No Chance No Dance: An Entrepreneur Does Whatever It Takes

Ashu Garg solved a Rubik’s cube at age 11. I attempted to do the same thing, except my strategy involved taking it apart, That was my confession for this week’s Wednesday

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2 months ago

From Maverick To Meta-Entrepreneur: Naveen Jain’s Rules to Live By

Naveen Jain isn’t interested in predictability or stability. The tech industry maverick is crazy in all the right ways. If you want to read up on his extensive list of accomplishments click here.

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2 months ago

Architects of the Future

Ranbir (Ron) Gupta is an architect turned futurist and entrepreneur. He is a distinguished alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

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2 months ago

The 3 Things Necessary for AI To Reach Its Full Potential

AI will soon be woven into every feature of our lives. Regardless of the doomsday predictions and idealized futurist visions, it is an unavoidable milestone in the evolution of humanity. Prith Banerjee has worked with

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2 months ago

Educating Generation Alpha

The CTO of Ansys, a future-focused engineering simulation and 3D design software company, has been working in computer science since 1971. Prith Banerjee has worked with

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2 months ago

Art the Great Equalizer

Ruma Acharya and her husband started the Tagore Center Foundation in 2015. The mission of the nonprofit is to build a cultural touchstone on a 14-acre plot in Houston Texas.

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2 months ago

3D Printing Lends A Hand

Dipak Basu never had a grand vision. Throughout his life, he has found himself in the right place at the right time. Originally a technologist working in the telecommunications space for Cisco,

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2 months ago

Calling All Engineers

Naren Gupta is a technologist, mathematician, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. Over his expansive career, the founder of Nexus Venture Partners has remained on the cutting edge of tech.

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2 months ago

Is Diversity the Solution to Our Data Sharing Problem?

Beena Ammanath’s career has always revolved around making the world a better place. Working at the intersection of technology and business, she is interested in the

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2 months ago

The Future of Data

AI is all the rage right now. Everyone wants a piece of it, but Mohit Aron remains focused on his first love, data. The IIT Delhi alumnus, co-founder and CTO of Nutanix, and founder and CEO

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2 months ago

What it Takes to Feed 1.8 Million Children Every Day

Vandana Tilak never imagined she would be a CEO, especially not in her fifties. Looking back on the varied experiences in her life, it is clear to her that everything prepared her for the role she is in today as CEO of

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2 months ago

Just Say Yes: The Cost-Benefit Analysis of Listening to the Voice Within

How does a software engineer become a U.S. Memory Champion, keynote speaker, and memory coach? By watching TV. Like most of us, Chester Santos was working at a nine to five and relaxing

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2 months ago

Just Say Yes: The Cost-Benefit Analysis of Listening to the Voice Within

DC Agarwal is a somewhat mysterious figure. Only his college buddies from IIT Bombay know what the DC stands for. Now in “retirement” after a long and successful career in the transit industry, he is not in

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2 months ago

Beating the Odds in Vegas: How Adam Steck Built An Empire

In our “new normal” existence, some industries are thriving and some are being forced to adapt. Delivery services, hand sanitizer, and Netflix are cashing in and restaurants, hotels, and concert

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2 months ago

Pivoting to Purpose: Business Model Innovation in a Post Pandemic World

We live in an increasingly digital world. We can ask Alexa to play our favorite song, set the temperature of our living room from our phone, and order food from

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2 months ago

Digital Farming: The Future of Agriculture and Food Processing

We live in an increasingly digital world. We can ask Alexa to play our favorite song, set the temperature of our living room from our phone, and order food from

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2 months ago

Connecting the Dots: How A Hiking Trip Started a Business

Kapil Dev Singh took the long way to become an entrepreneur. He started with a civil engineering degree from IIT Delhi and then went to work as a civil servant. After that, he got his Master’s Degree

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2 months ago

Moral of the Story: Entrepreneurs Follow Your Passion

Arjun Malhotra has done it all. Throughout his colorful and adventurous story, he has said yes to the challenges of life and turned them into golden opportunities.

