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About Trust, Transparency, Authenticity, Meaning, Image and Entrepreneurship
Danny Mekić (1987) is a born entrepreneur. He started his first internet company at the age of 15. After winning a number of awards in 2009, he started appearing in the media more and more often. This caused him to end up in the phone books of the ‘éminence grise’, who invited him to all…
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“Entrepreneurship begins at not taking the world around you for granted”
How did you encounter entrepreneurship during your childhood? That’s a good and interesting question. After all, what is entrepreneurship? Most people would think of starting a company, but to me entrepreneurship is something much more fundamental still. Entrepreneurship begins at not taking the world around you for granted. Seeing opportunities for improvement and then trying…
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Which airplane to take?
The disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines jet MH370 could have been avoided, that’s what experts say. Of course it could have been avoided, in an era in which intelligence services like the GHCQ and NSA are able to track down each and every smartphone connected to a cell phone network, and Facebook and Google are…
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Privacy panic – Should we rush to delete our Facebook and Whatsapp profiles?
Privacy panic – Should we rush to delete our Facebook and Whatsapp profiles? Or do we just carry on, and trust that no one will be meddling with our privacy and that our data will not be up for grabs? The news that as of last week, Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg owns not only Instagram…
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Facebook is far more powerful than its users realise
Facebook is far more powerful than its hundreds of millions of users realise. „It’s a very scary fact that Facebook has the power to make or break companies or individuals.” That’s a warning from internet expert Danny Mekić on the social network’s tenth anniversary. „Because who decides what information you are shown?” Behind the scenes, Facebook…
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Imprisoned in Facebook
Once anyone has started a social life on Facebook, it’s very difficult to quit again. „Quitting Facebook is like throwing away your own diary”, internet expert Danny Mekic’ says. „You build up something personal that you won’t want to lose any more.” For that reason, many hundreds of millions of users can’t go a day…