One of the biggest constraints to machine learning (ML) is the availability of data. What if machine-learning models could learn from private data, such as the personal data on your mobile device or data from collaboration partners’ servers, without sharing the actual data? Welcome to Federated Le...

Being a technopreneur founder is very exciting; decision-making is your own – live or die. Time taken to make decisions – instant. Power to open bank accounts – why not? However, as soon as you are a shareholder in community, and not only a founder by yourself, there are rules that come into p...

Western companies take note! When cinemas closed down, Huanxi Media Group turned a crisis into an opportunity. By Professor Mark J. Greeven and Professor Michael R. Wade.  An IMD article published in February 2020. Imagine that you have spent tens of millions of dollars to make a movie and you ...

The challenger bank trend first emerged in Europe and has progressively gained traction in all parts of the world. Today, challenger banks are growing significantly and attracting big money. According to FT Partners’ newly released The Rise of Challenger Banks: Are the Apps Taking Over? research p...

We often get asked whether a tech company can increase its chances of capital raising success through media exposure and a high profile, and even whether this can help to increase a company’s valuation? We believe that the answer to both is yes, based on our own experience and some research. Howev...

Global telecoms M&A is forecast to hit over $100 billion in 2019 according to industry experts, Statista. Consolidation is definitely a theme in places, particularly the fibre to the premises (FTTX) space which is highly capital intensive and very reliant on fast roll-out to get to consumers and...

An Employee Share Option Scheme can be an effective long-term incentive for employee loyalty and productivity to really turbo-charge your tech startup, but is it for you, and when is the best time to introduce it? Share options gives an employee the right to buy a certain number of shares in your ...

Investors have been putting billions of dollars into AI startups every year for several years now. But they’re focusing on the wrong type of play. The large number of AI startups they’ve been funding are building vertical solutions, often from scratch, putting themselves in competition with tech...

The technopreneur’s equity at exit will vary widely depending on the cash requirements of a particular kind of tech business, the capital efficiency of the business and the valuations that can be achieved. Snapchat co-founders Evan Spiegel and Robert Murphy owned a combined 37% of Snapchat bef...

Is it wise to analyse data or to train machine-learning models without the understanding, context and reality checking of domain expertise? And is it important to actually understand the relationships between the variables that are exposed through data analysis, in order to apply them? I attended a ...