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I’ve spent many years talking about or being involved in entrepreneurship. I started a UK-based fashion business 8 years ago, and a German-based social business 4 years ago. The former failed badly while the latter is stable as of today.

Tired of living pay-check to pay-check, I now advise start-ups, professionally. In a devastated, post-Corona economy, the number one question I get these days is one form or another of “should I stay or should I go”?

Entrepreneurs tend to believe that all the stars in the sky need to be aligned perfectly for their start-ups to succeed. Because of…

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The Uberisation of sex is here

Like many other young women throughout the world, Paris native Hélène, aka EnMarcheNoire…

Is technology closing the gender divide or making it worse? Are we going towards a utopia or a dystopia? As new technologies such as IoT and Machine Learning become more sophisticated and more embedded in daily life, the timeline for ensuring they are inclusive is shortening. Yet, such questions mask the fact that we all very much have a role to play in this decision, should we be given a chance to get a say.

As Amazon, Uber, Google, and countless others have shown, too many blind-spots in the technological world are shaking the foundations upon which Western societies are…

Anyone with a wet finger in the air has by now heard that Google is facing an identity crisis because of its links to the American military. To crudely summarise, Google chose not to renew its “Project Maven” contract to provide artificial intelligence (A.I) capabilities to the U.S. Department of Defense after employee dissent reached a boiling point.

This is an issue for Google, as the “Do No Evil” company is currently in an arm-wrestling match with Amazon and Microsoft for some juicy Cloud and A.I government contracts worth around $10B. Rejecting such work would deprive Google of a potentially…

It would be easy to argue that Spotify is on its way to industry hegemony. With 286M users, 124M of whom are premium subscribers, the company made $7.3bn in 2019, against $5bn in 2017, and $2bn in 2015.

Such growth, to me, is indistinguishable from magic.

Yet, Spotify is still operating at a loss, in part due to absolutely razor-thin margins (ie: non-existent). That’s because a very high percentage of its revenues are paid back to the artists, meaning the company has always operated at a loss as it concentrates on break-neck growth. And therein lies the issue: 1 fan…

The pandemic (you know the one) has disrupted stores and restaurants in a way no one could have expected at the start of 2020. A health scare, mass unemployment, e-commerce, Amazon competition, ballooning debt… we didn’t start the fire, it was always burning… but now there are ambers everywhere and we’ve got to get to work to save the good china.

In order to save shops and restaurants from the ongoing bloodbath, dozens of solutions providers have gone into overdrive all over the world. They promise to help set up payments, loyalty programs, hardware, analytics, e-commerce… anything to keep stores…

When trying to predict the future of AI, a few rules must be abided by, lest one be considered “frothy around the mouth”, as I was once described by a technologically-challenged executive in his 60s (compliment taken). Below are a few principles to consider when trying to predict the future of AI in any way, shape, or form.

1. We overestimate the effect of Artificial Intelligence in the short run

The first part of Amara’s law (echoed by Bill Gates) is the most relevant in the digital age as we’re won’t to abandon ourselves to flashy headlines and clickbait, especially when it comes to AI-induced automation.

Indeed, there has been a slew…