The Entrepreneurs
A weekly deep dive into global business. Inspiring stories from startups to legacy brands in hospitality, design, fashion, and retail.
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Edition 145
We visit a family farm in northern Greece, talk future tech with Adrian David Cheok of the Mixed Reality Lab, explore the US craft-beer movement with Steve Hindy of Brooklyn Brewery, discuss branding with Jeanette Pritchard, look at watchmaking in Australia, and try to predict the future of Burberry with…
Edition 144
We untangle the invisible boundaries of global business with Erin Meyer, look at a free bottled water company in Australia, test a mobile polling company in Brooklyn, explore the explosion of the emerging market-consumer class with LeapFrog’s Dr Andrew Kuper, hit the waves with a Portuguese surfboard maker, and discuss…
Edition 143
We attend Hackers on the Runway in Paris to discover how luxury industries can adapt to the digital era, survey the start-up ecosystem of Bratislava, go offshore in San Francisco to explore the seasteading scene, meet the co-founder of England’s Lake District-based design company Herdy, and discuss cinema experiences with…
Edition 142
We explore how LA is rising in the tech world by playing to its entertainment-industry strengths, look at career reinvention with former Conran executive Roger Mavity, head to the Windy City for a singing lesson or two, discuss e-commerce with Carl Waldekranz of Tictail, and talk luxury in China with…
Edition 141
Education special: with reports from Università Bocconi, Oxford’s Saïd Business School, IE in Spain, and Booth in Chicago. Plus, we look at alternative programmes to the traditional MBA course.
Edition 140
Ain Bicycles in Cairo peddles its wares while we also talk robotics with Boris Sofman of Anki, head to Beirut for a property survey, see how The Food Assembly is transforming the modern farmers’ market and test out Hotel Momcierge, a family travel concierge in Istanbul.
Edition 139
A report from the C2MTL conference in Montréal, Ben Holmes of Index Ventures discusses its new early-stage start-up fund, we chat with Avin Rabheru of Housekeep.com, head to Nairobi to meet Elizabeth Rossiello of BitPesa, and the team at Winkreative discuss niche tech brands.
Edition 138
We take the pulse of Palma de Mallorca before the busy summer season, talk health tech with Peter Hames of Sleepio, meet Tristan Pollock of Storefront, review two London-based festivals for business creativity, Makegood and SohoCreate, test out the subscription-based BlankBox Coffee, and talk chocolate with the branding team at…
Edition 137
A visit to a bustling tech village in downtown Cairo, we enrol at Design Residency in Sydney, serial entrepreneur Doug Richard previews the upcoming Makegood festival, we meet the founder of Miso Tasty, take a crash course in networking, try on a bow tie at Le Noeud Papillon, and give…
Edition 136
We head to a women’s tech hub in Dakar, chat with the CEO of luggage company Tumi, visit a troupe of Spanish retirees breathing life into a historic railway line, profile Gaolhouse Denim, meet the CEO of Tradeshift, and catch up with the team behind Austrian startup Locca!
