Throwback to 2019 where we did a SW Reunion for all the ex-participants of SWs from the past years!For the past 10+ years, I have been participating and running hackathons. Won a few of them and it was really rewarding. Today we go a little deeper and talk about WHY. Why I do what I do. Digging deep from my own experiences of participating, winning and organising hackathons, as we march closer towards the largest Startup Weekend Global happening this weekend. This is a 5-part series on the be...

Throwback to 2019 where we did a SW Reunion for all the ex-participants of SWs from the past years!For the past 10+ years, I have been participating and running hackathons. Won a few of them and it was really rewarding. Today we go a little deeper and talk about WHY. Why I do what I do. Digging deep from my own experiences of participating, winning and organising hackathons, as we march closer towards the largest Startup Weekend Global happening this weekend. This is a 5-part series on the be...

Elon Musk just announced a new Giga factory in Mexico!Elon strikes again. This time, right at the heart of the consumers who loved and adored his products. Apparently, Tesla slashed its car prices again. It aims to be more competitive with other rising brands and be more appealing to new adopters of EV. Or put in another way, he overdelivered. He finally made more cars than was demanded. Success sure has a bitter way of thanking you. So in order to get rid of excess inventory, slashing prices...

Elon Musk just announced a new Giga factory in Mexico!Elon strikes again. This time, right at the heart of the consumers who loved and adored his products. Apparently, Tesla slashed its car prices again. It aims to be more competitive with other rising brands and be more appealing to new adopters of EV. Or put in another way, he overdelivered. He finally made more cars than was demanded. Success sure has a bitter way of thanking you. So in order to get rid of excess inventory, slashing prices...

Kim K spoke at Harvard and people got jelly.People are slamming Kim Kardashian for boasting about her lecture at Harvard Business School. Not sure why but 30,000 people liked her Tweet. Or more like castigating HBS for allowing Kim to guest lecture at the hallowed grounds of academic royalty. “Kardashian visited HBS in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Friday with Skims co-founder Jens Grede to talk to students about the shapewear company for nearly two hours as a part of a direct-to-consumer semin...

Kim K spoke at Harvard and people got jelly.People are slamming Kim Kardashian for boasting about her lecture at Harvard Business School. Not sure why but 30,000 people liked her Tweet. Or more like castigating HBS for allowing Kim to guest lecture at the hallowed grounds of academic royalty. “Kardashian visited HBS in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Friday with Skims co-founder Jens Grede to talk to students about the shapewear company for nearly two hours as a part of a direct-to-consumer semin...

Congrats to the Grand Champions of Startup Weekend Global — Entropy Labs!A few key takeaways reflecting on almost 1 year of building, preparing, executing and concluding Startup Weekend Global. Always a bittersweet moment to end a SW as big as this. So much blood, sweat and tears has gone into the production of this world-class event. Hundreds of hours and weekends of the volunteers spent pouring into the prep work and ensuring that things went smoothly. For that one weekend, the world truly ...

Congrats to the Grand Champions of Startup Weekend Global — Entropy Labs!A few key takeaways reflecting on almost 1 year of building, preparing, executing and concluding Startup Weekend Global. Always a bittersweet moment to end a SW as big as this. So much blood, sweat and tears has gone into the production of this world-class event. Hundreds of hours and weekends of the volunteers spent pouring into the prep work and ensuring that things went smoothly. For that one weekend, the world truly ...

Heather Rhiannon Morgan, also known as Razzlekhan, took the “try everything once” mantra too far. She has a rap song, she was a comedian, a YouTuber, an influencer, an entrepreneur, a social engineer and now, a suspected money launderer and white-collar criminal.Oh my, the crypto gods really doesn’t want me to stop writing about crypto it seems. They keep giving me juicy news and incredulous stories to write and reflect about. I’m about to check in to Crypto Rehab soon. This one really fires ...

Heather Rhiannon Morgan, also known as Razzlekhan, took the “try everything once” mantra too far. She has a rap song, she was a comedian, a YouTuber, an influencer, an entrepreneur, a social engineer and now, a suspected money launderer and white-collar criminal.Oh my, the crypto gods really doesn’t want me to stop writing about crypto it seems. They keep giving me juicy news and incredulous stories to write and reflect about. I’m about to check in to Crypto Rehab soon. This one really fires ...

Stay tuned for the final pitches of Startup Weekend Global on Sat!Most people join hackathons but don’t know how to win them. Here’s some tips and steps to win any hackathon. I call it “hacking the hackathon”. Interested? Let’s dive in. Today we talk about some of the best tips from my own experiences participating, winning and organising hackathons, as we march closer towards the largest Startup Weekend Global happening this weekend. This is a 5-part series on the behind-the-scenes of Startu...

Stay tuned for the final pitches of Startup Weekend Global on Sat!Most people join hackathons but don’t know how to win them. Here’s some tips and steps to win any hackathon. I call it “hacking the hackathon”. Interested? Let’s dive in. Today we talk about some of the best tips from my own experiences participating, winning and organising hackathons, as we march closer towards the largest Startup Weekend Global happening this weekend. This is a 5-part series on the behind-the-scenes of Startu...