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2 months ago

What Will It Take to Feed Ten Billion People Sustainably?

It’s hard to believe that it’s 2020 and people are still starving. What do we have to do to correct world hunger and get nutritionally rich food to everyone who needs it? I sat down with Manoj Kumar, CTO of Ripple Foods, to find out.

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2 months ago

COVID Silver Linings: The Future Of Education

“Some of the best years of my life were at IIT.” This is a sentiment I hear echoed by all of the graduates I have been interviewing for the IIT 2020 Impact Video Series. Our recent guest, Umang Jain, CTO of Zovio, was no exception.

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2 months ago

Going Digital: AI and APIs Make It Easier to Have an Impact Than Ever

The central theme in our worldly evolution is the digitalization of every sphere of the economy. Education, healthcare, financial services, logistics, transportation, content, and media,- it’s all going online and the COVID pandemic is expediting the process.

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2 months ago

The Power of Asking The Right Questions: What Traditional Entrepreneurs Stand to Learn From Policy Entrepreneurship

Why the key to collaboration is communication. What traditional entrepreneurs can learn from policy entrepreneurship. How policy entrepreneurship affects the economy.

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2 months ago

Empathy and Giving Back: The Future of Business

The ways COVID is changing entrepreneurship. Global solutions for a post-pandemic world. The power of educational reform for impoverished youth.

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2 months ago

Entrepreneurial Success In A Post Pandemic World

Which skills you need to develop to succeed as an entrepreneur in 2020. The two most important entrepreneurial skills that people never talk about. How to scale your business to create exponential impact.

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2 months ago

Bridging the Skills Gap In A Post Pandemic World: Life Lessons from IIT

What questions we need to be asking about the future of education. Why collaborative learning is essential for innovation. The global skills gap.

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2 months ago

Riding the Third Wave: Trends and Investment Opportunities in Medtech

The healthcare sector has a paradoxical relationship with technology. In some areas, medicine is racing ahead by introducing revolutionary new drugs and devices, while in others, it lags almost embarrassingly far behind. Surgeons can perform arthroscopic

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2 months ago

Trust Issues: The Challenge with Healthcare Data

Data is the new oil. The potential influence of data is analogous to the way oil shaped the geopolitical landscape as the world transitioned from a coal-based economy. Just like oil, data has a dual nature.

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2 months ago

Why the Future Belongs to Neophytes Not Experts

Are you a dreamer? Do you want to change the standard of living for billions? Can you imagine living in a world where we fulfill our loftiest human potential? Setting greatness into motion could be as simple as asking three questions.

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2 months ago

Do we know too much about our players? AI and Las Vegas Gaming

The United States has the most advanced software and information technology (I.T.) services industry globally. More than 40 percent of the $5 trillion global I.T. market is in North America, primarily the United States. The industry accounts for $1.8 trillion of U.S. value-added GDP

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2 months ago

How SMB’s are contributing to the American and Global Economy

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2 months ago

Technology and Future of Entertainment

One of the first examples of artificial intelligence influencing the media and entertainment industries is TiVo, a cable service that makes personalized recommendations based on users “viewing habits. For example, Captive combines blockchain technology with AR to create new user experiences that

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2 months ago

Why are there so few women unicorn founders?

In most industries where women dominate purchasing power, female-led companies are experiencing rapid and exponential growth. For example, Pat McGrath Labs, a cosmetics company of the same name headed by a famous make-up artist, became a unicorn in 2018, as did Huda Beauty and Canva

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2 months ago

Lessons for the entrepreneurs from mountaineers scaled the world’s tallest mountain Meta Entrepreneur Series (2)

Inspired by Neeraj Choudhary, a mountaineer who just scaled Mt Everest

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2 months ago

Journey of Butterfly and its relevance to Entrepreneurship – Meta Entrepreneur Series (1)

The Butterfly birth process; Butterfly, had to go through one of the most arduous birth processes. It needs to get out of the cocoon on time. Butterflies start as caterpillars and find

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2 months ago

Can Las Vegas be the energy valley for the world?

