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When you're trying to get a startup off the ground, one of the things you spend most time on is... Pitching. Of course you pitch for investment or just any sort of backing really, because you need the support and all the ressources, you can muster, for the journey ahead. But the pitching doesn't stop… Continue reading Always be pitching
I have a fondness for paradoxes. I find them interesting, intriguing and sometimes even amusing. One of the paradoxes is the one about working agile and lean while at the same time lamenting the lack of progress. Why is it that we often judge something that is work-in-progress as a failure because it's not the… Continue reading Success-in-progress
"I work all the time." It is one of the things, you most often hear from entrepreneurs trying to succeed with whatever their venture may be. And while in no way surprising, to me it has always been kind of puzzling. I am a guy who likes to picture things in my mind. And I… Continue reading Burning the Midnight Oil
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
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
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
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
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