Weekly News Digest (22 Nov, 2019)

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Kids creating the future bank | Chris Skinner | TEDxAthens

Nowadays, Gen Y millennials and Gen Z teenagers, are reinventing finance with code. What world of finance do they want, and how will the bankers of old react? Let’s find out in the video form the TEDx event “Kids creating the future bank | Chris Skinner | TEDxAthens”, where the speaker, Chris Skinner is known as “one of the most authoritative voices on Fintech” the most influential person in technology will answer these questions.

Is Technology Destroying our memory?

Got a question? Google it. Forgotten a name? Reach for your smartphone. As we are deluged with easy-access information, our brains seem to be getting weaker, leaving us with the attention span of, well, a goldfish. And it's not just the adults who should be worried - there's now growing concern about how the internet and phones are affecting our kids' memories too. Check out “Is Technology Destroying our memory?” by Radhika Sanghani for more information.

The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship

Successful entrepreneurs achieve hero status in our culture while still a lot of them fighting with secret demons: Before they made it big, they struggled through moments of anxiety when it seemed everything might crumble. No one said that building a company is easy. But it’s time, to be honest about how brutal it really is - and the price so many founders secretly pay. The article “The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship” by Jessica Bruder elaborates on this subject in detail so check it out.

VC Ben Horowitz on WeWork, Uber and one cultural value his employees can’t break

Ben Horowitz, the co-founder of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, says creating a culture in the company was a missing part of his education. So, in his new book “What You Do Is Who You Are, he does his best to fill that gap for other CEOs, using his own experience. Meanwhile, his recent interview in “VC Ben Horowitz on WeWork, Uber and one cultural value his employees can’t break” by Connie Loizos reveals some of the biggest cultural blow-ups in the startup industry.

Bootstrapping a profitable SaaS Business

An ebook “Bootstrapping a profitable SaaS Business” by Tyler Tringas will be interesting for everyone who is eager to build a micro-SaaS business. It is a software as a service business owned and operated by one person or a small team. They are the lifestyle business of the future. This is an ongoing project that collects all the practical experience of the author. So, check it out for more information.

We hope that the articles we mentioned were useful and will have a beneficial influence on the development of your business. Stay tuned and see you next week!