Note: This is not investment advice. At heart, I’m a value investor, and Tesla is no value investment. I view it as a binary venture-type bet. I am a shareholder. I believe that Tesla is one of the most misunderstood (and most exciting) tech companies right now. After I rented a Model S for a…
Tag: Startups
Investing Lessons from Running a Startup
[This is an edited version of a talk I recently gave at a MOI Global event.] I’d like to share some of the lessons I learned from being a startup founder, and how these can be applied to investing: Lesson 1: I’m a better investor because I was a founder As Warren Buffett famously said:…
15 Years of (Failed) Side Projects
When writing about the hyper-niche strategy, I thought back to all my own side projects. In this post, I offer a brief post-mortem for each one, so you can learn from my mistakes and don’t repeat them. (There were even more projects, but these were the main ones.) Webmaster forum (2003-2015)While this started as a…
Why You Should Go Hyper-Niche
Since the agricultural, and more recently the industrial revolution, specialization has been one of the key drivers of human economic progress. It allows for a unique win-win situation: You focus on what you do best. I do what I do best. Then we trade. In total, we produce better and more things, which keeps increasing…
31 Takeaways from START Summit 2019
My main motivation for going to START Summit 2019 was to meet old friends and acquaintances from the St. Gallen area, but also to learn from the talks. I was positively surprised. It ended up to be one of the best and most innovative tech/startup conferences I have ever attended. Check out the opening video…
ZenFriend looking for new owner
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 to raise money from investors (although I was approached several times) and I never wanted to hire full-time developers. Unfortunately…
What I learned building the ZenFriend meditation app
This log is inspired by the fantastic developer log by Amir Rajan, developer of #1 game A Dark Room (buy it to support Amir, but don’t play it, it’s super-addictive, you will thank me ;).ZenFriend is a meditation app. The same way that Amir inspired us, we wish to inspire others by sharing our experiences with…
Twitter Early Days
I have finished reading the Twitter founding story. I remember when I signed up for Twitter in April 2007 and instantly fell in love. I loved the concept of ‘blogging via SMS’ and did it using my Palm Treo at the time. Learnings: Twitter was born because Odeo — a podcasting company — has failed and needed a new…
Evan Williams about Twitter
Excellent interview of Evan Williams by Mike Arrington. Twitter (company profile) just bought Summize (company profile) and now redirected it to Twitter Search. I fell in love with Summize and think this is a VERY good move for Twitter. The deal was most stock and some cash. The Summize-CEO left, the rest of the team…
Loic’s daily Video Twitter Startup documentary
The daily videos of Loic’s new Video Twitter Startup are just great. Keep on going Loic! Startup Day 1Startup Day 2Startup Day 3Startup Day 4