The corporate talent gift

In the startup environment it is not uncommon to frown upon people with experience from the corporate world. They are either too old, too conservative, to0 expensive or just too corporate to make it in the startup world. But is this really true? I don’t think so. In fact I think the right corporate profile… Continue reading The corporate talent gift

Free your talents

What’s the point in spending a lot of time and effort in getting the best people to join your team, if you’re not prepared to let their talents loose for the good of the company? It sounds like a stupid question, but in reality it happens all the time; great people are onboarded with promises… Continue reading Free your talents

Don’t try to be Keith Richards

Whenever you talk of ‘Sex, drugs and rock’n’roll’, you have to think of the legendary Rolling Stones. Not only have they made an eternal contribution to great music that will live forever. They have also lived the above myth to the extreme. Lead guitarist Keith Richards has been chief among those trying everything on the… Continue reading Don’t try to be Keith Richards

Time your own luck – now

Getting a business off the ground of course has a lot to do with the idea and what pain you’re looking to solve for customers. But it is also about timing and luck. Some people say that you can make your own luck. And perhaps that is true. To an extend. What you certainly can… Continue reading Time your own luck – now

Short term joy, long term agony

One of the things that I have been spending a lot of time on these last couple of years is the subject of university research and how to transform the best of it into viable spinouts that can go on to solve real problems in the world. There is no doubt that the potential within… Continue reading Short term joy, long term agony

The future of work, postponed

Flextribe, a Danish recruitment startup, wants to connect freelancers with deep subject matter expertise, who doesn't necessarily want a full time position, with corporations who need said expertise but can struggle in attracting the necessary talent for the before mentioned reason; they don't want to be employed. Simple. But the Future of Work? I am… Continue reading The future of work, postponed

6 principles for a great team

The other day I was discussing philosophies for building and maintaining a great team with a good friend of mine. I thought I wanted to share my philosophy here because great people and developing great people are essential to any hope of success whether it being in a startup or anywhere else. So here goes:… Continue reading 6 principles for a great team

The new media mixtape

As a former insider turned outsider it continues to be interesting to follow the innovative developments within the media space. Over a short period of years we have gone from monoliths over new entrants with ambitions to become digital monoliths to individual talents and a plethora of ambitious (monoliths-in-spe?) platforms aggressively hawking their capabilities towards… Continue reading The new media mixtape