Audio bursts of a business artist

You need market validation for a product/market fit. But whose opinion matters?

Eric Jorgenson has done a great service for all the millions of people who're interested in Naval Ravikant's thoughts and ideas.

If you cannot do this small thing properly how do you expect me to believe you can do the big things right?

How to balance your short-term goals and needs with your long-term vision and mission? What is the way to have a strategic mindset when you're building your business?

When Derek Sivers talks people listen. Your Music and People is one of the best marketing books you can read.

There's a fine line to lead with a vision and doing something nobody cares enough to hand over their money to buy it. The difference is timing.

Growth companies may need external investors. How to select the right investors for your company?

If your mindset is not updated beyond your own capabilities and resources it’s hard to make things work.

The centralisation and consolidation have progressed to the point that the new rebels are the old guard.

The difference between success and failure is often not in more data but in more accurate acknowledgement of the limitations themselves.

Change takes time. The results take even longer to show up. The hardest part is not to give up or change the course while waiting for the impact.

Average Joe tackles the heroism of the startup land. It unearths stories and research around how we learn, create and build.

Before you start to browse through video conferencing equipment is good to stop and think what are you really trying to accomplish.

Johan Norberg has written a magnificent book that gives insights into our current world, the state we are with all the polarisations and conflicts but also how fragile our success is, and why it is not guaranteed to last.

Startup Community Way builds on the previous book Startup Communities. It dives into the world of complex systems and their operations.

Second-order effects (or consequences) can impact your business and result in massive changes in your business model or operations. If people avoid physical proximity what are the implications that are harder to see at first?

Startup Communities is about the inspiring story and the message that you can build a vibrant startup ecosystem anywhere. If you can do it with a small 100 000 inhabitant city in Colorado it can be done elsewhere.

Early 2020 kick-started business disruption. If you were not digital-first business already do you still have a business model?

Community intelligence benefits all the members of the community who are participating without doing anything extra and making everyone smarter together.

Get together with a meaningful purpose, share the passion with others, embrace the journey together and that's how to build a community with your people.

Books to read in startup funding and growth, business management, technology innovation and society in general.

Watch out for power law and the global competition. It's not a level playing field for everyone. The best thrive and the rest survive.

Radical changes in customer behaviour because of external circumstances like coronavirus or new behavioural habits can kill your value proposition almost instantly.

2020 is the year that killed many old business models. Most of the businesses have not realised it yet.

Fundamental changes in user behaviour and external circumstances require full-stop moments to question everything and rebuild your operations based on the new realities and needs of the market.