YCombinator’s Sam Altman reflects on long days and short decades and the 36 life lessons learnt: Tell your parents you love them more often, Be grateful and keep problems in perspective – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 15 Jun (Mon)
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Life
- What Happens When You Don’t Care: JamesAltucher
- Why not giving a damn won’t stand in your way of success; Caring about our work has become a weird status symbol. But it can make us mad and unproductive: FT
- YCombinator’s Sam Altman: 36 Life Lessons I Learned Before the Age of 30; The President of Y Combinator reflects on long days and short decades: Observer
- Read these beautiful Kiswahili proverbs: “Haba na haba, hujaza kibaba.” (Little by little, the container gets filled. While we may overlook small changes, they are the ones which, put together over time, eventually make a difference): Quartz
- How a 10-month-old startup’s founders convinced investors to give them millions of dollars to buy a 93-year-old German razor factory: BI
- Shift to ‘Purpose Economy’: Forbes
- Learning to Love Volatility: Farnam
- Confirmation Bias: How Intelligent People Develop Totally Incorrect Beliefs: Spring
- Do ants have a better traffic algorithm than human engineers or drivers? The number of ants could reach hundreds of thousands, but traffic on the trunk trail – unlike a car-clogged highway – keep moving: WaPo
- How Tony Blair built a business empire in China: Telegraph
- What I learned by reading Businessweek’s incredible 38,000-word article on code: BI
- Tough Choices for Succession in the Family Business: NYT
- How HR ‘Best Practices’ Kill Innovation: Forbes
- Alan Bond, 1938-2015: Bond’s bubble; A fallen hero who personified a wild decade in Australian business: Economist
Books
- Pebbles of Perception: How a Few Good Choices make All the Difference: Amazon
Investing Process
- China’s Hanergy terminates US$585 million deal with parent: SCMP
- Here’s Why Ezra and Noble Group May Actually Deserve Their Shocking Price Declines: fool
- Helping Other CEOs Avoid Bad Press: Social Exchange and Impression Management Support among CEOs in Communications with Journalists: AE
Greater China
- Small Chinese Firm Used Creative Marketing Against Unilever: WSJ
- Western Firms Caught Off Guard as Chinese Shoppers Flock to Web; Unilever, Nestlé and other consumer-goods makers feel the pain after overestimating sales from brick-and-mortar stores: WSJ
- Alibaba Plans Subscription Video Service; Tmall Box Office set to launch in two months, as company aims to be Chinese equivalent of HBO or Netflix: WSJ
- Honesty is an essential element of China’s push for innovation: SCMP
- Half of China’s New Car Dealers Lost Money in 2014, Survey Says: WSJ
- Huge growth in China’s money funds poses risk: FT
- China regulator bans illegal share financing, limits margin trading: WCT
- Towers of Trash Pile Up at China’s Unregulated Landfills: Caixin
- Blessed by Alibaba, Cursed by Beijing; Annual cross-border purchases by Chinese shoppers online are $20 billion, up from $2 billion in 2010: WSJ
- Will Alibaba Spoil Netflix’s Plans In China?: Forbes
- In China, The Devil Now Wears Zara: Forbes
- Is It Time to Short China’s Media and Entertainment Companies?: Forbes
- Cultural Revolution may be to blame for food scandals: Nikkei
- In China’s Pearl River Delta, HSBC faces a risky voyage: Reuters
- Geneva Whodunit Has Chinese Up in Arms Over $1.2 Billion Lost in Alleged Scam: Bloomberg
- China’s $358 Billion in Margin Loans Points to Next Bear Market: Bloomberg
India
- E-Tailer IPOs in India: Barron’s
Japan & Korea
- Japan Inc faces stormy AGMs in governance shake-up: Reuters
- In $8 bln Samsung bid, some Koreans break ranks to side with foreign activist: Reuters
- Harim chief seeks to nurture his company as Korean version of Cargill: Maeil
- Behind corporate doors: Samsung encourages workers to experiment: JA
- Behind corporate doors: Hyundai Motor Group and Chairman Chung Mong-koo : JA
- Shinsegae throws down gauntlet to IKEA: KT
- How to tell if Japan’s shareholder love-in is real: Reuters
ASEAN
- Beneath the Teflon, the real Thai economy story: Nikkei
- S’pore property prices need to drop another 30%: Property fund: TODAY
- Many CPF investors get their fingers burnt: AsiaOne
Macro
- The Dollar Loses Allure: WSJ
- When Private Equity Firms Give Retirees the Short End: NYT
- Hidden Hero of Stock Bull Market No Match for Higher Rates: Bloomberg
- Junk-Bond Defaults Growing as Pressure From Commodities Persists: Bloomberg
Energy & Commodities
- US chemicals companies thrive on shale boom’s cheap gas: FT
- The new oil shock: The great sweating: Forbes
Healthcare
- The innovators: the app that allows patients to track their illnesses: Guardian
TMT
- Europe has produced 13 “unicorns” — technology start ups that have reached a value of at least $1bn — over the past year, according to new research that suggests the continent is producing more significant tech companies than ever before: FT
- Founders of ad tech company Celtra surf mobile advertising wave: FT
- Europe incubates tech’s new billion-dollar babies: FT
- Europe has produced 13 “unicorns” — technology start ups that have reached a value of at least $1bn — over the past year, according to new research that suggests the continent is producing more significant tech companies than ever before: FT
- Marty Bandier, CEO of Sony/ATV, the world’s largest music publishing group: Songs that stand the test of time can generate income year after year. “We pick up bits and pieces like breadcrumbs and when you roll them all together you have: FT
- Collaborative Logistics Comes to the Warehouse; With many major markets squeezed, companies are using new technology that helps them work together to match unused space with goods: WSJ
- How Facebook is eating the $140 billion hardware market: BI
- Harvard professor: ‘Twitter is rapidly becoming the BlackBerry of social media’: BI
- Car Dealers Aim to Curb Online Rivals: WSJ
- Virtual Reality Headsets Raise Very Real Concerns: NYT
- The taxi-hailing company Uber is likely to disrupt the delivery business: Economist
- Disney’s powerful marketing force: social media moms: Reuters
Consumer & Others
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