Upwards and onwards
After another year of meeting many interesting people, I took the time to list some of my learnings. I usually keep some of my notes in my Google Keep, but I thought it could be useful to share some of them more publicly. These are in no way best practices or even accepted practices for all I know. At best, these are my personal mental notes based on mistakes and learnings. Let s kick it... Read…
Hi there, Dexter! He s an eleven months old Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, and is the latest addition to the four-legged family. Tollers are named for their ability to entice or lure waterfowl within gunshot range, called tolling .The dog s appearance is similar to that of a fox. As a matter of fact, many people look twice because many people believe I am walking an actual fox when we re out.…
When Microsoft(Tay experiment), Skype, Google, Facebook (Facebook M) and Amazon (Echo) start to push the needle on intelligent (chat)bots, something is about to change. Not considering it to be so much of a revolution, as rather a strategic direction towards a future in which intelligent bots will continue to permeate our software, leading a new and next generation of personal assistants. A big…
2015 sure was an interesting year for unicorn VCs. 2016 will be an even more interesting year for the club of unicorns, as they might come face to face with reality and be forced to take on a more humble moniker. All hail the squirrels. With the systemic corrections on pre-IPO valuations, such as Square, Dropbox and others; it seems to be in the unicorn s best interest to remain private and avoid…
Don't follow your passion. Follow the problem, because great companies are built by solving big problems. Not by being passionate.
While coaching some tech startups, I noticed how eager people get to set up a Bitbucket and fire up the development IDE only to start banging away at the keyboard. Producing lines of code and generating commits seems to be the metric for measuring how fast your product is growing. But is it? Technology and development languages have become so accessible, many tech oriented people no longer take…
Because there was no virtual reality market overview, I compiled one. Please let me know any errors or omissions, I may have made. I will try and keep this overview updated for your reference in this post. You can always find the latest version here. This post may contain an outdated version of the VR AR Market Overview. Please visit the dedicated VR Landscape page for a latest version.
With the introduction of the smart-phone, the digital journey completely changed. Our mobile journey is fractured in an endless stream of impulse-driven and fragmented moments. In these moments, mobile users and consumers make purchase decisions. Capturing these moments will be the strategy for winning mobile.
Since 2013, AI investments have jumped 302% and more than 170 start-ups made a bet on the AI bandwagon, with over $309m invested in over 40 new deals in 2014.
One of the more relevant lessons learned after running my startup the last few years, is to no longer be one of the monkey’s in the startup circus. The bright lights of the startup craze lure in thousands of founders, not realizing they’re just a product in someone else’s show. While I do value the bells and whistles that come with a startup ecosystem, I care more about the people who are the…