I have just watched the Stacking the Bricks Presentation (Click here to download the MOV file) by Amy Hoy. It’s about how to build a product business, by showing how 37signals and other product businesses got started: A good way to start is to create a first paying, downloadable product. It could be a summary,…
Category: Wealth
Winning that first customer
Yesterday I have watched this video about validating your business which has been recommended to me independantly by two Entrepreneur friends: It shows you how to increase the odds that your business will be successful by focusing on the most important thing first: winning your first real customers, even before building your business and potentially…
How to maximize creativity at work
Some notes I have taken while reading Remote: Office Not Required: Routine is killing creativity Therefore you should change scenery often: go to a library, a cafe, to a friend, to a coworking space Regularly change your desk and therefore your perspective If company has a regular office, embed into company culture: change/rotate desks every…
Playing it safe, failing to pivot, failing to quit (or sell)
In 2004 — wow, I’m just realising that this is exactly 10 years ago now :) — we have started a hosted forum service — a wordpress.com for forums — under the name of Ultraboard (later renamed to Parlaris) where you could create a free forum on a subdomain, e.g. yourforum.ultraboard.ch. When deciding to build this service, we set ourselves two options: build a…
When nobody cares
One of the most difficult things for me to accept as an entrepreneur is the fact that — more often than not — nobody really cares about my products and services. Naturally when I am excited about something I expect the same enthusiasm by everybody else. This almost never happens. Yes, there may be interest, sometimes real, more often…
Arztrechnungen Projekt wird eingestellt. Ein Fazit zum Schluss.
(Dies ist eine Fortsetzung meines Postings vom März 2013) Liebe Freunde, Diese Facebook Seite wurde vor 9 Monaten gestartet, und war ein aufregendes Experiment. Ich wollte ausprobieren, ob man ohne Budget und mit spartanischen Werkzeugen, also ohne Website, sondern nur mittels Facebook-Seite, eine Konsumentenbewegung starten kann. Gewisse Erfolge haben wir erzielt. Mehrheitlich sind wir gescheitert….
My Entrepreneurship Learnings
Some learnings I recently shared at Startup Weekend Basel.
Arztkosten Initiative
Update 30.12.2013: Das Arztrechnungen Projekt wird eingestellt. Ein Fazit zum Schluss. Update 3.4.2013: Bereits 10 Tage nach dem Start der Initiative wurde ich vom Tagesanzeiger betreffend eines Artikels kontaktiert. Dieser Artikel ist nun heute erschienen. Der Artikel wurde im Newsnet publiziert, d.h. neben dem Tagi ebenfalls in der BaZ, der BZ und Der Bund. Als…
Thoughts on Universal Basic Income
When I first heard about the idea of a Universal Basic Income (Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen) from a buddhist monk in 2010 I was very sceptical. A spontaneous prejudice, without knowing a thing about it. Now probably for the first time in my life I started to really dig into a political initiative to form my own…
Angel Investing 101
Interesting session with Ron Conway and Mike Maples. Key thoughts: Silicon Valley has an angel ecosystem like nowhere else The components of a good startup: The People = 80%, The Idea = 20% What is the job of a business angel? → generating value — REAL value! BUT: it’s not the job of an angel to be…