Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 4 Feb (Wed) – 15 successful entrepreneurs share the most important lesson they learned in their 30s
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Life
- 15 successful entrepreneurs share the most important lesson they learned in their 30s: BI
- Bringing an Entrepreneurial Mindset to the World’s Failing Systems: HBR
- A history of hustling gives hip hop its entrepreneurial edge; Rappers facility with commerce can teach us about the value of human capital: FT
- How to Lead in Ambiguous Times; Stability, resilience, and relationships are the keys to thriving amid geopolitical crises. Strategy&
- Don’t Ask for New Ideas If You’re Not Ready to Act on Them: HBR
- Copy Martin Luther King and use the language of the greats: FT
- Celebrate engineers over X Factor stars, says Professor Brian Cox: Telegraph
- Fundraising for start-ups: cash from nearest may be dearest; Sometimes there is no alternative to borrowing from friends or family: FT
- Extract from ‘Editor Unplugged’: The people Vinod Mehta admires: Forbes
- Why It’s So Hard to Fill Sales Jobs; ‘Salesman’ Baggage Means Well-Paying Tech-Industry Positions Go Begging: WSJ
Greater China
- Investors finally abandon “junk stocks” in face of regulatory crackdown; Only 78 Chinese firms have been delisted since China established its modern stock market in 1990 and not a single stock was delisted from 2008 until mid-2014. Reuters
- Why Did the Chinese Executive Disappear? It’s ‘Personal’: Bloomberg
- Chinese Retailers Play Poker in Empty Malls as Shoppers Go Online: Bloomberg
- China’s anti-corruption probe broadens into finance sector; Bankers’ arrests appear to be targeting political patronage networks: FT
- Labour unrest: Out brothers, out! Guangdong province pioneers a new approach to keeping workers happy: Economist
- China’s high agricultural stockpiles complicate reform efforts; China has amassed 60 per cent of the world’s cotton stocks, prompting an announcement by Beijing last year that it would release its cotton holdings. FT
- Want Want Group chairman remains Taiwan’s richest man: WCT
- Is There A Tech Bubble In China?: Techcrunch
- Mao in demand than ever: Chinese actors line up to play leader; Rash of historical propaganda television shows leads to scores of lookalikes flocking to portray the veteran Communist party leader: Guardian
- World Bank Probes $1 Billion China Loan; Questions Sparked by Complex Transaction Involving Two Arms of Bank: WSJ
- China Estimates Largest Capital Outflow in More Than a Decade in Final Quarter 2014: WSJ
- Behind Bull Run: A Bet on Nimbler State Giants; Investors Hope Growth Slump Will Spur Beijing to Unlock Behemoths’ Hidden Potential: WSJ
- Proper land sale system may cause more Kaisas; bribes can cost a fifth of property sales: SCMP
- Hong Kong property stocks tumble as government warns of housing bubble: SCMP
India
- Hardline Indian Hindus become Modi’s enemies from within: Reuters
- Burger King’s Helping Hands In India: Forbes
- Modi Taps $19 Billion Hoard as India Chases China Growth: Bloomberg
Japan & Korea
- Abenomics Gets Boost, But for How Long?: WSJ
ASEAN
- Crime-Fighting Measures in Jakarta Take a Modern Twist on Classics: JG
- Editorial: Basuki Will Do What the Police Won’t: JG
- Firms fret as Vietnam drops digits to meet mobile phone demand: Reuters
Macro
- Gallup CEO: “America’s 5.6% Unempoyment Is One Big Lie”: LinkedIn
- Meet the 80-Year-Old Whiz Kid Reinventing the Corporate Bond: Bloomberg
- Nestle’s corporate bonds traded at negative yields, highlighting investors’ desperate search for cash-conserving investments following the move by the European Central Bank to drive down borrowing costs across the continent. FT
- Reach for returns takes funds into the shadows; Asset managers delve deeper into shadow bank territory for returns: FT
- Bond Buyers Escape Wall Street to Computerized Shadows to Trade: bloomberg
TMT
- How Satya Nadella has changed Microsoft in just one year: BI
- Welcome to year 11 of people worrying about a tech bubble: BI
- Technology’s next 25 years belong to the world, not the US: FT
- ‘Hidden strong players’ alter smartphone landscape; Smaller competitors with unique strategies threatening Samsung: JA
- Five Questions About Amazon Prime That Jeff Bezos Still Won’t Answer: Bloomberg
- What Amazon’s learned from a decade of Prime: WaPo
- A booming video game market is putting the strain on networks featuring real-time graphics-heavy games. WSJ’s Sarah Needleman explains how firms are investing in solutions.: WSJ
Energy & Commodities
- Cash-Starved Oil Producers Trade Treasured Pipelines for Money: Bloomberg
Consumer & Others
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