This year was a good reminder that most major events come unexpected and are unpredictable. It’s always fun to write down some hopes and expectations, but the reality often turns out to be different. As always, the best thing we can do is to focus on our input (what we control), and not worry about…
Tag: Learnings
Life Lessons from Kai-Fu Lee
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee is the former President of Google China, artificial intelligence expert, venture capitalist, and author of the wonderful book AI Superpowers. He recently gave a talk, highlighting his key life lessons: 1. Do what you love, and you’ll never work another day in your life At Columbia University, he fell in love with…
The going international trap
Back in 2007, when Alain and I were building Trigami, we almost made a terrible mistake. Actually we were in the middle of doing it. To give you some background: Trigami was a B2B advertising network, specialized on blogs and social media, heavily relying on B2B sales (phone calls, proposals, meetings). We were young and…
My Entrepreneurship Learnings
Some learnings I recently shared at Startup Weekend Basel.
How I Simplified My Life
Well, it’s been a while since my last blog-post :-). Since REWORK inspired me to share more stuff, I’ll now share how I simplified my life in the past months and years. Ever since I’ve read The 4-Hour Workweek simplification became one of my key principles of life. Since then, my selective perception kicked in and…
My Learnings in 2007
The biggest impact on my professional life had David Allen with Getting Things Done. In the past 2 months, I implemented this concept both in my personal and my professional life and am very happy with it. My mailboxes are constantly down to zero (although my @Action folder still has around 10 mails left) and…
Great speech: Jyri Engeström (Co-Founder of Jaiku) about Microblogging
I heard this speach of Jyri the first time at Reboot9, and now I watched it a second time after Loic pointed me to it again. My Learnings: Social Networks that are just “Social Networks” will fail (= Butterfly effect) Every service needs social objects (Flickr = fotos; Amazon = books; MySpace = music; etc.)…
Be more passionate, be more aggressive!
I just saw the third episode of SF Start up. The clear message is: Be more passionate, be more aggressive! You have to be able to sell your project. You have to be able to seize chances. You have to be able to distinguish yourself. Although the content itself of this episode was quite boring,…