CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Rhod Needham, Co-founder of Halo Impact Rhod Is Propelling The World Into A Sustainable Future What’s your story?In 2016 I was working for JP Morgan in Hong Kong and had a side business making kids toys in China. Inspired to go down the entrepreneurial route, I made the jump out of banking, gathered what I had learned about manufacturing, partnered with […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Ameesha Lathia, Founder of The Pink Lotus Ameesha Makes Your Home A Unique Reflection Of Your Personality What’s your story?I grew up in Mumbai, India and after finishing my master’s degree in the United Kingdom, I worked as a fashion stylist for a magazine in India. I moved to Hong Kong to be with my husband, and soon after started The Pink […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Cressida Martin, Founder of Strong Like Mummy Fitness Mums Join Cressida’s Virtual Gym For Fitness, Nutrition, Lifestyle & Community What’s your story?I am a health and fitness mentor for women looking to get fit and healthy from home after having children. I grew up near Oxford in the UK and went to Manchester Metropolitan University to follow a career in fashion. I wanted […] 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
ENTREPRENEURSHIP Women on Top in Tech – Sarah Kunst, CEO/Founder of Proday (Women on Top in Tech is a series about Women Founders, CEOs, and Leaders in technology. It aims to amplify and bring to the fore diversity in leadership in technology.) Here is my interview with investor and entrepreneur Sarah Kunst, CEO and founder of Proday, creator of a mobile app which lets you choose workouts from professional athletes and […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Jitesh Chhabria, Co-Founder & CEO of Koach TV Jitesh Chhabria is in the mobile fitness industry as the era of the quantified self evolves What’s your story? As a kid I was asthmatic. So dusty outdoors and physical exertion was not permitted. But technology was my saviour in the form of video games which gave me many breathtaking experiences which I would have […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
INTERVIEWS Joel Neoh, Founder of KFit One of Asia’s most inspiring and successful young entrepreneurs, Joel Neoh is passionate about democratizing technology to enhance the lives of millions of consumers across Asia. In 2015, he founded KFit, a fitness-sharing platform which seamlessly connects consumers and fitness businesses in key cities across Asia Pacific. KFit offers consumers a simple monthly membership that […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Natalie Turner, Founder of Entheo For anyone sitting on the fence as to whether they should explore the business opportunities in Asia, Natalie and Carl have a great story of how they built up a contact base, made the leap and have been thriving in Singapore. What’s your story? in January 2009 I came to Singapore in the dark, cold […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
CALLUM CONNECTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVIEWS Padmini Pandya, Strategic Business Planning of SapientNitro The nature of entrepreneurship is changing almost beyond recognition. Today’s entrepreneurs are as likely to find ways to work with fun organisations as they are to try and start things themselves. Padmini has tried both approaches and has landed with a company that gives her the creative freedom that most of us strive for. What’s […] Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Reality: A Game Of Quantum Mirrors? Imagine you sit down and pick up your favourite book. You look at the image on the front cover, run your fingers across the smooth book sleeve, and smell that familiar book smell as you flick through the pages. To you, the book is made up of a range of sensory appearances. But you also […] Written by The Conversation July 27, 2021July 27, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How Do Olympic Athletes Compare To Insects? Olympians spend years training to be the best of the best. Scientists and sportspeople have spent decades researching the mechanics of the human body to ensure our elite athletes are always reaching higher, faster and stronger. But how do human athletic skills compare with those of insects and arachnids? Once you take the relative sizes […] Written by The Conversation July 27, 2021July 27, 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
Space Tourism: Can It Be More Than ‘Space’ Joyrides For Millionaires? Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson and his team successfully flew to the “edge of space” on the Unity 22 mission aboard a Virgin Galactic plane on July 12. The event was hailed as the start of space tourism, narrowly beating the planned launch on 20 July by fellow billionaire business magnate Jeff Bezos and his firm Blue Origin. But does the 85km (53 miles), the altitude […] Written by The Conversation July 20, 2021July 20, 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
