For the Weekend — Superb Launches, Building Businesses, and Future Trends
This week, the media is swamped with the Panama Papers leak. The teaser trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is out teasing you till December. Nest is pulling the plug on Revolv. Whatsapp is encrypting all your messages. Someone won the American Idol. Someone won during WrestleMania32 while the son of WWE founder lost. Alaska is interested in Virgin. Curvy Amy Schumer was labeled as “plus-size” by Glamour. However, these are what we find interesting, that you might have missed, for your weekend consumption.
First of, this is the only article you should read about the Panama Papers, written by the Elvis of cultural theory Slavoj Zizek.
Superb Launches
Michelle Grant launched Lively on Tuesday with 133,000 email addresses who signed up due to the traction gained from social media. Fast Company dissects the challenges and competition of selling underpants online.
Porsche made use of 3D Hologram to launch the new Porsche 911.
Blue Origin, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezo, launched the rocket New Shepard again and returning the rocket booster back to Earth for the third time. Get a glimpse into how he think from the brief Amazon annual letter released on Tuesday.
SpaceX has also launched their 8th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station and made a successful sea landing on a floating drone ship. (Launch starts at the 18:50 mark)
Building Businesses
Lars Dalgaard, General Partner at Andersseen Horowitz, on how to build long-lasting and strong companies so that you can stay private longer.
Racked interviewed the unpretentious Tom Cridland so that you can learn how to launch your own brand with $9,000 selling clothes that are promised to last 30 years.
A graduate of MIT Media Lab iterating his way to a commercial product.
Learn about the intricacies of doing business in China.
The two DailyVee by Gary Vaynerchuk that was released this week, the best so far. Get a glimpse of the hustle he puts in every day and his knowledge of social media. He day trades attention.
Surface magazine interviewed Maxwell Osborne and Dao-Yi Chow, founders of the fashion label Public School on growth.
Alessandra Ilari of New York Times reported that luxury brands are realising that brand narratives are more important that your product.
Alexa Adams and Flora Gill decided to close down their fashion label due to the challenges of running a business.
In 1957 two inventors named Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes were attempting to create a three-dimensional plastic wallpaper. Although the idea was a failure, they found that what they did make, bubble wrap, could be used as packing material. — The Dieline Design Nugget #70
Looking into the Future
Megan Logue thinks that technology is coming after fashion and fashion have to change the experience and the object.
Trendwatching presents the potential changes we will see in health and wellness in the years to come.
Janine Benyus explains nature’s technology: biomimicry, innovation inspired by nature.
Entomophagy, the human consumption of insects, might reach the masses sooner than you expect with LIVIN Farms.
Mind Ticklers
A long form about Etsy by New York Magazine.
Hodinkee brings you into the manufacturing process of NOMOS, the German watchmaker.
Asket from Stockholm shows you how an Oxford Shirt is made.
Ryan Holiday asks you to questions things and not to wait for certainty to act as it has never come.
Ramit Sethi lays out the way to ask questions in a conversation.
We have switched from 2G to 3G to 4G LTE, from Mini SIM to Micro SIM to Nano SIM. Vice’s Motherboard ask why are SIM cards still a thing.
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