Mistakes are OK

When you venture into something new, you haven't tried before and/or don't have the faintest idea of where will end up, you are going to make mistakes. And probably a lot of them. The easy thing to do is not to venture anywhere, in the first place, because by doing nothing, you won't make any… Continue reading Mistakes are OK

When love becomes fatal

One of the things we're constantly looking for, when we're talking to potential co-founders, is the ability to fall in love with the problem, we're looking to solve. Either straight off the bat - much preferred but rare - or as something to grow easily into. But is love of the problem always that great?… Continue reading When love becomes fatal

Roadmap of experiments

When trying to understand a problem, it's potential solutions and what you should build in the end, it is so easy to loose the big picture of what you're doing and how that translates down to experiment by experiment that moves your product closer to something desirable. But it doesn't have to be that way.… Continue reading Roadmap of experiments

Talk code as non-coder

For quite a while I have been deeply fascinated with no-code platform Bubble. It's immensely powerful in itself, and it allows no-coders like me the opportunity to dabble a bit into it and try to get an understanding for how code structure actually works. But it also presents another huge advantage: An improved ability to… Continue reading Talk code as non-coder

Go for the consumer

When someone in a startup tells me that they are going for the enterprise segment, I get a 'gulp' feeling. In fact the only thing that makes me more anxious is if the startup is going for the public sector. Why? Because it can be super tricky to actually sell what you're doing to them.… Continue reading Go for the consumer

Prepare for the digital health struggle

If you had the need for a piece of advice from a doctor, would you launch a super-app like WeChat to find one who could help you? No matter what you say you would do, it is already happening in China, where WeDoctor is part of the WeChat overall experience. And working to be available… Continue reading Prepare for the digital health struggle

Customer loyalty during a crisis

A lot of people say that there is never a time as good to start a new venture as in a time of crisis. Maybe it's true. I don't know. But lets assume it is. What are the things that makes it different and perhaps even better? Normally, most would suggest that the reason it… Continue reading Customer loyalty during a crisis

A happy note

Yesterday, a long time acquintance sent me a direct Twitter-message that made me really happy. In it he basically stated that it was great to observe from the sidelines the new things, I am involved in, and that to him it looked like, I had found a much better place for myself than was the… Continue reading A happy note