The journey to crypto’s promised land isn’t quite as what was promised.Let me rant something real quick. The following crypto companies were at one point collectively worth half a Trillion Dollars: Terra/Luna 3AC Voyager Celsius FTX Genesis Valuation meant money; money meant people had lots of faith in the system. Then the collapse of Luna triggered a chain reaction and everyone else melted down like ice cubes on a hot pan.A market crash is never a good thing, but it may help cleanse the syst...

The journey to crypto’s promised land isn’t quite as what was promised.Let me rant something real quick. The following crypto companies were at one point collectively worth half a Trillion Dollars: Terra/Luna 3AC Voyager Celsius FTX Genesis Valuation meant money; money meant people had lots of faith in the system. Then the collapse of Luna triggered a chain reaction and everyone else melted down like ice cubes on a hot pan.A market crash is never a good thing, but it may help cleanse the syst...

Elon does Elon things, and while it may seem weird to many, he must have his reasons…I think?Don’t feel too sad for Twitter’s executives when they leave after Elon Musk took over. “Former chief executive Parag Agrawal will receive $57.4 million, former chief financial officer Ned Segal gets $44.5 million, and former head of legal policy, trust and safety Vijaya Gadde will receive $20 million, Equilar said, citing U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings.” That is nearly $120M in total ...

Elon does Elon things, and while it may seem weird to many, he must have his reasons…I think?Don’t feel too sad for Twitter’s executives when they leave after Elon Musk took over. “Former chief executive Parag Agrawal will receive $57.4 million, former chief financial officer Ned Segal gets $44.5 million, and former head of legal policy, trust and safety Vijaya Gadde will receive $20 million, Equilar said, citing U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings.” That is nearly $120M in total ...

Ye, for better or worse, has become an icon in the fashion and music industry over the decade.Kanye west. Ye. Yeezys. It used to mean something. Fans would line up for days to catch his drops. The media would blow up talking about Ye. Wherever he goes, controversy and attention follows. And to be frank, Ye made it work for his brand and following. He built a very successful and profitable brand empire from his attitude, style and demeanor. People don’t follow you just because you are cool. Th...

Ye, for better or worse, has become an icon in the fashion and music industry over the decade.Kanye west. Ye. Yeezys. It used to mean something. Fans would line up for days to catch his drops. The media would blow up talking about Ye. Wherever he goes, controversy and attention follows. And to be frank, Ye made it work for his brand and following. He built a very successful and profitable brand empire from his attitude, style and demeanor. People don’t follow you just because you are cool. Th...

Kevin Rose, the founder of the Moonbirds NFT project, was phished for millions.One of the NFT OG, a true-blue crypto Whale, a father figure of NFTs and quite a colorful character on crypto Twitter, Kevin Rose, just got phished for millions. Or around 684 ETH ($1.09M) worth of NFTs. Not a joke. He lost a huge bunch of his NFTs when he accidentally signed a malicious signature “that allowed the exploiter to transfer over a large number of tokens”. It was a relatively simple but brutal phishing ...

Kevin Rose, the founder of the Moonbirds NFT project, was phished for millions.One of the NFT OG, a true-blue crypto Whale, a father figure of NFTs and quite a colorful character on crypto Twitter, Kevin Rose, just got phished for millions. Or around 684 ETH ($1.09M) worth of NFTs. Not a joke. He lost a huge bunch of his NFTs when he accidentally signed a malicious signature “that allowed the exploiter to transfer over a large number of tokens”. It was a relatively simple but brutal phishing ...

Startup Weekend Global Finals is coming real soon!Ideas. The world is filled with ideas. But really, what do we do with them? Today we talk about some of best ideas from past Startup Weekends as we march closer towards the largest Startup Weekend Global happening this weekend. This is a 5-part series on the behind-the-scenes of Startup Weekend Global and what it takes to run a hackathon that has morphed into a global entrepreneurship juggernaut. Part 3: Ideas Startup Weekend itself was a simp...

Startup Weekend Global Finals is coming real soon!Ideas. The world is filled with ideas. But really, what do we do with them? Today we talk about some of best ideas from past Startup Weekends as we march closer towards the largest Startup Weekend Global happening this weekend. This is a 5-part series on the behind-the-scenes of Startup Weekend Global and what it takes to run a hackathon that has morphed into a global entrepreneurship juggernaut. Part 3: Ideas Startup Weekend itself was a simp...

Who knows, maybe you could be talking to a Batman chatbot to do your bidding.Arms race, Space race, EV race and now, Chatbot race. We had a few major “races” in technology over the century. There was the Space race that pushed countries to see who could achieve superior spaceflight capabilities and send a man to the moon first. There was the arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to see who could have a larger nuclear stockpile. There was the Le Mans where Ferrari and Ford went to wa...

Who knows, maybe you could be talking to a Batman chatbot to do your bidding.Arms race, Space race, EV race and now, Chatbot race. We had a few major “races” in technology over the century. There was the Space race that pushed countries to see who could achieve superior spaceflight capabilities and send a man to the moon first. There was the arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to see who could have a larger nuclear stockpile. There was the Le Mans where Ferrari and Ford went to wa...