The Entrepreneurs

We meet Jake Levine of Electric Objects, talk private-education consulting with Dr Kat Cohen of IvyWise, Daniel Becerra of BuffaloGrid explains his solar-charging hub solution, we chat with Dr Mark Ratnarajah of FindMeHealth.com, Hong Kong-based jeweller Nathalie Melville discusses the fair-trade jewellery scene, and we explore New York’s bike-sharing scheme with the branding team at Winkreative.

We catch fish for San Francisco restaurants with Water2Table, head to Lebanon to see how the country is attracting tourism, discuss junior recruiting with Eiso Kant of Tyba, meet Brian Harrison of Swoon Editions, discover how coffee can be made into biofuel with Arthur Kay of Bio-Bean, and discuss the branding of the Ford Mustang with the team at Winkreative.

We head to rural Australia to meet the man making some of the best bluegrass mandolins money can buy, look at the art of designing the perfect workplace and the entrepreneurship of architects, meet the mind behind crowd-funded wine company NakedWines, get a tutorial in data analytics, and discuss betting shops and casinos with the branding team at Winkreative.

We visit a family farm in northern Greece, talk future tech with Adrian David Cheok of the Mixed Reality Lab, explore the US craft-beer movement with Steve Hindy of Brooklyn Brewery, discuss branding with Jeanette Pritchard, look at watchmaking in Australia, and try to predict the future of Burberry with the team at Winkreative.

We untangle the invisible boundaries of global business with Erin Meyer, look at a free bottled water company in Australia, test a mobile polling company in Brooklyn, explore the explosion of the emerging market-consumer class with LeapFrog’s Dr Andrew Kuper, hit the waves with a Portuguese surfboard maker, and discuss the branding of Penguin Random House with the team at Winkreative.

We attend Hackers on the Runway in Paris to discover how luxury industries can adapt to the digital era, survey the start-up ecosystem of Bratislava, go offshore in San Francisco to explore the seasteading scene, meet the co-founder of England’s Lake District-based design company Herdy, and discuss cinema experiences with the branding team at Winkreative.

We explore how LA is rising in the tech world by playing to its entertainment-industry strengths, look at career reinvention with former Conran executive Roger Mavity, head to the Windy City for a singing lesson or two, discuss e-commerce with Carl Waldekranz of Tictail, and talk luxury in China with Scott Galloway of L2.

Education special: with reports from Università Bocconi, Oxford’s Saïd Business School, IE in Spain, and Booth in Chicago. Plus, we look at alternative programmes to the traditional MBA course.

Ain Bicycles in Cairo peddles its wares while we also talk robotics with Boris Sofman of Anki, head to Beirut for a property survey, see how The Food Assembly is transforming the modern farmers’ market and test out Hotel Momcierge, a family travel concierge in Istanbul.

A report from the C2MTL conference in Montréal, Ben Holmes of Index Ventures discusses its new early-stage start-up fund, we chat with Avin Rabheru of Housekeep.com, head to Nairobi to meet Elizabeth Rossiello of BitPesa, and the team at Winkreative discuss niche tech brands.