#23 The invisibility cloak made with fasiontech by Saif Siddiqui, ISHU
Samira Stalks: Startups | Business Education | Innovation | Impact
Release Date: 09/04/2017
Shine: self-care rituals for all of us with Marah Lidey And Naomi Hirabayashi
Samira Stalks: Startups | Business Education | Innovation | Impact
Shine is a self-care app for millennial women - the largest growing share of the workforce. Shine operates in the wellness space in over 165 countries. Leveraging the power of text to reach people with a 98% open rate, Naomi and March found a way to recreate the feeling of a hand on your shoulder every morning.
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#35 Croissant: the key to unlock a global coworking space with Nisha Garigarn
Samira Stalks: Startups | Business Education | Innovation | Impact
“Align yourself with marketing efforts that can be repeated and if you see something that's working, press that button as fast as possible.”
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#34 Exit West: Migrants and magical doors with author, Mohsin Hamid
Samira Stalks: Startups | Business Education | Innovation | Impact
“The feeling of being a migrant is a universal one” explains Mohsin Hamid, the award-winning novelist of Exit West and The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
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#33 The Good Immigrant: a document for what it means to be a person of colour. Nikesh Shukla
Samira Stalks: Startups | Business Education | Innovation | Impact
“I know the power of finding a book that changes someone’s life.”
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#32 x.ai: bring your own bot! Amy the personal assistant powered by artificial intelligence, Dennis Mortensen
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“Artificial intelligence will move software from being passive to active, the software will be expected to make decisions on our behalf.”
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#31 Streetbees, capturing real life moments from real people to power new products with Tugce Bulut
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“For one client, we improved the prediction power from 23%, worse than chance, to 86% confidence on what people were going to eat for dinner.”
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#30 citizenM, the new boutique hotel on the block for the modern mobile traveller with Noreen Chadha
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Against the backdrop of Airbnb, citizenM has come to the fore as a boutique hotel for the modern mobile citizen. Born out of the frustration of the fashion traveller, this startup hotel deploys user centered design to solve for modern luxury. 12 hotels later, 40% repeat business and artwork such as Andy Warhol casually placed around the sites, citizenM is a fresh burst in the hotel industry.
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#29 The only social university for lifelong learning with Ivy, Beri Meric
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“With education, the people you learn from aren’t just your teachers, it’s your peers as well.”
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#28 Building a media empire out of a daily email newsletter, The Hustle with Sam Parr
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Firing off an irreverent note to attract non-techies to an event, Sam Parr had never envisaged he would resurrect email to start a media company - The Hustle - a daily email newsletter. A young gun set to be the next media mogul uncovers bumping into Tim Ferriss walking his dog and writing amazon romance novels to journey through The Hustle’s own hustle. Today, The Hustle has over 0.5m subscribers, a cash positive balance fuelled by advertising and over $1m in funding.
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#27 The challenger bank for the smartphone generation with Monzo, Tom Blomfield
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“Applying the principles of the consumer internet and smartphone world to our personal finances.”
info_outlineFusing fashion and technology together, Saif has invented the closest thing to an invisibility cloak. Listen to the story of the scarf with a magical symmetrical pattern. In a world of eroding privacy, it has gone down a treat with celebrities such as JAYZ, Cameron Diaz and Jaden Smith. Put the scarf on - take a flash picture - POOF! - the face disappears. Saif is now turning his hand to deploy fashiontech to power clothes with solar energy in the developing world.
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