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McLaren Strategic Ventures Sajan Pillai Discusses the Top Five Trends for Advancing Global Technology in 2022 

The Startup Magazine

Heralding a new era of digital transformation, technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are being infused exponentially into the world around us. Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Catalyze A Region's Entrepreneurship?

ReadWriteStart

Today, building Internet businesses, or businesses that are primarily marketed through the Internet, is viable for entrepreneurs all over the world. Malaysia is trying hard to build a hub and finding it difficult. It is no longer Silicon Valley's exclusive domain. Discuss.

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[Interview] Pekka Viljakainen, Author of “No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age” (Part II)

YoungUpstarts

This is potentially a politically sensitive question, but I would say that in parts of the United States people are using technology actively. It is also to promote the book for sure, but the idea is that while there is quite a lot of material around this topic, it is scattered all over the Internet.

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From Israel to Pakistan, Community is Key When Building a Startup (Google I/O)

VC Cafe

When I moved to VC, I found out that there were no good consumer internet startups. Jeff – we look at mobile, consumer Internet, games and SaaS. Cause technology changes very fast. My last investment is an enterprise company from Malaysia that went global from day one. They were sporadic. The guy needed $100,000.

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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

YoungUpstarts

What will the future of InfoComm Technology (ICT) be like? Painting the scenario of how things will evolve, Cort Isernhagen of IDC Insights forecasted at the recent Infocomm Technology Roadmap Symposium 2012 that the ICT landscape over the next 10 years needs to consider four macro trends supported by four key pillars of technology.

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Six Companies That Were Targeted In 2017: Seven Lessons We Can Learn From Their Struggles

YoungUpstarts

Former GE CEO Jeff Immelt spoke frequently about a key element of GE’s strategy: establishing the company’s Predix platform as the backbone of the industrial Internet of things. A past employee of McKinsey & Company and Kimberly-Clark, Setili served as an executive with successful disruptive technology startups in the U.S.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I was on vacation in Malaysia. It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. A fashion executive wife and technology entrepreneur husband we were moving house and faced a vexing problem: how to sell their fabulous, nearly new furnishings that couldn’t fit into their new digs? Image Credit: Alex Kroogman.