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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
«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…
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…
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…
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…
Five years ago, I wrote my most successful blog post ever (well, so far). It was originally intended to be just rant for my gadget-obsessed friends, but it got quickly upvoted on Hacker News and was finally republished by Business Insider and Gizmodo, Read more…