3 Award-Winning Investing Lessons From the Oscars

3 Award-Winning Investing Lessons From the Oscars

By David Williamson | More Articles
March 2, 2014 | Comments (1)

Sunday night’s 86^th annual Academy Awards didn’t disappoint, crowning 12 Years a SlaveBest Picture, while handing out numerous wins to Dallas Buyers Club and Gravity. This group of Oscar nominees didn’t fail to deliver — with groundbreaking cinematography, strong social commentary, and important investing advice.  Read more of this post

Helvetica: one font to rule them all; For the past 50 years Helvetica has dominated design. But, now its pioneer Mike Parker has passed away, is the era of this sleek, modernist typeface drawing to a close?

Helvetica: one font to rule them all

For the past 50 years Helvetica has dominated design. But, now its pioneer Mike Parker has passed away, is the era of this sleek, modernist typeface drawing to a close?

Steve Rose

The Guardian, Tuesday 4 March 2014 19.00 GMT

Helvetica can be seen on the New York subway system and in countless other instantly recognisable logos. Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA Read more of this post

How Maureen Wheeler recovered her sense of self after selling Lonely Planet

Fiona Smith Columnist

How Maureen Wheeler recovered her sense of self after selling Lonely Planet

Published 08 March 2014 00:01, Updated 08 March 2014 00:06

Maureen Wheeler realised how much of her identity was tied up in the job after selling Lonely Planet. Photo: James Davies Read more of this post

Cotton On co-founder Tania Austin keen to accelerate growth at her new chain Decjuba

Caitlin Fitzsimmons Online editor

Cotton On co-founder Tania Austin keen to accelerate growth at her new chain Decjuba

Published 08 March 2014 00:01, Updated 08 March 2014 00:06

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Tania Austin bought Decjuba because she’s not the kind of person who could spend her day “sitting around having coffee and cake” Read more of this post

‘Better to cannibalise myself than wait for others to do it’: Getty Images founder offers free access to stock photos

‘Better to cannibalise myself than wait for others to do it’: Getty Images founder offers free access to stock photos

Published 07 March 2014 10:08, Updated 07 March 2014 12:06

James Cottam

Getty Images co-founder Jonathan Klein (pictured here at the Sochi Winter Olympics for which Getty was official photographic agency) is confident that social media’s youthful users of today will become the professional image purchasers of the future. Read more of this post

The Saïd family made its fortune in large infrastructure projects in the Middle East, but second-generation Khaled Saïd realised early on it was overseeing the family’s portfolio that he had an eye for.

KHALED SAID: PUZZLES AND PASSION

ARTICLE | 6 MARCH, 2014 10:14 AM | BY NICHOLAS MOODY

As a boy growing up in the UK, Khaled Saïd loved puzzles, maths and “figuring things out”. His father, Wafic, had made much of his fortune building significant infrastructure projects in the Middle East during the 1970s and 1980s. But Saïd, 38, had always been interested in the portfolio side of Saïd Holdings, which his father founded in 1987. Solving where he could fit into his family’s business was one more puzzle he had to “figure out”. Read more of this post

‘The gold rush is over’: Don’t quit your day job just for an app idea, Toronto developer warns

‘The gold rush is over’: Don’t quit your day job just for an app idea, Toronto developer warns

Michael Oliveira, Canadian Press | March 6, 2014 | Last Updated: Mar 6 5:56 PM ET
TORONTO — Convinced you’ve got a brilliant app idea that would surely make you rich if you could just learn to code?

Think again before quitting your day job, warns Matt Coombe, co-founder of the Toronto-based app development company Get Set Games. Read more of this post

How GE Gives Leaders Time to Mentor and Reflect

How GE Gives Leaders Time to Mentor and Reflect

by Raghu Krishnamoorthy  |   11:00 AM March 6, 2014

It is 6:00 a.m. David is starting his first day as the “leader in residence” at Crotonville, GE’s global leadership institute, with a jog around the running trail with a couple of twenty-somethings who are half his age and might be five levels below him on an org chart. Their run is companionable; their discussion, candid. It is a serendipitous moment of connection that the three will always share. Read more of this post