Gavin Isaacs is a legend in the global gaming technology world, and he has inspired me to write this article.

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2 months ago

Serverless Architecture and future of applications development – Function as a Service (FAAS)

Live a little and hack your intellectual health by harnessing the power of hormones – serotonin endorphins, oxytocin, and dopamine. Aren’t we slaves to serotonin, endorphins, oxytocin, and dopamine? The production of these hormones determines our mood to the outcome of a business meeting.

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2 months ago

Serverless Architecture and future of applications development – Function as a Service (FAAS)

The recognition algorithm is not dependent on several neural networks. It applies a single neural network to the overall picture. It does not classify images into categories, but it can recognize multiple objects in an image. The recognition algorithm does not predict the class label but can detect the object’s location.

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2 months ago

Serverless Architecture and future of applications development – Function as a Service (FAAS)

One of the essential decisions software architects and developers have to make when creating a new cloud software application is whether there is a way to connect to backend services and perform backend tasks without worrying about the server or its scalability.

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2 months ago

75 Years Of Independence Of India And The Future Of Our World. India Rising What Does It Means To World

Seventy-five years ago, on August 15, 1947, India gained its independence. Indeed, its global interaction with India has defined it as an independent nation throughout its history. The Indian

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2 months ago

What Entrepreneurship Requires: Passion with Conviction

The element of being an entrepreneur is not the vision. It recognizes who you are and where you want to go, but

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2 months ago

New Battery Tech – Solving Energy challenges of the future of cities

The battery value chain is also seen as a major economic opportunity — the global market is expected to reach $90 billion in the next decade. Rechargeable batteries are an integral component

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2 months ago

Computer Vision & Artificial Intelligence Privacy For Everyone or Anyone?

There are well-intentioned political elements spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine to stir up discord and exacerbate political divisions globally. Given the ongoing transmission of

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2 months ago

Is The World Polarized Over The Covid Vaccination?

There are well-intentioned political elements spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine to stir up discord and exacerbate political divisions globally. Given the ongoing transmission of

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2 months ago

Do you have passion with conviction?

This article is based on my conversation with Ashu Garg, General Partner at Foundation Capital Asha Garg solves the Rubiks Cube at 11. He confessed that on Confessions of a Futurist with Sanjiv Goyal,

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2 months ago

Entrepreneurship Is The Genesis Of Business Innovation And Growth.

When a pain point is identified in a proprietary product or a competitor product, the company brings creativity to find and test solutions that bypass or eliminate pain and make innovation marketable.

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2 months ago

Can Computer Vision Deliver Better Consumer Experience?

As with most things in today’s market, the customer experience is changing, and it’s more about personalized service through technology, as companies connect with their customers in new and exciting ways. For example, when you book a holiday over the phone, the person you are talking to is friendly,

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2 months ago

What is Digital Signature?

My name is Sanjiv Goyal, and as president of the IIT Delhi Excellence Foundation, I write to share an urgent message. Four months ago, I introduced the prime minister of India, Narender Modi to 17000 people at

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2 months ago

As Covid sweeps India, experts say cases and deaths are going unreported

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2 months ago

IIT 2020: Pan IIT’s largest Global Virtual Summit, Dec. 4-5, 2020

Our 2020 Global Summit “the Future is Now” will address issues in global economic development, health, food, supply chain, education, and environment, by bringing Thought-leaders on the Economy,

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2 months ago

4 Unique Ways to Improve Your Grocery Store Marketing – Great Article found on web

According to a survey conducted by Information Resources Inc., 52 percent of shoppers choose the grocery store they’ll shop at based on which store offers the lowest prices on the items they’re looking for.

