Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 25 Feb (Wed) – Jetpack dream takes off as Martin Aircraft debuts on ASX; “For years Vanessa worked overtime shifts at night and on the weekends as a nurse to keep the money rolling in, so I could keep plugging away at research and development.”

Life

• Jetpack dream takes off as Martin Aircraft debuts on ASX; “For years Vanessa worked overtime shifts at night and on the weekends as a nurse to keep the money rolling in, so I could keep plugging away at research and development”: BRW

• Nick Leeson on banking: extremely competitive . and improperly policed; Twenty years after he lost £862m and bust Barings bank, the plasterer’s son from Watford talks about his experiences and the wider state of the industry; Barings collapse at 20: How rogue trader Nick Leeson broke the bank: Guardian1, Guardian2
• How Four Seconds Can Dramatically Improve Your Life And Career: Forbes
• Cognitive Exhaustion: Resting Your Mental Muscle: Farnam
• How to Seize the Opportunities When Megatrends Collide: Strategy&
• Daniel Kahneman: The Human Side of Decision Making: VW
• We hunt unicorns but must also value technology zebras; Individuals and start-ups have opportunities and must be allowed to flourish: FT
• James Proud, Hello: Degree skipped, product shipped; James Proud left London for California and created a sleep sensor: FT
• How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed: HBR
• How SEEK codified culture and disrupted performance reviews: BRW
• After Funding, Watch Burn Rates And Beware The Tyranny Of Incrementalism: techcrunch

Books

• Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence: Amazon
• The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas: Amazon

Greater China

• How addiction to debt came to China; Huge increases in private sector credit preceded many financial crises: FT
• ‘Don’t touch the fruits’: Hong Kong fruit vendor’s signs warn mainlanders to back off: Shanghaiist
• From China, Two Members of Billion Dollar Startup Club: WSJ
• Unit of Alibaba turns a mom into a billionaire: CD
• Watch: Dazzling Poor Man’s Fireworks in a Chinese Steel City: WSJ
• Short Sellers Target A-Share ETF After Mainland Rally: Bloomberg
• Beijing’s glare deepens crisis in Macau: Reuters
• Myth of China’s lack of ghettos exposed: WCT
• High Flying Investments: Prices for Racing Pigeons Soar on Demand From China: Bloomberg

India

• Modi Wants to Replace Crowded Slums in India With 20 Million Homes: Bloomberg
• Indian farmers balk at land law reforms: FT
• Can Bvlgari succeed in India in its second coming?: Forbes
• A brilliant opportunity for India to overtake China: A reform-oriented budget should give agriculture the boost to contribute more to a rising GDP: Forbes
• SBI seizing Kingfisher House shows public banks are finally taking on influential defaulters: FP
• Sahara’s woes continue: Supreme Court asks it to explain diversion of funds: FP
• With Triple the Wages, China Is Still a Lure for Indian Producer: Bloomberg
• Retail dilemma in India – nice malls are few and far between: Reuters
• Doctors in India profiteering from sick patients: reports: Reuters

Japan & Korea

• Tycoon Park at crossroads on fate of Kumho Asiana Group: KH
• Japan Inc shops abroad to duck bleak domestic prospects: Reuters
• Bubble Risk Seen in Record Small-Cap Valuations: Korea Markets: Bloomberg
• Low oil price forces South Korean shipbuilders to cut costs: FT
• All in the timing for Korean brands in China: WCT

ASEAN

• Indonesia to crack down on corporate tax avoidance via transfer pricing: Reuters
• Singapore Exchange CEO to Leave Firm after a five-year tenure marked by a decline in activity in regular stocks: WSJ
• U.S. raises concerns over “made in Indonesia” smartphone law: Reuters

Macro

• Regulator fines Aviva Investors £18m after finding the group’s traders manipulated deals to boost their fees at the expense of customers: FT
• Best Stock Pickers Say Easy Money Has Made Their Job Harder: Bloomberg
• Risks squeezed out of banks pop up elsewhere: FT
• “This Shorting Opportunity Is As Great As 2007-2009”, Billionaire Crispin Odey Warns: Zerohedge
• The end of the British establishment; From politics to finance Britain’s old order has lost its way: FT
• Lure of Wall Street Cash Said to Skew Credit Ratings: Bloomberg
• Asia’s FX vulnerabilities, charted: FT

Healthcare

• How to Develop New Antibiotics: NYT
• Shire, Maker of Binge-Eating Drug Vyvanse, First Marketed the Disease; The strategy for a new drug to treat binge-eating disorder reveals how a pharmaceutical company can influence the treatment of a medical condition. NYT

Energy & Commodities

• PREPA, Petrobras, Shell Trading Accused of $1 Billion Plus Oil Fraud Scheme: VW
• Which Oil Stocks Are Most At Risk of Write-Offs? Bernstein identifies major companies from India and China as most vulnerable amid low energy prices. Barron’s

TMT

• Could Jony Ive Pull off an Apple Car?: Newyorker
• How Adobe is kicking back against its disruptors: BRW
• Samsung Electronics may be looking forward to the end of Moore’s Law as a way to gain a new competitive edge: EE
• The key to an $80 billion wearables market? Invisibility. Fortune
• Magic Leap prepares leap of faith headset: FT
• Apple investors eye $1tn valuation target: FT
• Dead phone battery? Welcome to the tiny charger that ends a big problem; Nanotechnology has been harnessed by Israeli firm StoreDot to develop a battery that can be charged in just 60 seconds: Guardian

Consumer & Others

• Reebok is catching up to Under Armour and Nike by going after a different kind of customer; The brand is trying to win over a so-called “tough fitness” customer through partnerships: BI