The Entrepreneurs

We take the pulse of Palma de Mallorca before the busy summer season, talk health tech with Peter Hames of Sleepio, meet Tristan Pollock of Storefront, review two London-based festivals for business creativity, Makegood and SohoCreate, test out the subscription-based BlankBox Coffee, and talk chocolate with the branding team at Winkreative.

A visit to a bustling tech village in downtown Cairo, we enrol at Design Residency in Sydney, serial entrepreneur Doug Richard previews the upcoming Makegood festival, we meet the founder of Miso Tasty, take a crash course in networking, try on a bow tie at Le Noeud Papillon, and give budget airlines a branding overhaul with the Winkreative team.

We head to a women’s tech hub in Dakar, chat with the CEO of luggage company Tumi, visit a troupe of Spanish retirees breathing life into a historic railway line, profile Gaolhouse Denim, meet the CEO of Tradeshift, and catch up with the team behind Austrian startup Locca!

We chat with the new CEO of LUXE City Guides, visit the team behind Australia’s Driza-Bone, discuss PayPal’s new idenitity with Yves Béhar, talk mobile ads with the founder of BuzzCity, meet a former record-industry exec turned record-shop owner, and give San Francisco’s BART train system a branding overhaul.

We meet the founder of travel start-up My Plus One, head to Helsinki to test out fitness service HeiaHeia, explore entrepreneurship in Haiti with De La Sol, check in to the Wanaka Homestead on New Zealand’s South Island, talk cosmetics in Barcelona, meet the team behind Collective Arts Brewing, and discuss TV chefs with our friends at Winkreative.

We explore how internet censorship in Turkey is affecting the country’s startup scene, visit the team behind Viennese beer brand Nixe, Scott Anthony of Innosight explains the perilous first mile of entrepreneurship, Peter Arvai of Prezi discusses the future of presentations, we meet the first non-Korean to run Samsung in the UK and Ireland, and talk sports branding with our friends at Winkreative.

We meet the dentist-turned-entrepreneur in Belgrade behind Avantgarde Bikes, talk FinTech with Mike Laven of The Currency Cloud, discuss renewable power with Radhika Thakkar of Greenlight Planet, review Benetton’s new store concept in Milan, test out Baron Fig notebooks in New York, and give BIC a branding overhaul with Winkreative.

We report from the 1.618 Sustainable Luxury event in Paris, chat with travel-guru Bruce Poon Tip of G Adventures, meet LA-based music maker Squeak E Clean, visit a heritage glove maker in Madrid, head to the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg, and talk brand-crisis management with Winkreative.

We visit Laulhère – the last beret-maker left in France, board a ship with Rodney Russ of Heritage Expeditions, discuss emerging-market corruption with David Buxton of Arachnys, chat with Rory Rogan of Be Packs, meet the team behind Comed(e-Learning), and give Air New Zealand a branding overhaul with Winkreative.

We discuss 3D printing with Martin Warner, visit Kenya-based solar energy startup M -KOPA, meet French paper executive Sophie Chenel, talk money booms with Bob Swarup, chat with Beatrice Pembroke of The British Council, and give London’s presence at MIPIM a branding overhaul with our friends at Winkreative.