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2 months ago

Uber is losing more than $1 billion a year in China (Repost of an article I found on the internet)

Is it new way of doing business, where you have to lose money to be someone. We have seen sad demise of webvan to several other organizations. I don’t think Uber is that bad. However, investors should do a sanity

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2 months ago

Interesting news of last week

Obama has nearly killed the American Dream. No wonder voters are turning to fantasy politics: The country is experiencing its worst economic recovery since World War II and is witnessing its power and

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2 months ago

Interview questions one should ask every job candidate

1. If I call your manager and ask him, what one thing irritate them about you, what will they say?

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2 months ago

Most partner engagement portal doesn’t work?

Organization spends lot of energy and resources in recruiting partner. Some does very good job of using web as a tool to educate and collaborate with partner. I specifically would like to discuss

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2 months ago

5 Attitudes That Define Great Leaders (reposted Joseph Folkman article)

I’m a behavioral statistician who covers evidence-based improvement I typically work with huge datasets and draw conclusions based on thousands of leaders. Recently, however, I was working with a small dataset of just 30 leaders. These leaders work for a high tech company with more than

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2 months ago

Visa Opens its Global Network with Launch of Visa Developer

“At VenueNext we’re on a mission to transform venue experiences, and a big part of this is making payments seamless for both the guest and the venue operator”

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2 months ago

Is microservices the future of all application architecture?

Covid has shown us that humanity can continue to thrive even with all the adversities as long as our infrastructure remains intact. The last three decades of technological innovation have kept our world going.

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2 months ago

America is probably the only country built by entrepreneurs

America is the only country built by entrepreneurs! Entrepreneurs have this unfathomable ability to identify opportunities for improvement and new business. That has led so many of them to success.

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2 months ago

Social Equity through Entrepreneurship

Do you consider how your business practice affects wealth creation and distribution in society?

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2 months ago

Can the Airlines Industry cut net carbon emissions by 2050 with government and energy industry support?

How can the Industry cut net carbon emissions by 2050 with government and energy industry support?

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2 months ago

Think like an entrepreneur to change the world

There are many different types of entrepreneurs, but they all share one thing in common: the drive to succeed.

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2 months ago

Impact of Technology in the Alcohol Industry?

The alcohol industry is one of the world’s largest and most profitable markets. It is also one of the most fragmented, with a wide variety of producers, wholesalers, and retailers operating independently from each other.

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2 months ago

The FU money or The FU mindset

What is the real question? The FU money or The FU mindset. I had an interesting conversation with a dear friend yesterday, which transpired in this post. We talked about

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2 months ago

Is pain the pathway to happiness?

The last few years have been a fantastic journey, and thank you, universe. I went on an epic hike yesterday. First, I couldn’t get to see the summit. I was exhausted, so I gave up.

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2 months ago

Can Synthetic AI transform Las Vegas, the entertainment capital of the world

Las Vegas is a major tourist destination known for its casinos, hotels, and entertainment. The city’s economy is heavily dependent on the tourism industry, which generates billions of dollars in revenue each year.

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2 months ago

Ethics & AI in Casino Gaming – do we need to define standards?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to impact many different sectors, including the casino industry. Several ethical considerations should be considered when using AI in the casino industry.

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2 months ago

Sales Enablement and Optimization Best Practices for Alcohol Distribution Businesses

Sales enablement and optimization for alcohol distribution businesses can be complex and challenging. With a wide variety of products and customers, it’s crucial to have a solid strategy to ensure your sales team is as

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2 months ago

The Power of Perspective: Adversity can be a blessing

When I look back last few decades of my life, one word comes to mind adversity.’ every time, I feel that I am going through a tough time. I have moved forward, and it was almost impossible at all those times.

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2 months ago

“Creating a Data-Driven Decision-Making Framework for Alcohol Beverage Distributors: A Comprehensive Guide”

This article will discuss the importance of utilizing depletion data and other data sources to make informed decisions and drive growth for alcohol beverage distributors.

