The software industry is a very dynamic environment. According to some estimates, there are currently over 27,000 active SaaS companies, and the number keeps growing. With all this activity, it’s easy to forget that the current business model of software as a service is already the third fundamentally different way Read more…
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 Square founder Jack Dorsey by comparison slacks off with just Read more…
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 A/B tests showed concerns with our UX and product market 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 there. Having a good answer to this fundamental question is 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 cornucopia of entrepreneurial opportunity. Today, the five most valuable companies Read more…