Getting funding is easy
The funding is a derivative of the real issues. When you have the right components in place the money comes to you rather easily.
June 9, 2020The funding is a derivative of the real issues. When you have the right components in place the money comes to you rather easily.
June 9, 2020Focus on the thing that makes or breaks your future. Worry about the other stuff later.
June 8, 2020Stefan Björkman explains the investment climate ahead of us, reveals his management secret, talks about a good company board, and what’s the purpose of glue in business.
June 7, 2020Investor money is a big temptation. Bootstrapping is hard. It has its advantages but you may appreciate them only later.
June 5, 2020It is like compound interest. So easy to grasp but so difficult to comprehend and follow in practice.
June 4, 2020The successful founders are hesitant to start their company. They may even dislike the idea and really hate it. It’s the necessary evil for accomplishing the desired outcome.
June 3, 2020When it’s time to move on and leave the unreceptive environment behind?
June 2, 2020Whether you want to learn about various innovation stories or understand better the interconnected nature of the innovation system Ridley shines light to the crucial area of our existence. Who wants to go back thirty, twenty or even ten years?
June 1, 2020Hampus Jakobsson talks about living in the moment, the biggest challenges for humanity, who are the most interesting people and why hearing is important while cooking.
May 31, 2020There are ways to have a virtual experience with your browser that is more than just sitting in a zoom-call.
May 28, 2020The hidden dilution can happen easily with convertible notes that start to pile up on each other and have different terms.
May 27, 2020Social entrepreneur and founder of Acumen Jacqueline Novogratz calls for a revolution to reimagine how we are living on this planet in this century.
May 26, 2020One of the challenges is to make the investors not to wait for each other but commit to their amount as they come. This is a balancing act where the demand and supply meet the closing skills of the founder.
May 25, 2020Richard Georg Engström talks about how to make films in Scandinavia, navigate unknown and uncultivated opportunities, what is impact and what it means to be happy.
May 24, 2020How do you have a group chat where it actually feels like a group talk and not individual people talking over each other?
May 22, 2020We are getting back to the very basics of the Internet again. How to connect people and make it resilient without centralised parties in the middle.
May 21, 2020It may also be worthwhile to consider whether we should lower our firewalls a notch. We are all learning to communicate and reach out to people in this new situation. Not all people are trying to scam us.
May 20, 2020All business is H2H, human-to-human. All your decisions are value judgements consciously and even without acknowledging them.
May 19, 2020Video is taking over face-to-face meetings. A small step for a business person but a huge leap for all business practices.
May 18, 2020Ville Tolvanen talks about finding your audience, how to deal with trolls and why virtual activists are the future leaders.
May 17, 2020Virtual everything and virtual first is something very serious and urgent. You cannot appreciate it fully unless you’re immersed into the new and unfamiliar. It takes courage and humility. Errors will be made and they are for all to see.
May 15, 2020Sometimes it’s healthy to do short sprints and consciously do leaps that don’t feel natural. This is one of those times. What feels like a brave thing to do now seems obvious and lame in retrospect. It’s just a matter of perspective.
May 14, 2020The future of business travel may be more local and earthbound. It’s more comfortable to travel by car, train or boat in short hauls provided that you’re keeping within the green zones such as Baltics. Trust is a high currency now among people, nation-states, and companies.
May 13, 2020There’s no reason to favour someone just because they are a few kilometres away from you. Or limit your reach just because it’s convenient or familiar.
May 12, 2020Some of the gains and productivity progress achieved may have been temporary victories if they are not fought over. Habits take a long time to form and the lockdown period may not have been long enough for that.
May 11, 2020It requires friendliness and encouragement towards small and fragile. It expects thick skin and moral backbone to resist the temptation of favouring incumbents and old solutions. It accepts the fact that something new is strange, different and unfamiliar
May 8, 2020The whole process of going through the different stages of the coronavirus crisis has shown weaknesses, stress points, structural, managerial, political and systemic challenges or mere blunt misconducts and ignorance in our society.
It has shown that we are not prepared for something that is unexpected and requires immediate coordination and cooperation on a large scale.
Second-order effects are category-defining, paradigm-shifting and changing the course of many product categories, habits and values for good.
They are big changes that may seem to approach slowly but yet their coming is a certainty, it’s just a matter of time: objects in your horizon may appear further than they are.
May 6, 2020Post-coronavirus new normal is taking shape. It’s easy to overestimate the short term and underestimate the long term consequences.
