INTERVIEWS Kunal Shah, Co-Founder of FreeCharge Apart from being the Co-founder and CEO at FreeCharge, Kunal Shah is an avid student of behavioral economics & science and a hardcore poker player. A proud college dropout from the NMIMS MBA program, Kunal believes in the power of things being “FREE.” While working at his previous startup PaisaBack, Kunal was struck by an epiphany […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP TECHNOLOGY 10 Vital New Trends for Mobile App Development Now that the market is crammed full with apps and mobile developers, it is time to separate them into three main categories: bad ones, good ones and brilliant ones. Of course, everybody would love to be a part of the last category, but things are not that easy. Nowadays, in order to be impressive, it […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP TECHNOLOGY How the Internet of Things is Transforming Retail A recent survey by TimeTrade reveals that 85% of consumers prefer shopping in a physical store versus online. In-store shopping is still the heart of experience, mainly because there’s an “emotional connection” established between the retailers and shoppers in physical shops. Although some consumers are still after the brick-and-mortar counterpart of online stores, shoppers are […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP STARTUPS STRATEGY TECHNOLOGY What Everybody Should Know About Building Great Apps The mobile app development market is slowly getting crowded with start ups and also big IT companies. As in every other industry, there are those who succeed and those who remain anonymous or worse go bankrupt. Because users are more demanding every day, entrepreneurs must work at high standards and create flawless products. Now, we […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Christine Amour-Levar, Founding Partner of WOAM Singapore Christine left her comfort zone and set up ‘Women on a Mission.’ She is fascinated by the power of women who are passionate about something! When they come together, “extraordinary things can happen.” What’s your story? My passion for sports, adventure and love of languages pushed me to study abroad, travel the world and work […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Adrian, Founder of FastFast Want your package delivered ‘Fastfast’? Adrian at Fastfast has developed an app to connect customers and drivers to ensure the safe and timely delivery of your package. What’s your story? Ever been stuck with an urgent package to deliver at 5:59pm? A group of Singaporean entrepreneurs have decided to do something about it, creating a […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
EDITOR'S PICK Sunil Chaula, Founder of Wiwigo Sunil Chala completed BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi in year 1997. This was followed by 17 years of international experience in product creation, technology and team management. Sunil subsequently spent 10 years in United Kingdom working for companies like Philips Semiconductors and ST-Ericsson Mobile Platforms. Ultimately he decided to embrace his true calling, […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP STARTUPS The common notion of ‘startup success’, isn’t even close to it! If you have been reading up digital news frequently, you already know what’s the most hep topic of conversations today — startups. Call it need of the hour or blame the unicorn success, everyone is after the next big thing. Entrepreneurs are after making an idea the next big thing the world experiences and investors after ‘opportunity’! […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP STARTUPS ‘Paying money in a group with friends- the electronic way’ “The age of awkward group payments is over. The era of smart discussion and money collection is here!” Founded in Delhi in December 2014 by Ankit Singh and Rohit Taneja, Mypoolin.com is the wholesome place where a group of people can plan and pay money together. Usually one of the persons […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ENTREPRENEURSHIP From Factory Worker to Richest Man In Asia, the Story of Li Ka-Shing When Li Ka-Shing was just 14 years old, his father died of tuberculosis. In order to earn money for his family, Li was forced to abandon school and take a job at a plastics factory. The family was so poor that Le actually had to sell his dead father’s clothes for cash to pay for […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
NASA’s Search For Life On Mars Key Takeaway: NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance rover missions are investigating the planet’s evidence for life, known as its “biosignatures,” in unprecedented detail. The rovers are acting as extraterrestrial detectives, hunting for clues that life may have existed eons ago, including evidence of long-gone liquid surface water, life-sustaining minerals, and organic molecules. The Mars of today […] Written by Amy Williams April 30, 2024April 30, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Smartphones & The Source Of Our Anxiety Key Takeaway: Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Anxious Generation, calls for action to limit teenagers’ smartphone access and address the mental health crisis caused by the widespread use of smartphones. Haidt cites the “great rewiring” period from 2010 to 2015 as a time when adolescents’ neural systems were primed for anxiety and depression by daily smartphone […] Written by Hugh Breakey April 29, 2024April 29, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Greater Secrets Of Stonehenge Key Takeaway: A project involving archaeologists, astronomers, and photographers from English Heritage, Oxford, Leicester, and Bournemouth universities, as well as the Royal Astronomical Society, aims to study the lunar alignment at Stonehenge. The project aims to identify the layout of certain stones and the major lunar standstill, which occurs when the northernmost and southernmost moonrises […] Written by Fabio Silva April 22, 2024April 22, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Time May Not Exist Key Takeaway: Modern physics suggests that time may be an illusion, as Einstein’s theory of relativity suggests the universe is a static, four-dimensional block. J.M.E. McTaggart, an English philosopher, published a paper in 1908 arguing that time is unreal using logic alone. He proposed two ways to describe time: the “B-series” and the “A-series”. The […] Written by Matyás Moravec April 19, 2024April 19, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Humility Is The Secret To Leadership? Key Takeaway: A study has found that humble leaders can become more promotable by growing others through a “humility route”. Human capital theory suggests that employees’ value can be enhanced by investing in their knowledge, skills, and abilities. Humble leaders focus on the learning and growth of their followers, creating human capital value for themselves. […] Written by Elsa Chan April 18, 2024April 18, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Did Ancient Scientists & Philosophers Believe In Aliens? Key Takeaway: In 17th-century Europe, there was a debate about the existence of life on other planets due to the transition from a Ptolemaic view to a Copernican view. This led to the idea that if we were more like other planets and moons close to us that revolved around the Sun, they were more […] Written by Philip Almond April 17, 2024April 17, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Building Blocks Of The Universe Key Takeaway: Peter Higgs, the creator of the Higgs boson, has died at the age of 94. Higgs, a great scientist in particle physics, discovered the Higgs boson in 1964 after reading a paper by American theoretical physicist Philip Anderson. This led to the development of the Standard Model, which explained how fundamental particles and […] Written by Harald Fox April 16, 2024April 16, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Rethinking Education Key Takeaways: The Industrial model of education that fueled the modern era and its dizzying reach did its job incredibly well. In his writing, Flynn illustrates study after study, spanning nations and decades, in which modern educational gift of abstraction — a transcendent sign of intelligence, as we saw in Raven’s Matrices — has been […] Written by Anthony Fieldman March 2, 2022October 19, 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