Women entrepreneurs: a global perspective
The gender disparity in the business world in general, and entrepreneurship specifically, has recently garnered renewed attention in light of the recent Global Entrepreneurship Week and Women’s Enterprise Day. The UK’s unofficial...
Comparing entrepreneurship in Europe and in the US
I come from in Austria, a small country in Central Europe, which is also the birthplace of Dietrich Mateschitz, the founder of Red Bull. In 1987, he got together with a businessman from Thailand and introduced the now ubiquitous...
Automation is now
Many successful businesses today optimize the mix of humans, robots, and algorithms. Robots have been around for years in industrial uses. More recently, robots have found new uses solving real-world problems…creating great...
Is Algeria ready for entrepreneurship?
Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to go to Algeria to assess the state of entrepreneurship there as well as make recommendations as to what to do to improve the country’s startup and innovation ecosystem. I was offered this...