CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Sulayman Tun-Ismail – Entrepreneur Sulayman Has Pioneered Completely Digital Business Cards What’s your story? I grew up and was educated in Australia before returning to Malaysia to join a big regional bank. The first year, when I received my business cards, the printed details were smudged on most of the cards. It was pretty annoying having to manually mark every […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Bradly Ng – Director of Sky Matters Limited Bradly’s DIY Platform Provides Interactive Marketing Solutions What’s your story?Starting at a young age, I always wanted to set up a business where I could interact with people. I was fortunate to study and live in The Netherlands and Canada for over 15 years which gave me the opportunity to explore and understand the European […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Zhou Wenhan, CEO of Smart Walkie Talkie Wenhan started his career in the mobile space back when apps where something on Nokia (dumb)phones. Now he is looking ahead to bring mobility to underserved enterprise workers. What’s your story?My career has been built around the mobile space. I got into mobile (2009) really early by trying to create a J2ME/WAP app for a […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Edric Lin, Country Director of Wanted.Jobs Edric Lin heads up the team at Wanted.Jobs – Asia’s first recruiting platform powered by social referrals. What’s your story? Having been a market launcher at three other startups within big data and MarTech – I specialize in bringing disruptive technologies into new markets. I also spent 2 years at LinkedIn – helping companies in […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Bent Rye, CEO & Chairman of Temasys Bent Rye has broad experience in direct and partner sales, scaling of business operations and large deal management. What’s your story? I have been part of building the Internet for almost 20 years with Cisco – first in Europe, then worldwide based at Cisco HQ in Silicon Valley. It was a tremendous experience to be […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Jeffrey Liu, Co-Founder & CEO of GuavaPass With such a robust startup ecosystem in Singapore, Jeffrey decided to launch GuavaPass, a fitness-based app focusing on high-quality, boutique studios and group fitness. What’s your story? I started my career on Wall Street before moving to the West Coast to join a women’s fashion e-commerce startup. The lifestyle in Santa Monica was infectious and […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ENTREPRENEURSHIP STARTUPS STRATEGY Science is the Next Big Thing in Startups From pharmaceuticals to petrochemical processes: Newcomer companies and investors and investors alike are setting their sights on science. How the start-up scene moves beyond the mobile apps bubble… For the last two years Silicon Valley analysts and venture capitalists are anticipating the burst of yet another bubble. This time, under the risk are the mobile […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK ENTREPRENEURSHIP STARTUPS STRATEGY TECHNOLOGY Building Yelp: A History Lesson In the fall of 2004, Jeremy Stoppelman caught the flu. He had just arrived in San Francisco that summer, so he jumped online in hopes of finding a recommendation for a doctor. Instead, all Stoppelman found were bare bones directories and useless information. But this gave him an idea. He and Russel Simmons were in […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Nicholas Lim, Business Development of Eatsy Nicholas Lim started Eatsy, a food and beverage app, with an old friend over a meal of sushi… What’s your story? After 4 years in Singtel serving corporate clients, and with the big three O (30 years old) looming, I could no longer hold back my desire to do something more challenging and meaningful. My […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Lex Na, CEO of Bountie Pte Ltd Lex is the founder of a digital agency, a couple of e-commerce businesses and he has just started a gaming, tech, blockchain business, Bountie.io which is his main focus. What’s your story? I’m a workaholic, not because I’m forced to but I absolutely love the grind. I may be conditioned due to my previous gaming […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
TJ Neathery – Founder & CEO Best and Niche Marketing This article was originally published here: TJ Neathery – Founder & CEO Best and Niche Marketing Being a storyteller who constantly asks why has led TJ Neathery into a career in marketing. What’s your story? I’ve always been fascinated with connecting people through storytelling. My academic journey led me through film studies toward an MFA […] Written by Callum Laing May 13, 2022May 13, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
5 Ways Big Data Is Changing The World The primitive era had land — rich wilderness upon which the first civilizations were built. The industrial era had giant steel machines capable of carrying humans across the globe to expand our influence. And what about this age? What will we use to change the world? The answer, of course, is data. Information made of […] Written by Ella Alderson May 12, 2022May 12, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Definition Of Living Who am I? It seems like such a simple question. Most of us wouldn’t hesitate. We would answer by referencing our cardinal points of orientation—things most of us will tell you “define a life”. We give them labels to point toward our lineage, contexts and shared rituals. The most powerful of these identity-givers are our […] Written by Anthony Fieldman May 10, 2022May 10, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Uncovering One Of A.I.’s Deepest Mysteries The black box problem is a profound mystery surrounding AI. It says that we may understand the input, we may understand the output, but the AI’s decision-making process which bridges these two is a black box we can’t seem to peer inside. When given the task of helping diagnose patients, for example, why might an […] Written by Ella Alderson May 9, 2022May 9, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Why Data Is The Future Of Healthcare A growing number of studies around the world show that healthcare is steadily evolving into a science based on the analysis of mass data, on detecting the signs that make it possible to know, evaluate and eventually treat a person’s health problems preventively. This is a transformation that will fundamentally affect the development of science […] Written by Enrique Dans May 6, 2022May 6, 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
