Audio bursts of a business artist

Practical tools for design thinking and business model reinventions.

We are tilted towards giving the benefit of doubt to people and believing in them. Defaulting to the truth makes our society to work. If we were to suspect everything and everyone we could not cooperate.

You cannot schedule playfulness in your calendar but you can create space for it. And you can learn to become more playful and curious. Like any skill, it gets easier with practice.

People relate to stories. They are memorable and relatable. They are easier to remember. They are easier to pass forward and explain. They are entertaining and fun. They simply work.

Motion is a great excuse and illusionist. It gives you a sense of accomplishment but leaves you cold in the results. Choose your metrics wisely and observe the output.

Start talking and get used to hearing your voice. This is the decade of audio for all of us.

Coachable people are willing to learn. They have the inner drive to become better. They admit they are not perfect but they are willing to do the work to improve.

Entrepreneurship is always hard. Now, it’s just extra hard. Keep that in mind when you’re communicating and interacting with people. You don’t know what they are going through.

You want to delight your customers and make them happy. It’s not about costs, it’s not about limited resources.

Products can have features but features are not products. New technologies are usually first novelty products but then they become implemented widely and they become just part of regular solutions.

If you only have a shareholder’s agreement that applies to everyone you are calling for trouble. It’s impossible to agree upon anything and getting signatures to company decisions.

When you’re operating in the unchartered territories the success rate is very low. You can improve your odds by adding numbers and that’s the VC model. From a founder’s perspective, the game is different and you need to embrace this.

If it is your company and you are the CEO, you’re the Batman. Everybody wants to talk to Batman. He’s the main show. Batman does the heavy lifting but with the support of others.

The funding is a derivative of the real issues. When you have the right components in place the money comes to you rather easily.

Focus on the thing that makes or breaks your future. Worry about the other stuff later.

Investor money is a big temptation. Bootstrapping is hard. It has its advantages but you may appreciate them only later.

It is like compound interest. So easy to grasp but so difficult to comprehend and follow in practice.

The 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.

When it's time to move on and leave the unreceptive environment behind?

Whether 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?

The hardest thing is to think, test and learn.

There are ways to have a virtual experience with your browser that is more than just sitting in a zoom-call.

The hidden dilution can happen easily with convertible notes that start to pile up on each other and have different terms.

Social entrepreneur and founder of Acumen Jacqueline Novogratz calls for a revolution to reimagine how we are living on this planet in this century.

One 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.