I joined iPrice in the summer of 2016. At the time, a very promising regional affiliate player with an encouraging initial traction and around 1M monthly users. I left at the end of last year, after a terrific journey which saw us becoming the leading meta-search e-commerce aggregator in SEA, growing our userbase …
Ray the Scientist, Egon the Engineer, Peter the Charmer and Winston the Muscle. Different competencies putting on matching overalls and embarking on a shared mission: saving NYC from ghosts. Here’s how you can inject the same level of awesome to your Agile organization. Don’t worry, ma’am. We know Scrum. As I wrote earlier in The …
Tech companies are facing a growing tsunami of social and ethical risks, and it’s one that they’re desperately ill-prepared to face. Yet by embracing new and emerging ideas around risk and responsibility, there’s no reason why they can’t learn to ride this wave. As new technologies become increasingly intertwined with emerging …
There is no doubt that data is behind of any successful company. Data have been around for decades. Companies were getting benefits from these data by applying different “statistical methods”. After some years, with the growth of data and the revolution of technology, companies started extracting patterns from data which lead to …
The topic of Purpose has become one with increasing salience in the world of business. You can read about it in Forbes, HBR, Inc. and Fast Company. But it appears that the mainstream business press hasn’t really taken on the subject with much depth. If you know Simon Sinek, you are familiar with his concept from …
The new year has come and 365 days gone by since my first visit to Japan. Japan is a showcase of disparity and paradox. Every city visited, it was clear that Japan is at a crossroads. From a foreign vantage point, Japan is continuously at odds with herself. An innovative …
For most non-technical folks, “hacking” evokes the notion of using sophisticated technical skills to break through the security of a corporate or government system for illicit purposes. Of course, most folks who were engaged in cracking security systems weren’t necessarily in it for espionage and cruelty. In the 1990s, I …
"Music is about human beings communicating with other human beings,” said Andrew Dubber, professor of music industry innovation at Birmingham City University and director at Music Tech Fest. Live music has existed for as long as humans have been communicating—that is, since the dawn of man. Here’s a quick history. 100,000 years ago: First …
Ok, I have a confession. Last Thursday, I became yet another Pokémon Go-related statistic when I fell into a hole while walking around my neighborhood. I began playing the new GPS-enabled, augmented reality game, Pokémon Go the minute I learned that I could realize my childhood dream of hunting Pokémon IRL …
We The People (WTP), the global arm of the world’s only multichannel crowdfunding retail chain and community, today announced that it is seeking to expand its presence by offering franchise opportunities to open stores across the countrythrough its U.S. subsidiary Funded USA LLC. WTP established its first U.S.-based store in St. Louis in March 2019 and has plans to open more …
