Thanks to my newsletter I re-connected with a former employee. I couldn’t be more proud of him. Here are some awesome pictures he sent me (and gave permission to share them.) He bought a camper and turned it into his office. How cool is that! Every morning at 5am he drives to a remote place….
Month: November 2016
Call your users
I’ve written about Y Combinator‘s mantra before: Talk to your users! Here is what I have done recently: I’ve written a short email to 100 of the most active Exsila users and asked them if they would like to do a short phone call with me. I asked them to send me their phone number and their availability….
ZenFriend looking for new owner
Update: We have found a great new home for ZenFriend. The project will be in good hands and live on! In the past two years the ZenFriend app has grown to 41.232 downloads. Together we have completed 126.250 hours of meditation in 380.634 sessions. Wow! For me ZenFriend was always a side-project. I never wanted…
You become what you think about
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t — you’re right.” — Henry Ford Henry Ford is a genius. It’s one thing to understand this intellectually — and a whole new game to *really* understand it with all your being. It took 32 years for me to finally *get it*. My 6.5 years of daily meditation certainly helped, but…
Talk to users
Y Combinator — a successful start-up incubator — has a mantra: Talk to your users! Here is Y Combinator’s advice from the How to Start a Startup Lecture Series at Stanford (which I highly recommend!): “At YC, we tell founders to work on their product, talk to users, exercise, eat and sleep, and very little else. All the other…
Building a compounding engine
Ever since reading The Intelligent Investor many years ago, I subscribe to the “value investing” school of thought. It boils down to buying undervalued companies and being a long-term investor. What Has Worked In Investing (PDF) is a great start if you are new to the concept. Here is what I learned so far: While learning…