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When difficulties arise, it might very well be good news. Because those difficulties may dissuade all the people who aren’t as dedicated as you are.Seth Godin, 'If it were easy...' Absolutely. It may never be really easy and some times even to tough to stomach. But there really is no other way.
A couple of days ago an old love affair ended, when I deleted the Endomondo fitness app from my phone. For what seems like many years I have been a loyal Endomondo user, and for a period of a couple of years I also subscribed to the product to be able to get customized workout… Continue reading Bye bye, Endomondo
A day doesn't go by without someone deeply questioning the value of higher education. It's the cost, it's the hazzle, it's the time wasted on subjects you never get to use etc. And a day doesn't go by without young people feeling anxious about making the right choices for their education and subsequent careers. Because… Continue reading Become (sort of) a journalist
I love OKR's as a concept. And God knows I have been trying time and time again to make them and associated tracking apps and services work for me and my team. But alas; I have failed every single time. It is not that setting up OKRs is super hard; everybody can define and objective… Continue reading The problem with OKR
When you're trying to solve a problem for someone, it helps a lot if you can empathize - even feel - the problem yourself. Because it's when you have a real sense of the problem, you release all those creative juices that allows you to not only look at the problem from different angles but… Continue reading Feel the problem
Without saying anything in particular about the US presidential election, it seems like it once again is a good opportunity to question the value of assumptions as substitutes for fact. In essence an opinion poll is an assumption. Perhaps even more so in the US, where the first challenge of validation your assumption is to… Continue reading Election learning
There seems to be a general misconception around the notion of ideas; Since everybody can have them, what becomes important is whether you do something about them and - more importantly - how you do something about them. Let me try to explain while I think this is inaccurate in a startup context: Even if… Continue reading Grand ideas do matter
Not so long ago I met for the second time with a potential co-founder for our MedTech startup. It was a really good and interesting meeting, and the conversation was really good. One of the things we talked about was what it means to be a co-founder of a startup. "What does being a co-founder… Continue reading What’s in a co-founder?