Two of the most prominent 2020 presidential candidates on the side of the Democratic Party – Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders, are decided to eradicate student debt in the U.S and this may have a lot to do with cryptocurrency penetration in the higher education market. Continue reading “On Education, Policy, and Technology”
I was provoked by a recent interview of mine for Bloomberg TV to start thinking around the subject of what’s really the key success factor for a startup business to thrive. There is a lot of noise in the startup world around “Founder-Investor”, “Product-Business Model” and other such “fits”, ”matches” that are claimed to be decisive for the success of a startup. I don’t dispute these. However, in my opinion, the “Idea-Founder” match is the only thing that matters at the end (literally, according to the terminal values theory). If the project you are working on as a founder does not match with your long-term goals and aspirations, then the odds are against you and your business. Continue reading “This is a Business Concept Giveaway. Because the “Idea-Founder” Fit is the Most Important for a Thriving Startup!”
Team’s award ceremony, attended by the chairman of AIESEC Latvia and a team of EY consultants
Originally published on Medium by OS.UNIVERSITY R&D team
In May 2017, Hristian Daskalov, project lead at the Open Source University on exchange at Riga Technical University, took part in Latvian ‘Youth Speak Forum’, organized by world’s largest students-led organization AIESEC and their partners from world’s leading consultancy — Ernst & Young (EY).
The Future is here – it’s just not very evenly distributed, William Gibson once wrote. Hence, you need to know where and when to look in order to connect the dots and see the broader futuristic-turned-realistic picture. There were a few such opportunities for me to look into over the past year.
Speaking at a workshop on creating the next generation of EU leaders, who will need to deal with the crisis, created by the previous one due to lack of change management skills and knowledge.
In 2012, an essay of mine won me two highly appreciated recognitions. One came from the first edition of Sofia Business School’s Master Classes on Global Economic and Financial Risks – Best Working Paper Award, and a scholarship for the annual Von Mises conference, organized by the pro-market Istituto Bruno Leoni. And the other coming from the ALDE (to which i have no affiliation and never had, which only makes it more special) – a pan-European scholarship contest and an opportunity to take part in a leadership academy on the subject of the future of the EU.
Getting invited to speak at the monthly coffee talk of HP’s Business Support Services team in Sofia was a great honor for me. Especially having to open the floor for a new initiative, called “Ideas Worth Sharing”, intended to spread motivating and engaging personal stories among the employee community of the Sofia based HP BSS team.
My participation was provoked by a recent article of HP’s GBS magazine where my book on Stakeholder Management was spotlighted among other employee-related success stories as part of the “In Pursuit of Your Passion” campaign.
This article is about the problems. If you are more of a solution-oriented person, check this interview directly.
Universities fail for the exact same reasons that led to the financial collapse of 2008 – they (just as the banks did) forgot what they were designed to do. And opposite to the modern-day banking, university education can be far more easily substituted.
OK, I wound not start with the banking comparison – obviously it would be wiser to keep it for later on, as it is a sensitive argument, indeed, and provoking one. So let’s take an alternative approach to explain where we currently stand with university education, and what we should expect by discussing why did the housing market in the U.S. basically turned into bubble, and eventually went bust, along with the banking system inflating it – the primary cause of the 2007–2009 recession. It’s simple – it ended up this way, because it broke its linkage with the common sense of doing business in an entrepreneurial economy, turning itself into a deceptive, but yet not-so-clever instrumental bundle of service to the hedge funds, investment banks schemes and products, you name it… Remaining without any meaningful purpose on the outside, and especially in regards to the housing demand & supply logic, to start with.