A celebrated software company had managed to accumulate 600 vice presidents by the time it reached USD 4 billion in revenues…
Export is a model game, forget the product
Use some of those 75% of the resources you spend on innovating your product on the business model instead. Particularly in exports.
21st century corporate innovation tools
Familiar with the fear of failure or lack of speed in corporations? Although hard to accept, as a corporate innovator you can learn tremendously from startups. Here is why. Corporation vs. startup A corporation is a permanent organization designed to execute a repeatable and scalable business model that they have built over time. In a corporation ‘fear of failure’ inhibits …
Engineering and product are still key to the very best companies
Do you find the following questions and issues interesting? If they were commented by Marc Andreessen? Could Zuckerberg have created Facebook if he weren’t younger than 30?About the philosophy that software is eating the worldCan Spotify and Netflix be successful?What areas are particularly promising in the very near term?Is the perspective different as a VC than as an entrepreneur?On Apple’s …
What’s rocking in Copenhagen
Think about the big European tech startup cities, and London, Berlin – maybe Amsterdam, will probably come to mind. However, the Danes form an emerging scene that’s well worth paying attention to. A rich vein of technical and design talent is building a new generation of companies with an ambitious international outlook. And they are capable of growing these to major …