Trung Nguyen

What’s in it for me? Learn what drives a nation’s start-up spirit. Can you be born into entrepreneurship with the gift of an “innovative” nationality? According to Senor and Singer, being from Israel can give you a considerable head start. These blinks show how Israel has become a global powerhouse …

Start-ups need to be managed differently from established companies. In the first three blinks, you’ll discover what the main goal is that a start-up should pursue. Traditional management consists of two components: developing plans and overseeing the people executing them. A manager creates a plan, sets milestones, and delegates tasks to her …

What’s in it for me? Learn the secrets to startup success from one of the world’s most prominent venture capitalists. These days, almost anyone can found their own start-up. You don’t even need your own office: many entrepreneurs work from their living room or a nearby café. This is good …

What’s in it for me: find out how you can become a great CEO. It’s lonely at the top. CEOs face an immense struggle: they have sole responsibility for their company’s fate and must make life or death decisions about it every day. They may need to fire their best …

What’s in it for me? Follow the quirky beginnings and meteoric rise of a footwear empire. You certainly know the successful tagline of footwear giant Nike: Just Do It. It captures the daring spirit of Nike cofounder Phil Knight in the early years of his company. In these blinks, you’ll …

What’s in it for me? Meet the man who revolutionized Chinese e-commerce. Today, China is not only home to one of the world’s largest economies and the most rapidly developing cities; it’s also extremely technologically advanced, with widespread, high-speed internet and ubiquitous wifi. But only a few decades ago, things …

What’s in it for me? Learn what drove Elon Musk to the pinnacle of success. There are only a few businesspeople in the world as well known and admired as Elon Musk. His successes in a range of areas – from electric cars to space travel – have established him …

What’s in it for me? Learn from the maker of The Everything Store In 1994 only a handful of people understood the possibilities the internet would hold in the future. Back then, Bezos was working for the hedge fund D.E. Shaw & Co., where he and several colleagues dreamt of …

What’s in it for me? Find out how Apple’s Steve Jobs became a worldwide technology icon. It’s almost impossible to overstate the role that Steve Jobs played in the creation of our contemporary, computer-mediated world. A single-minded perfectionist, Jobs was a visionary who wanted to change the world through technology. …

What’s in it for me? Take a journey down the long history of the Silk Roads. The history of the world is a mighty big topic. When grappling with such an outsized subject, it’s tempting to try to streamline it. Some historians make it seem like an adventure story, zeroing …