Category: Mark Kalin

Business

10 Facts about Startups

1) #Mentored startups grow 3.5x faster and raise 7x more money. 2) Over 70% of startup #founders eventually realize that their intellectual property is not a competitive advantage. 3)

Business

Asia is changing the world

Asia has outpaced all other regions in terms of #payments revenue growth over the past several years. It is also the largest contributor to #global payments revenue,

Business

Singles day hits new records in 2020

Alibaba Group had over $74.1 billion in sales from 1st till 11th of November, an increase of 26% compared to the same timeframe in 2019.

Business

The multi-billion-dollar console gaming market

There are over 2.7 billion #gamers worldwide. The gaming industry is undergoing a transformation. Billions of dollars are pouring in on multiple fronts, including in mobile, PC,

Leadership

What makes a great leader?

This question is a focus of my research as an organizational scientist, executive coach, and leadership development consultant. Looking for answers, I recently completed the

Innovation

Apple’s secret to innovation

How is Apple capable of such innovation? What is the hidden recipe? A lot of research has gone into, how is Apple actually organized and what is

Innovation

10 Job Skills of Tomorrow

What are the 10 job skills of tomorrow? What do we need to learn? According to World Economic Forum‘s Future of Jobs Report: – 50%

Business

Billionaire’s Wealth

Financial Times prepared a research, that shows billionaire wealth grow by sector. It is interesting to see how much the wealth of billionaires has increased.

Business

World’s Best Employers

Here is the list of top 25 employers. Samsung Electronics is leading the way, followed by Amazon and IBM. We can see that three out

Mark Kalin

Unicorns

Hurun Research Institute found 586 unicorns in the world, based in 29 countries and 145 cities. On average, they are 9 years old, with 80%

Innovation

Welcome to the startup world.

9 out of 10 startups fail (source: Startup Genome – the 2019 report claims 11 out of 12 fail). 7.5 out of 10 venture-backed startups fail (source: Shikhar Ghosh). 2

Innovation

The Trillion Dollar Club

There are 4 companies that are present in the trillion dollar club. The elite of elite, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet (the parent company of