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Building a Future for Financial Education: A Conversation with Wisdm Founder Mick Kalle Mickelborg

Jason Malki

Here, Kalle was able to develop his skills as a startup founder and ambitious entrepreneur. This experience proved invaluable when he co-founded Wisdm, a financial education platform. We also come from very different backgrounds and cultures, but that is also what is exciting. Thank you so much for joining us!

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. You also need to establish a culture of sharing and collegiality.

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Jeong Ji-hee, CEO of MEDIAIPLUS, Spearheads Transformation of Clinical Trial Data; Aims to be the ‘Amazon of Healthcare’

AsiaTechDaily

Before establishing MEDIAIPLUS in 2018, I had gained experience in a foreign company, familiarizing myself with its organizational culture. During that time, entrepreneurship-related education programs were offered by the Gyeonggi Business & Science Accelerator (GBSA), operated in collaboration with Pangyo Startup Campus.

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Preparing Your Startup for the Next M&A Wave

Revolution

Startup founders can start positioning themselves now to be acquired in that wave. Most will have a ranked scorecard with specific criteria, such as deal terms, strategic fit, competitive gaps filled, cultural compatibility, potential upside, and finally “lift” — how hard will the purchase and subsequent integration be?

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What Drives The University Of Michigan’s Entrepreneurial Success

HPA

While the University of Michigan has been formally educating students on entrepreneurship for decades, the region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem has notably ramped up in the last ten years and has effectively used its powerful alumni network to amplify its growth. In the mid-2010s, that focus began to evolve. Just as the $2.4B

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What minority founders must consider before entering the venture-backed startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. But what about those minority founders who don’t have family, friends or connections to lean on for the first $250,000? hit nearly $1.8

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JiHee Jung, CEO of MEDIAIPLUS, Spearheads Transformation of Clinical Trial Data; Aims to be the ‘Amazon of Healthcare’

AsiaTechDaily

Before establishing MEDIAIPLUS in 2018, I had gained experience in a foreign company, familiarizing myself with its organizational culture. During that time, entrepreneurship-related education programs were offered by the Gyeonggi Business & Science Accelerator (GBSA), operated in collaboration with Pangyo Startup Campus.