Search



Technology

Editor Picks Entrepreneurship Featured FeaturedAsianEntrepreneur Features Startups Strategy Technology
Building the Future of Education
Posted On July 9, 2019 The Asian Entrepreneur Authors & Contributors 0

How pedagogical gamification provides insight into a fundamental mind-set shift that educators and learners must embrace to thrive in the digital age. The fundamental question we should be asking children as they grow up is no longer what they want to “be” but rather what they would like to “do.” What …

Continue Reading

Editor Picks Entrepreneurship Featured FeaturedAsianEntrepreneur Features Startups Technology
Can A.I. Enhance Human Creativity?
Posted On July 8, 2019 The Asian Entrepreneur Authors & Contributors 0

The interconnection of creativity with human intelligence, individuality, and neurological processes, is a dynamic and exciting field to study and to work in. Over time, creativity has been of central interest to disciplines such as cognitive science, philosophy, education, technology, economics, linguistics, psychology, and neuroscience — just to mention a few. But, what …

Continue Reading

Editor Picks Entrepreneurship Featured FeaturedAsianEntrepreneur Features Startups Technology
Top 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail
Posted On June 27, 2019 The Asian Entrepreneur Authors & Contributors 0

As a venture capital firm, we see thousands of entrepreneurs pitch us their visionary ideas through sleek slide decks and engaging presentations, the result of hundreds of hours of research, preparation, and execution. At the same time, however, we see startup after startup falling into similar patterns surrounding a lack …

Continue Reading

Editor Picks Entrepreneurship Featured FeaturedAsianEntrepreneur Features Startups Strategy Technology
The Future of Business Models
Posted On June 24, 2019 The Asian Entrepreneur Authors & Contributors 0

Business models can take various forms, depending on a company’s strategy and the way their products and services are dispersed to the market. The taxonomy of business models defines two opposing camps: pipes (a.k.a “pipelines”) and platforms. “Pipes” refers to physical infrastructure and assets that help create products and services, …

Continue Reading

Editor Picks Entrepreneurship Featured FeaturedAsianEntrepreneur Features Startups Technology
The Problem of Big Tech
Posted On June 15, 2019 The Asian Entrepreneur Authors & Contributors 0

We all sort of know the problems, right? Monopolies. Lock-in. Stream addiction. Reality bubbles. Billionaires seeking market dominance. All other values taking a back seat to growth. I don’t think I need to elaborate. If you’re reading this, then you’re probably well aware of all these concerns. But what do we do about …

Continue Reading

Editor Picks Entrepreneurship Featured FeaturedAsianEntrepreneur Features Technology
The Future of Computing
Posted On June 11, 2019 The Asian Entrepreneur Authors & Contributors 0

Ten years ago deploying a development environment sucked. Heroku and AWS were in their infancy, relegated to that special set of developer tools best left to people with beards who listened to Interpol and only drank pour-over coffee. Most of the world still relied on colos — colocated computing centers where you rented a raw …

Continue Reading

Editor Picks Entrepreneurship Featured FeaturedAsianEntrepreneur Features Startups Technology
Digital Transformation is Not about Technology
Posted On June 7, 2019 The Asian Entrepreneur Authors & Contributors 0

As we all know, the internet has already transformed a number of industries from the ground up: from putting travel agents out of a job almost overnight, it went on to disrupt the media industry (music, newspapers, TV) and retail. Currently, banking, insurance, hospitality, automotive and logistics are witnessing unparalleled competition from new entrants in their …

Continue Reading

Editor Picks Entrepreneurship Featured FeaturedAsianEntrepreneur Features Startups Strategy Technology
The Future of Facebook
Posted On June 3, 2019 The Asian Entrepreneur Authors & Contributors 0

No question social media has been one of the big stories of the past decade, with Facebook right in the center of it. It’s a fairly sensational story, full of big numbers. When they reached 2 billion registered users, it’s hard to simply yawn and say, “Oh, that’s interesting.” In …

Continue Reading

Editor Picks Entrepreneurship Experience Featured FeaturedAsianEntrepreneur Features Startups Strategy Technology
Some Reflections on Collective Technologies
Posted On May 28, 2019 The Asian Entrepreneur Authors & Contributors 0

I’ve been thinking about collectives in technology for a while. Collectives in the sense of organisation, and collective in the sense of shared, social value, distinct from individual benefits. In tech, that simultaneously means products and services which serve shared needs, not just individual ones; Doteveryone’s research into digital attitudes last year showed that …

Continue Reading

Editor Picks Entrepreneurship Featured FeaturedAsianEntrepreneur Features Startups Strategy Technology
The Real Future of the Platform Economy
Posted On May 27, 2019 The Asian Entrepreneur Authors & Contributors 0

Transforming Value Chains with Networks In the past few months, I’ve been working hard to provide Platform Design Toolkit adopters and our readers with a clearer representation of the evolution of digitally enabled markets. I shared our understanding of digital markets as distributed in three major layers, that of infrastructures, aggregators and long tail markets. I’ve explained how aggregators play a key …

Continue Reading