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How Important Are Long Work Hours at Startups?

Tech startups are not exactly known as bastions of sane work-life balance. Startup jobs have a reputation of requiring very long work hours, and many role models elevate this picture: Elon Musk supposedly works 120 hours a week. Twitter and Read more…

By Andreas Goeldi, 4 years ago October 4, 2018
Entrepreneurship

Why S-Curves Are Probably the Most Important Concept in Entrepreneurship

The world of entrepreneurship is full of buzzwords. We all want to found the next disruptive game-changing hot startup, leveraging our first-mover advantage in deep tech by thinking outside the box, just before pivoting (in an agile way!) after our Read more…

By Andreas Goeldi, 4 years ago September 20, 2018
Entrepreneurship

Print Money Like Mark Zuckerberg: Understanding Platform Economics

Apologies for the slightly clickbait-y title. But it’s true: Everybody wants to build a platform – the term has become inflationary in startup and innovation circles. That’s understandable because successful platforms are amongst the most profitable and most rapidly growing businesses Read more…

By Andreas Goeldi, 4 years ago September 14, 2018
Entrepreneurship

10 Years Is A Long Time: The Difficulty of Predicting Interesting Markets for Startups

Entrepreneurs and startup investors make bets on the future. That’s the nature of building startups. In order to do that well, you need to make correct predictions about which markets (and specific startup ideas) are going to be successful. It’s Read more…

By Andreas Goeldi, 4 years ago September 6, 2018
Entrepreneurship

Out-Speeding Your Competition: What Startups Can Learn from a Legendary Fighter Pilot

One of the worst mistakes a startup can make, particularly at its earliest stage, is to obsess too much about competition. A lot of wise people, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, rightfully suggest that you should focus most of your Read more…

By Andreas Goeldi, 4 years ago August 30, 2018
Industry analysis

Is the Current Generation of VR Already Dead?

Virtual Reality seems to instill an unhealthy fascination on the technology industry: Every few years since the 1970s, a new generation of VR technology comes along. There’s always a lot of hype and excitement, but after a few years the Read more…

By Andreas Goeldi, 4 years ago August 28, 2018
Entrepreneurship

The Hardest Thing in Startup Strategy: Finding the Right Shiny Object for Each Audience

«How are you different?» — It’s probably the question startup founders hear most frequently. Customers, investors, employees, journalists – they all want to know why they should care about your startup in particular out of the countless other ones out Read more…

By Andreas Goeldi, 4 years ago August 21, 2018
Industry analysis

The Smartphone Revolution: Why the App Store Was More Important Than the iPhone

It’s probably fairly obvious that the smartphone has been the most impactful technological innovation of the past two decades. Few technologies have influenced daily life as much as the always-connected supercomputers we carry in our pockets. The smartphone has changed Read more…

By Andreas Goeldi, 5 years ago June 21, 2018
Entrepreneurship

Is Now a Good Time or a Bad Time to be a Tech Entrepreneur?

The last forty years have been a spectacular period for technology entrepreneurship. A rapid succession of fundamental technologies from the personal computer to the world wide web to smartphones (and their many underlying layers of enabling technologies) have produced a Read more…

By Andreas Goeldi, 5 years ago June 19, 2018
Industry analysis

The Trouble with the Ad Agency Industry: Organizational ADD and Bad Incentives

The world of advertising agencies is clearly in trouble. Or, more accurately, the industry is in a potentially existential crisis, threatened by ever higher client demands, new competitors and the power of digital platforms. If agencies don’t change the way Read more…

By Andreas Goeldi, 5 years ago June 18, 2018

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