May 5, 2020there’s another way to succeed in the market. It’s based on your ability to create your customers’ attachment to you.
April 17, 2020The whole purpose is to focus on these customers and serve them better than anyone else: to delight those who value and want what you’re doing more than anything else. The process to become oversubscribed concentrates on understanding who are these people, how to find them and what is it exactly what they want.
April 6, 2020The book walks through the whole recruitment process and gives enough practical guidance to plan and execute hiring in detail. It takes the view of hiring manager who’s responsible of the new recruitment and provides tips how to involve and handle the HR department if the company has one.
February 17, 2020Supertrends reminds us to look into those lingering things that barely move when you focus on them but are huge when compared to the historical already happened changes.
January 29, 2020Much of business is about to-do items and practical steps to follow. The below books belong to this category of getting things done but no point re-inventing the wheel
January 16, 2020Category creation is a business strategy where the company is focusing on marketing the category by focusing on the new problem in the industry more than the actual solutions for it.
January 13, 2020Survival to Thrival is a practical and rather hands-on guide for founders, investors and executives that are in the middle of enterprise startup growth.
December 12, 2019The path to great discoveries and success is not always paved with grit and specialisation. Generalist may be slower in life to bloom but more weird and wicked their world become the better they tend to perform compared to specialist.
September 26, 2019Serial entrepreneur Jurgen Appelo has managed to put together a practical guide that gives you the latest tools and practical knowledge for a high growth venture. The book is packed with agile and lean community techniques and best practices.
September 1, 2019The book consists of independent articles organised under different themes. The structure gives an updated overview to the topic.
The variety and quality of the content
varies by the author but overall it’s a topical tome that can benefit both startup and established brand builders and managers alike.
RegTech is a relatively new term that potentially can be used in respect to regulative processes in any sector, not just in the FinTech arena. Its earlier forms have been focused on streamlining compliance and reporting processes, often by means of digitalisation.
August 22, 2019For established companies to survive in future they need to overcome innovation barriers and utilise three tier structure for different level of change.
August 19, 2019Some individuals have a large impact on society and Thank you for disrupting is about their big ideas and underlying thinking.
August 15, 2019Entrepreneurs disrupt the status quo! David McCourt embraces entrepreneurial revolution that results beneficial change for the majority and disrupts the status quo for the incumbent players.
August 13, 2019Sometimes it’s good to go back to basics. Crypto field is getting too large to follow it all by…
August 9, 2019Scott Kupor’s new book belongs to the must-read category for every founder who needs venture funding. The book walks through the funding process step-by-step and explains the logic and pitfalls along the way.
August 7, 2019Norm Laviolette shares his wisdom and some industry knowledge that is useful in business but also in regular life. If improv is hard so is his message as well. Not because the topic is difficult to understand but because the things sound so obvious and simple, yet so hard to carry out in practice.
August 5, 2019Being smart involves the why question in the beginning. Why are we doing what we are doing?
May 13, 2019Ilmastopolitiikkaa kuunnellessa asiat ovat hyvin yksinkertaisia. Hiilidioksidi on kaiken pahan takana ja nyt on enää kyse siitä kuinka suuriin…
April 20, 2019Teos käy läpi tekoälyn ja koneoppimisen eri käsitteitä, tekniikoita, toimintamalleja ja sovelluskohteita. Konseptuaalisista periaatteista siirrytään lähemmäksi käytäntöä sovellusalueita unohtamatta
April 17, 2019Bloombergin nimi on tuttu lähes kaikille. Miljardööriin on lähes mahdotonta olla törmäämättä tavalla tai toisella. Hänen tarinansa on kuitenkin…
April 9, 2019Daavid vastaan Goljat taisteluissa uudet toimialarajoja rikkovat startupit ovat varteenotettava uhka nykyisille pelureille. Toisaalta vanhoilla yrityksillä on muutamia ässiä hihoissaan, jos ne pystyvät käyttämään niitä.
April 3, 2019Kasvuyrityksistä tuttu kokeilukulttuurin periaate saa jalansijaa myös kolmannen sektorin toiminnassa. Merkittävä osa lahjoituksiin ja avustuksiin nojaavasta sektorista tukeutuu yhä vanhakantaisiin toimintamalleihin.
March 22, 2019Pysy kurssissa kannustaa sijoittajia keskittymään pitkään tähtäimeen ja unohtamaan päivittäisen markkinoiden kohinan ja houkutukset. Kirjan nimi on Boglen ohjenuora, jota hän on noudattanut elämässään ja myös Vanguardia rakentaessaan.