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2 months ago

Recession 2.0: Are We Prepared for a Different Economic Downturn? WEF, Davos 2023

In my opinion, World Economic Forum, Davos 2023, was centered around

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2 months ago

Unlocking the Potential of AI: Government and Major Institutions’ Role in Unleashing Trillions in Value by 2030

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to unlock significant value globally, with estimates ranging from $10 trillion to $15 trillion annually. This value can be unlocked in various ways, such as

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2 months ago

“Combating Diabetes-Related Amputations in India and globally: A Comprehensive Approach”

This article is based on our panel at Davos 2023. We have discussed the challenges and innovative solutions for preventing 1,000,000 amputations and alleviating the burden of diabetes.

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2 months ago

Unlocking the Potential of AI in Healthcare: How AI Can Improve Outcomes and Reduce Costs

As healthcare systems worldwide grapple with rising costs and an aging population, AI offers a powerful solution. By leveraging the power of AI, healthcare providers can improve patient outcomes and reduce costs while also increasing efficiency and driving innovation.

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2 months ago

The Role of the World Economic Forum in Promoting Sustainability, Healthcare Access, and Economic Recovery

The World Economic Forum (WEF) 2023 brought the top leaders and thinkers to discuss the most pressing global issues. It was my first time at World Economic Forum.

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2 months ago

DLD Tel Aviv Israel 2023 – The future of digital health

This article is based on my limited understanding of the panel organized at DLD, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2023. The healthcare industry is witnessing a significant transformation with the fusion of biology and technology.

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2 months ago

Transform or Be Left Behind: The Game-Changing Power of AI in Revolutionizing Your Casino Business

The gaming casino industry has transformed over the past two decades with the rise of online gaming and mobile technology. It has resulted in significant growth in revenue, with

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2 months ago

The Phenomenal Rise of Bangladesh: A Journey Through Time and Progress

Bangladesh, a South Asian nation of 200 million people, has undergone an astonishing transformation in the last 30-40 years. This land, once weighed down by genocide

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2 months ago

Our quest to redefine tomorrow & navigating the top 10 trends shaping our future

We are explorers, and we will find and conquer new frontiers – Sanjiv Goyal

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2 months ago

My Bangkok Alc/Bev Industry Experience and USA market – Ideas for USA Alc/Bev Retailers

So, there I was, wandering the bustling streets of Bangkok on my latest adventure, when my local partner pulled me into the world of the alcoholic beverage industry.

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2 months ago

Creating Unforgettable Experiences

Do we need Hyper-Personalization to enhance the consumer experience for Casinos, Bars, Restaurants, and other businesses to remain relevant?

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2 months ago

Dollar Devaluation, Inflation, and the New Contenders

The global economy has experienced numerous fluctuations in the past 50 years, with the US dollar significantly shaping the financial landscape. In recent times, dollar devaluation and inflation

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2 months ago

Connections – The Science Behind Your Emotions

Choice is essential to life, significantly impacting our well-being and creativity. The average person makes upward of 35000 choices per day.

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2 months ago

My Personal Story of Growth Through Diversity

As someone who has lived in four countries, done business in 14, and traveled to more than 40, I have witnessed firsthand the power of diversity in shaping societies and fostering growth. My journey has taken me to various corners of the world.

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2 months ago

New Era of Casino Gaming and Fraud Detection

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming various industries worldwide, and the casino gaming sector is no exception.

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2 months ago

The Power of Passion and Conviction

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Getting Started with Sales Personalization

The global population is expected to reach 10 billion by 2050, so we must find ways to feed more people without depleting our natural resources. We need to find a way to cut more trees.

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Food

The global population is expected to reach 10 billion by 2050, so we must find ways to feed more people without depleting our natural resources. We need to find a way to cut more trees.

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The Power of Passion and Conviction

Entrepreneurship is constantly changing, but passion and conviction remain essential to success. These powerful elements inspire innovation, fuel determination, and can transform ordinary individuals into extraordinary successes. Let’s take a captivating journey into entrepreneurship, drawing inspiration from the stories of visionary leaders, insightful authors, and Hollywood’s portrayal of entrepreneurial sagas. Buckle up and get ready to explore the profound importance of passion and conviction in entrepreneurship.

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