Monthly Archives: August 2010
Tech support lifehacks
I worked for Mercedes Benz’ excellent customer service program during my undergrad. It was a fun job with great colleagues and I learned a lot from it. I derive massive lifehack value from these times until today, because it is … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Hacks, Rants
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Come and work with me
I have the best job in the world, and you can have some of that, too! We are looking for two people (Intern and a General hands-on person) at Seedcamp in London. You will have more fun and you will … Continue reading
Posted in Housekeeping, London, Seedcamp
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Tell us a story, please!
It’s quite amazing how many founders and company leaders are making amazing new technical solutions or products but seem to have difficulty explaining the core narrative of the product themselves. Now, if the person who built the product has a … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship
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Even the big ones fail.
I love Wave – if only for very few usecases. Sad to see it go, but great to see Google admitting the problem and striking a line. Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Google
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Never be pitchin’
On the “VCs turned Entrepreneurs” panel (subtitle “actually Entrepreneurs turned VCs turned Entrepreneurs”) at Mini Seedcamp London last week, Max Niederhofer let lose some of his wisdom regarding the perpetually pitching entrepreneur. In his view, instead of “always be closing”, … Continue reading
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So entrepreneurship IS rocket science
At the end of the day, I’ve really come to believe that you can’t predict success based on where a missile is pointed pre-launch. Instead you have to assess the quality of the targeting system (the team) and the density/size … Continue reading
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