March 22, 2019Mitä sellaista näet katsoessasi ulos ikkunasta, joka on näkyvissä, mutta muut eivät sitä näe? Tämä Peter Druckerin kysymys on kirjan esseiden pohjana yhdistettynä Frances Hesselbeinin johtajuuden ohjenuoriin.
March 22, 2019Rosenin mukaan valmentava yrityskulttuuri on ihmiskeskeinen. Ajatuksena on valjastaa koko organisaatio toimimaan valmentamisen hengessä. Hyvä johtaja tukee alaistansa työn toteuttamisessa ja pysyy poissa päätöksenteosta.
February 5, 2019Yleisneroja kutsutaan joskus renessanssi-ihmisiksi, mutta usein heitä pidetään jokapaikanhöylinä tai eksentrikkoina. Leonardo de Vinci on yleisneron perikuva ja ehkä…
January 28, 2019Vapaa kilpailu on kohta pelkästään teoreettista ainakin Yhdysvalloissa. Tepper ja Hearn paukuttavat tilastoihin ja tutkimuksiin tukeutuen, kuinka Yhdysvallat on unohtanut kuluttajan edun ja lähtenyt edustamaan isojen yritysten asiaa.
January 7, 2019Mitä tarkoittaa omistaminen maailmassa, jossa tulostamalla saadaan identtisiä kopioita alkuperäisistä, operoidaan asteroideilla ja muilla planeetoilla ja elämä on merkittävissä määrin digitaalista?
October 28, 2018Kaikki tekevät huonoja päätöksiä. Myös maailman tunnetuimmat sijoittajat, joista viisitoista on poimittu esimerkiksi ja opiksi muille. Bonuksena kirjoittaja kertoo myös omista kokemuksistaan.
September 30, 2018Alasta kiinnostuneilla harrastelijoille, sijoittajille ja etenkin rikostutkijoille konkreettinen ymmärrys asioista on omassa arvossaan. Teos lähtee hyvin yksinkertaisista perusasioista ja askel askeleelta ohjaa lukijaa lohkoketjujen maailmaan.
September 30, 2018Ammous käy läpi rahan historiaa, talousteoriaa ja –historiaa pakaten sivut täyteen asiaa ilman harhapolkuja tai epäolennaisuuksia. Kirja asettaa Bitcoinin oikeaan viitekehitykseen ihmiskunnan historiassa, taloudessa ja vaikutuksessaan tuli se lopulta menestymään tai ei.
June 19, 2018Nyt tarkastellaan varainhallinnan ja vakuutusalan tulevaa myllerystä. Lyhyitä artikkeleita monelta alan toimijalta, toistoa on paljon ja kirjoitusten laatu vaihtelee. Joukossa on helmiä, riittävästi pohdiskeltavaa ja uusia näkökulmia läpikäymiseen.
June 13, 2018For the humble, curious or just plain bored I lay out the basics of entrepreneurial startup building
June 4, 2018Being prepared does not make you less surprised nor stop the second-guessing. This is the feeling of cryptocurrency mania…
December 20, 2017Megatech yrittää tuoda esiin muutoksia ja mahdollisuuksia, mutta myös uhkia, joita seuraavat 30 vuotta ovat tuomassa.
December 18, 2017Out of Our Minds pelastaa monen päivän. Kirjan teesinä on luovuuden monet muodot ja kuinka vähän hyödynnämme kaikkien potentiaalia.
November 16, 2017Internet-ajan legenda O’Reilly pohtii muutosta muutaman vuosikymmenen tapahtumien kautta. Kirja on kartta ja samalla metafora viestille. Se auttaa navigoimaan…
October 29, 2017In the banking field, the first bank has adopted virtual currency technology (Ripple) to its interbank and intra-bank operations overseas. This enables fund transfers with significant cost savings and faster delivery times.
May 15, 2014Nation states may face a serious risk in the future. They might need to start to land from the stratosphere and act like regular people and businesses: live by their means.
April 7, 2014Globalisation with decentralised and distributed nature of Internet era currencies provide paradigm-changing disruptions to the status quo. Central authority and top-down decree based control systems are harder to defend. Bits and bytes do not obey geographical and political boundaries – for they are in essence artificial in nature.
April 6, 2014Every disruptive technology provides a window of opportunity to create new large players that eventually become incumbents themselves.
March 28, 2014Our greatest excuse is time. Either we do not have enough of it or we have too much of…
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