The Entrepreneurs

We eat our way through the Americana food craze in Amman, meet the man who resurrected a favourite spirit from the Belle Époque, break open the business model of Girl Meets Dress - a company that rents out designer dresses, meet the restaurateur behind London’s newly opened Ape & Bird, delve into the concept of the ‘internet of things’ with Usman Haque, and give the polar-vortex clothing favourite, Canada Goose, a branding overhaul with our friends at Winkreative.

We’re in Turkey to check the health of the Anatolian print market, meet an Austrian ex-banker who runs an ice-cream emporium in Belgrade, sit down with designer extraordinaire Sid Mashburn, review a recyclable smartphone case in Taipei, visit the home of hi-fi firm McIntosh, and give experiential dining a branding overhaul with our friends at Winkreative.

The best of The Entrepreneurs in 2013, with all the reports you loved and the guests who made you think.

In this festive edition, we try out a Christmas-tree delivery service in New York, visit a baker in Toronto, and revisit some of our favourite social entrepreneurs who did well by doing good for others this year.

We investigate how Berlin’s growing bicycle traffic has spawned a burgeoning startup ecosystem, meet Voga entrepreneur Juliet Murrell, take stock of an alternative currency pumping life into the Sardinian economy, chat with the designer of a 3D-speaker system with a decidedly retro influence, talk to two Colombian footwear entrepreneurs, and discuss premium-brand positioning with our friends at Winkreative.

We meet two Brooklyn-based entrepreneurs rekindling a lost beer-brewing tradition, profile a pioneering company in the field of electronic music production, head to the foot of the French Alps to meet the makers of an amphibious aircraft, look at the future of interactive video advertising, and give the iconic German camera brand Leica a branding overhaul with our friends at Winkreative.

We meet Michael Phillips Moskowitz, founder of the popular online marketplace Bureau of Trade, head to Tunisia to visit a company that’s taking the interior design world by storm, meet the minds behind Wok+Wine, take a flight on a hot-air balloon in Spain, chat with Andrew Apostola, co-founder of the online men's quarterly Svbscription, and talk Alpine apparel brands with our friends at Winkreative.

Daniel Giacopelli heads to the international finals of the Creative Business Cup in Copenhagen, we meet David and Tom Kelley of IDEO on the release of their new book “Creative Confidence”, and our friends at Winkreative drop by to give Marc Jacobs a branding overhaul.

We head to Slush in Helsinki – the largest start-up conference in Northern Europe, find out why investing in wine is a good idea, speak to Marc Strigel, COO of SoundCloud, and meet the people behind online philanthropic fashion retailer Mygoodness.com.

We meet the man whose wants to spark a business giving revolution, visit a company that’s made political tourism a roaring trade, chat with a science-fiction screenwriter turned ice-cream parlour impresario in Brooklyn, talk hair-styling with one of most powerful women in Brazil, meet one company that thinks it has cracked how to sell to the millennial generation, and discuss an industry in search of a business model with our friends at Winkreative.