What is more beautiful on Earth than the smell and the touch of a new book? This is the classic argument of every book-addicted person that cannot stand those modern readers with their e-books. Though, e-books do have a lot of advantages! I'll name ten in the episode and explain why in many situations the physical book is so much more unpractical. 

Source:  https://owlcation.com/humanities/10-Reasons-Why-eBooks-are-Better-than-Print-Books 

YOLO. TGIF. TYL. ASAP. - This is only one driving force of changements we see in our current use of language that has been caused by the Internet. I am mentioning four of them today, so tune in and find out what is impacting the established languages today. 

Source:  https://www.oxford-royale.co.uk/articles/4-ways-internet-english-language.html 

This is a plea for open markets without protectionism. I think it is crucial to remind people of what open markets have brought to our society, to our economy and life standard as a whole. It's not only the business professionals and company owners that profit from free trade - it's every "basic employee", too. Why? How? Every of these questions gets answered in this episode...

Source:  http://www.oecd.org/trade/understanding-the-global-trading-system/why-open-markets-matter/ 

Today we're getting a bit more into the historical part of our fututure - and no, that's not paradoxical at all. Because in order to figure out what innovation could play a big role in the future of trade we need to look at what has changed the global systems within the last years. I'll name three concrete innovations that have triggered changes like these - but no worries, I'll also mention one innovation that also has the potential to impact the industry in the future...

Source:  https://www.tradefinanceglobal.com/posts/3-innovations-totally-transformed-logistics-international-trade/ 

Emerging markets is a key word that can be dropped in any conversation in order to get attention: everyone would like to know what markets will flourish within the next years so that investments could be allocated with a little bit more security behind the allocation. But emerging markets are nothing secure per definition - most of the time we talk about countries with a highly volatile economy here and the potential for economic growth is unquestionably high. But the thing about this potential is that it has to be used - if politics are bad and do not use a country's good potentials, you can make the most beautiful predicitions in the world: they won't become reality. However, I'd like to look at the ten most impactful emerging markets that are expected to increase global GDP by the networth of Japan's economy today by the year of 2025.

Source: https://www.businessinsider.de/the-10-emerging-markets-of-the-future-2016-7?op=1

Robert Rebholz ist Gründer des Unternehmens Optilyz, welches sich auf postalisches Direktmarketing spezialisiert hat. Im Interview reden wir über Unternehmertum, über die Geschichte von Robert und wie sich sein Startup über die Jahre entwickelte und schließlich auch über die Zukunft der Werbung. Gerne könnt ihr Robert einfach anschreiben, wenn ihr Fragen zu ihm, zu seinem Unternehmen oder generell zum Thema habt:

Roberts LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robrebholz/?originalSubdomain=de

Und hier die Website von Optilyz - schaut auch hier unbedingt mal vorbei:

https://www.optilyz.com/de

Ich danke Robert ganz herzlich für das Gespräch, hat sehr viel Spaß gemacht und ich glaube alle konnten daraus einiges mitnehmen! :)

Investing is something beautiful - the increasment of money without you having to do something about it. Well, it's not that easy, actually, but almost. Though, many people loose a lot of money on the stock market or wherever they are investing their money. Why is that so? Because they are making certain mistakes that have to be avoided in every case you want to invest. They are so common that I did an episode on them today - so that your financial future is not dependent on luck but on rational thinking!

Sources:

https://www.businessinsider.com/common-investing-mistakes-2014-10?IR=T

There are five distinct megatrends that are shaping the way we are investing and are impacting the landscape of ETFs out there. Find out what these five are and what I think about them. I have related to an interview of Morningstar with a guy of BlackRock, so some of his evaluations might be a bit biased - but I tried to have a differantiate perspective on each of the trends and its impact on investments.

Source (you can also hear the entire interview here):

http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/news/170558/the-5-megatrends-shaping-the-future-of-investing.aspx

FinTech - Financial Technology - will change the way we transfer money, invest, buy and sell. This is why today, I am presenting you the five best startups in the field of FinTech of 2018/2019. You can find the links to each of them below.

http://www.alpaca.ai/

https://www.transfergo.com/en/

https://www.checkbox.ai/

https://www.inamo.com/

https://www.possiblefinance.com/

An overall overview of the 60 best startups of last year:

https://www.cloudways.com/blog/best-startups-watch-out/#fintech

We have talked about cryptocurrencies and financial transactions a lot within the last days - but what about the location where everything is carried out? What about the bank branch itsself, where people go to in order to get help with something or in order to meet a consultant? Of course, the looking of such a bank branch will evolve a lot the next few years. Today I draw a picture of how the entire service process will look like in the near future.

Source: https://www.bain.com/insights/reimagining-the-digital-branch-of-the-future-lets-get-practical/