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Everybody that seems to have an opinion about Facebooks recent name change to Meta seems to have aired it by now. So naturally, I thought it time to went my own two cents on the subject; why it changes nothing about the fundamentals, why it’s different from Googles renaming to Alphabet, why Mark Zuckerberg needs… Continue reading Meta thoughts
Let me admit it straight from the bat: I have an overwhelming fondness for business models that addresses the users wallet directly. Not in terms of forcing them to splash the cash but in terms of delivering products, services and experiences that solve meaningful problems and challenges to people, which they are both willing an… Continue reading Who are you selling to?
Personally, I am no big believer in all the talk about the ‘metaverse’; the idea that AR, VR, crypto, NFTs and other good stuff is going to be woven together and present a whole new kind of digital layer to our physical existence. But I am reasonable enough to agree that when enough big players… Continue reading From fad to phenomenon
Until now it has been somewhat of an established truth that if you’re a software engineer, and you know your programming languages of choice really, really well, you can do pretty much anything; You can bring new ideas to life, build new products, build new business even, if you’re an engineer with a keen interest… Continue reading A new kind of rockstars
When things don’t go according to plan, many of us immediately start to ask ourselves the obvious question: “Why?” But maybe that’s not the best approach. Because when you ask why something happened, in the absence of absolute honesty - which is often the case - excuses, good and bad will take over. Because we… Continue reading Don’t ask. Fix!
The other day I finished “The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann and the Great Startup Delusion” by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell. It charts in excruciating, painful detail the rise and fall of WeWork, one of the best funded most-hyped US startups ever. And it’s a great read that I highly recommend. One of… Continue reading Viability does matter
So far we have been used to medical breakthroughs in treatment of various conditions in terms of new medicines, where a new pill can be the solution to serious conditions and ailments of various sorts. The new and highly successful obesity drug from Danish manufacturer, Novo Nordisk, is just one example. But every time a… Continue reading Needed: New breed of digital health tools
What will the Work-from-home (WFH) movement mean for local economic growth prospects? And for startups looking to facilitate this new way of basically organizing the economy? Futurist Thomas Frey has an interesting take, in which he basically says that while flexibility for people and corporations will be at an all time high, the demands on… Continue reading The new WFH opportunity