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 94
A look at the entrepreneurs of Kolomna, near Moscow, who hope traditional sweetmeats will regenerate their city. Plus, we visit Auckland to speak with the man behind a two-decade old alternative currency and check out a Danish school that’s taking business education to new heights.
Edition 93
We head to Vanuatu for a tour of the sandalwood industry, visit a Spanish pop-up showcasing local manufacturing, test a new electric bicycle in Milan, and chat with the founder of cosmetics retailer Space NK.
Edition 92
We head to the San Gabriel Valley in California – home to the largest Asian-style night market in the US, find out why Finns are big spenders on ice cream, and learn how one entrepreneur plans to change the way concert tickets are sold online.
Edition 91
A visit to the kiosks of the Middle East where people buy the small necessities of life, we visit a Munich startup trying to develop smarter heating, meet the man who designed a shoe unlike anything in the industry, and go behind the scenes at one of the world’s most…
Edition 90
We visit a wine importer in a land of tough alcohol laws: Finland. Plus, we meet the minds behind Cad & the Dandy tailors on London’s Savile Row, ask Brazilian entrepreneur Cristiana Arcangeli why collagen candy is good for your health, and chat with fashion designer Massimo Alba in Milan.
Edition 89
We investigate how Turkey’s protest movement has fostered an unusual environment of entrepreneurship, head to Cannes to meet up with the CEO of Barbarian Group, get management tips from the head of M&C Saatchi, ask America’s most successful yoghurt entrepreneur about his journey to the top, and rebrand one of…
Edition 88
We head to Madrid to see how Spanish booksellers are innovating to survive, test out a new service that lets you share the costs of owning your dream car, learn how a Vancouver-based meat market is delivering good food with a generous portion of social justice, and ask if coffee…
Edition 87
We’re in Tel Aviv to test a new app that’s frothing up the city’s café scene, we also visit Berlin’s best and brightest startup conference, get management tips from Vertu’s Perry Oosting, and give the concept of scarcity a branding overhaul with our friends at Winkreative.
Edition 86
A crowd-funding platform for start-ups in Dresden, we meet an entrepreneur who hopes you’ll never take another train or plane again, visit a New York company using design and hospitality to create an ideal environment for creative businesses, and discover how a Swedish start-up with a single salesperson became an…
Edition 85
We meet the business minds behind the games you love, from the men behind Frogmind in Helsinki and a legendary cricket ball maker in Australia to chess-boxing in London and the largest western-run independent games studio in Shanghai.
