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Mel

How do you scale a startup to over $300 million in value ...

Genie 04 04 Katheleen Tillman

How do you scale a startup to over $300 million in value in 3 years? That’s what 27 year old Melanie Perkins has done with her Australian startup, canva.com. The[...]

Forest

When you get inspired, do you take action?

Genie 04 04 Katheleen Tillman

When you get inspired, do you take action? When Steve Jobs gave his famous 2005 Stanford Commencement Speech, Forrest Li was a student in the audience. Inspired, he decided to[...]

Moniq

Good luck to Monique and all the inspiring athletes compe...

Genie 04 04 Katheleen Tillman

Two years ago, 20 year old Australian student Monique Murphy fell from a 5th floor balcony at a University party in a fall that left her in a coma: Monique[...]

Edi

It doesn’t take nine ‘no’s’ to get to a ‘yes’

Genie 04 04 Katheleen Tillman

It doesn’t take nine ‘no’s’ to get to a ‘yes’: If you’ve ever done any sales training, the old adage goes that the ratio of ‘no’s’ to ‘yes’s’ is 9[...]

Acedventp

Academics v/s Entrepreneurship

Genie 04 04 Katheleen Tillman

I worked hard through school and graduated from University of Cambridge, and then I had to spend 10 years unlearning everything I had learned before I could succeed as an[...]

Momofuku

If you ever feel like it’s taking too long to achieve suc...

Genie 04 04 Katheleen Tillman

If you ever feel like it’s taking too long to achieve success, just think “Momofuku”. One of Japan’s most famous entrepreneurs, Momofuku Ando, kept persevering despite failure and bankruptcy until[...]

Arthur

How have we achieved such an astronomical, exponential pr...

Genie 04 04 Katheleen Tillman

After 5,500 years of recorded human history, with no evidence of other earth-like planets in the Universe, we have gone from discovering the first near-Earth-size planet a year ago, to[...]

Conor

What do you do when you have a reputation for winning, an...

Genie 04 04 Katheleen Tillman

What do you do when you have a reputation for winning, and then you lose? You come back stronger. Conor “Notorious” McGregor suffered his first UFC loss to Nate Diaz[...]

Uber1

How do you sell a company you started 3 months earlier fo...

Genie 04 04 Katheleen Tillman

How do you sell a company you started 3 months earlier for $680 million? That’s what Anthony Levandowski just did. He started his company, Otto, in May, and sold it[...]

Markz

Did you know there are tens of thousands of versions of F...

Genie 04 04 Katheleen Tillman

Which version of Facebook are you using? Did you know there are tens of thousands of versions of Facebook running at any one time – and you’re using just one[...]