06 5 / 2013
Kareem: 20 Things I Wish I Would Have Known When I Was 30
When I was thirty, I was living my dream. I’d already accomplished most of what I’d set out to achieve professionally: leading scorer in the NBA, leading rebounder, leading blocker, Most Valuable Player, All-Star. But success can be as blin…
04 1 / 2013
For those who are sick and tired of apple’s stupid alarm clock interface. This is super intuitive and cool.
03 1 / 2013
"Start with a great product and everything flows from that. You start by making something you like, that you would go to see, that you would buy and see what happens. I’ve never made something because other people would like it. I don’t know how to do that. That seems like a waste of your life."
(Source: fastcocreate.com)
05 12 / 2012
"Networks that make engagement on the go easy—especially visual platforms like Instagram—are at a significant advantage (Instagram, in fact, already has more mobile users than Twitter)."
05 12 / 2012
Incentivizing innovation vs. Bank charges vs. A country’s fortune
How can you expect a country to grow with innovation and entrepreneurship while the banking systems is blocking both of them?
Forget about innovation, answer this: How can a country keep all money related transactions by the books and within the system, by letting the banks charge for every movement you make within a bank at ridiculous rates?
If you let the banks charge for each and every transaction you make within a bank like
- depositing money to your bank account,
- withdrawing money from your account,
- transferring money,
- making a payment,
and when these charges are not small, people would obviously will try to find ways to avoid using these channels, thus the charges.
Do you think that it is smart to encourage people to use cash? Can you follow cash transactions?
Time to wake up. My experience is telling me that, in Central Europe, mainly Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, banks are sucking the blood of any attempts on innovation and entrepreneurship and governments are turning their back to this. Or even better, increasing taxes on the banking system, giving banks another chance to charge more to their customers.
