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When it comes to beginning your business, the first obstacle to succeeding is usually your startup capital. In spite of the joy that follows a bright business idea, the chances of success can be slim where there is no capital available to its founder. Experts have agreed that many businesses usually wind up within the first year of starting for di...
15 May 2019 /startups
Shailendra Malik SVP - Tech Delivery (Data Platform) at DBS Bank
As Amazon’s mothership arrives (on paper), the current systems existing in the space suddenly start looking smaller by a far distance. SpaceX had similar designs, but they were doing it under the guise of Mars colonization. With SpaceX completing a feat of landing its multiple rockets back on three different landing zones (one even non-stationary
13 April 2019 /security
Social media is everywhere, and there’s a good reason for all the hype. It’s not just a convenient feature in our everyday lives, but a very useful tool for companies who want to gain extra exposure for their services and bring themselves even closer to their audience. However, using social media correctly requires a bit of expertise, and is not e...
02 April 2019 /startups
Anna Kuzmina Expert at Fintech
Recently I got invited to the event named this way. It is not the first time I hear such names or topics, but I guess I blacked it out of memory. It disturbs me deeply. “Women in fintech” sounds just as ridiculous as “Men in fintech”, or “Dogs in engineering”. Like wow, you are women, and you are in fintech. Congrats on that! You got job! That i
09 March 2019
Many startups fail not because they are working on their product wrong, but simply because they fail to identify the current needs of the market, and bring out a product that nobody has even asked for in the first place. Contrary to what some think, marketing isn’t just about promotion – it starts at the product design phase, and it’s important to...
20 October 2018 /startups
Artificial intelligence – or AI for short – is all around us today, and we’re on the brink of a revolution. Not long from now, this technology will be integrated into all parts of our lives, and those who hurry to integrate it into their own workflows now are the ones that will benefit the most from this development in the long run. When it comes ...
14 September 2018 /ai
The phenomenal growth of Alibaba has made many of its executives very rich but life outside the online retailer can be challenging - as former chief operating officer Li Qi has discovered. Li Qi joined Alibaba in 2000 just a year after the company was founded by Jack Ma. Li rose to become COO in 2005 but left the retailer three years later to study...
05 September 2018 /startups
While researching on potential use cases of a Gig economy I stumbled upon an article that narrated the story of potential of a Gig Economy or Gig culture in an organisation. The author narrated a scenario where a company’s disengaged employee spends time on picking up small gigs that gives the person Real Satisfaction which she never gets in her w...
23 August 2018 /devops
A whistleblower website, put up in an attempt to persuade Swiss authorities into looking into Fabien Gaglio in more detail, alleges a large-scale financial fraud. The owners of the website, www.hottingersa.com, claim to have exclusive leaked documents from an investigation by the Geneva Public Prosecutor into Gaglio over suspicions that he might ha...
04 August 2018 /security
AI is all around us these days, and its presence is only going to grow stronger. Affiliate marketing is a field that can benefit from this trend particularly well, and exploring what AI can do for you – as well as learning a few lessons from it along the way – should be one of your top priorities as an affiliate marketer. Companies like Affiliate2...
21 July 2018 /ai
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