 5, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Are Tech Giants Above The Law? A US federal court has ruled that the antitrust lawsuits that the Federal Trade Commission and 40 states had filed against Facebook failed to prove conclusively that the company is a de facto monopoly, rejecting the state lawsuits and giving the FTC 30 days to substantiate its arguments. As a result, Facebook shares are up 4%, pushing the company’s share price […] Written by Enrique Dans July 2, 2021July 2, 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
