For the most parts, ICOs sound and look like the modern day gold rush. An ICO or an Initial Coin Offering is the imperfect blend of an IPO (Initial Public Offering) and Crowd Funding. Although it’s been in existence for the last 4-5 years, it started gaining colossal popularity in 2017. For instance, just last year companies like Tezos raised $232M, Filecoin raised $257M, Bancor…
Spend a few minutes online today and you will see many gems, and slogans that ambitious women would do well to pin up on their wall. Messages of appreciating women and respecting the work they do. This is lovely – so thank you, if I do say so myself! Women became the big story in 2017 with the #MeToo movement – from online petitions to open…
You may have heard the term ‘blockchain’ and dismissed it as a buzzword or maybe thought it was a technical jargon that may need one too many engineering degrees to use authentically in a dinner conversation. It is perhaps currently the most popular and widely implemented example of the Byzantine Fault Tolerance – and those of us who had to endure long hours of game…
If you spend a few minutes reading online advice to entrepreneurs, one thing becomes clear from the start – entrepreneurs are encouraged to be arrogant. ‘Fake it till you make it’ ‘You can be often wrong, but never uncertain’ ‘You have to be your own walking billboard’ ‘Steve Jobs was arrogant’ And the list goes on and on. This shouldn’t come as a surprise. Start-up…
Throughout history, every great breakthrough often came with negative consequences and side effects. It’s the same story with blockchain. The technology has the potential to revolutionise every industry it comes into contact with. But the current excitement pertaining to quick profits with cryptocurrencies is causing many early adoptors to overlook the side effects that come with such a disruptive breakthrough. Ever since Bitcoin mania entered…
Lets take a moment here and think of how money has evolved over time. It was invented some 2000 years ago as a medium of exchange. Coins replaced the barter system, and evolved into banknotes, which evolved into cheques, which evolved into credit and debit cards, and now mobile payments. This is more or less where we are now. The big question is what happens…
A year is a long time – long enough in fact for anyone to achieve the goals they set. If you feel like you’re in a rut, or more possibly lost when everybody around you is talking about their latest bitcoin investments – it might be a good idea to think about what you could be doing to stay more relevant, especially if you’re someone…
Another year has come to an end. And as it often does, it ends with me revisiting the past year. With the help of my word files, and a ritualistic picking of photos on my phone, I looked back at what happened. This ‘looking back’ is always inflected with lessons that often overwhelm the feeling of what is being remembered. Unlike the previous years, 2017…
Having recently endured a month of rehabilitation from continuous work, I was in dire need for some powerful inspiration to tackle 2018 with a renewed sense of calling. And the 110th National Day address by His Majesty the King of Bhutan was exactly that. I’m sure that I speak for everyone who witnessed (or in my case, listened on the radio as we ascended towards…
While a massive part of marketing depends on hard data and empirical analysis, today’s customers crave personal connections with the brands they interact with. For the budding technology startups in Southeast Asia, it is easy to get muffled in the unit-economics game, but the real race begins at the start of a customer’s journey. Every company is more than the products and services they sell…
