Professor Coskun Kocabas joined the University of Manchester as a materials engineer in 2017. The university seemed like a perfect fit for his research interests—the applications of the novel material graphene. Graphene was first successfully isolated in 2004 by a…
Bill Gates was 21 when he and Paul Allen registered Microsoft. Steve Jobs was 22 when he and Steve Wozniak launched Apple. Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in his Harvard dormitory. The biographies of these tech billionaires who achieved great success…
CloudTrucks wants to use technology to help trucking entrepreneurs operate their business: The California-based startup sells business management software that helps owner-operators manage cash flow and costs, generate revenue, handle insurance, and more, and it just raised a $115 million…
Nearly five years ago, Huda Sarhang, 27, was sitting at one of the most iconic tea shops in Erbil, the Macho tea shop, sipping the store’s famous cardamom-infused tea. Staring at the classic istikaan glass which held her tea, she wondered whether…
China’s entrepreneur class is grappling with the worst economic slump in decades as the government’s zero Covid policy has shut down cities and kept would-be customers at home. Yet they can’t seem to agree on how loudly they should complain…
The means of marketing a business comes in many forms but with the number of times a day that prospective customers check their social media platforms, it is a good idea for small-business owners to at least explore using social…
Understanding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic through the lens of innovation, the innovative business leaders turned the crisis into an opportunity and emerged as an inspiration for all. The Pandemic Crisis has accelerated the pace of digitization. Today, customers…
Philip Fischer was a Michigan lawyer, entrepreneur and investor, but nothing mattered more than being a family man. Married for more than 60 years, friends and family say he was rarely seen without his wife and their three daughters. He took his girls all over, to sporting,…
