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You start out with a vision. You fight to develop your product. You ship. And you get so caught up by day-to-day operations and fixing things that you don't have time to think about the vision or - more importantly - put initiatives in place for the longer term that will ensure you continue driving… Continue reading Making the vision operational
The thing that truly separates a corporate job from a job at the startup is the chance to have an outsized impact on solving a problem for customers. More often than not the distance between problem, potential solution and the ability to get that solution in front of customers to test out is way short… Continue reading Have you got a sales quota?
It is always a pleasure when you have the opportunity to go out and share some of the experiences and learnings, you have had, to an audience who need the insights in order to improve their odds of turning ideas into successful startups. I had such an opportunity the other day, when I visited the… Continue reading Helping university research count
Working at startup takes it toll. Ambitions are running high, ressources are always stretched, a lot of processes are not in place, and getting the right talent to join the mission is super hard. There is absolutely every reason for why days and weeks can feel like an almost eternal struggle. But that's just the… Continue reading Affecting change hurts
There are many approaches towards building a healthy startup business that will take off, grow end endure during both good and more challenging times. But honestly I cannot think of a better one than to treat your customer as the bottom line. The math behind it is simple: Every time you delight a customer by… Continue reading Your customer is the bottom line
Back in the day when you wanted to build a startup you either needed to be or to find a skilled developer in order to get anything done. This hard requirement was one of the reasons why developers generally won the designation 'rockstars' on most ambitious startup teams; you simply couldn't do without them. You… Continue reading No-code sort of FTW
How many times have you met a startup, which has claimed to be ‘Uber for X’, ‘AirBnb for Y’ or another version of something already in existence and hugely popular? Many times. And every time it has been cringeworthy. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that it is all bad taking your cues from others, who… Continue reading Getting inspired by others
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?