Over the last few years I have been living in a bunch of different places and countries, usually for 3 to 9 months in each place. Yet I felt that I didn't get to see enough of the world moving at this pace. For some reason I thought that visiting every country in the world before I turned 30 sounded like a good idea. Call it a quarter life mini-crisis or whatever....

I've been using Unblock US for a while to access Netflix content from different countries for a while now, and for most of the time it worked really well. Until a couple of days ago, when it seemingly got stuck on Danish Netflix, which is generally not so good. Due to the fact that I share the same IP address with about a hundred neighbors, and one of those neighbors has started to use Unblock US, the service was unable to figure out which of our accounts was in charge....

Watch the talks from Habit Summit for free » startupletters: With the thousands of apps and startups appearing every day, it is difficult to predict if a product will flop completely or become the next Snapchat. The one thing that successful products tend to do really well is creating habits. After some time you use them without even consciously deciding... Did you miss the Habit Summit this week? No worries, the talks are already online and available for free....

Two days ago my good friend Nir Eyal and Ryan Hoover published Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. And what a fascinating read! Let me start out by giving you a little piece of context. I have been following Nir's work for the past two years, and for the better part of that time I have been helping him managing his now massively popular blog. I have also attended multiple of his talks, and have even given a talk on the topic myself this previous summer....

Over the years I've heard and read a lot of advice on how to get a technical co-founder. Having a mostly non-technical background myself, I've been facing the issues of having a "great" startup idea without having the technical chops to build it myself (although I have more programming experience than most business students). In the last year or two a lot of the advice have centered around learning to code yourself....

Earlier this month I returned from a 9 day trip to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where I attended Global Startup Youth (GSY) and Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES). In short, GSY is a Startup Weekend-esque event (on steroids) with 500 participants aged 18-25 from more than a hundred different countries. GES is the brainchild of the Obama Administration, aiming to promote entrepreneurship across the globe and building ties between the US and muslim countries....

The newly launched LinkedIn Intro, the iPhone Mail plugin that gives you the power of LinkedIn right in your inbox, is great in so many ways. It's still a little buggy, but it's a great start. One of the main annoyances for me after installing it was that the shortcuts for Archiving a message had been turned into shortcuts for Trashing them instead. This is because LinkedIn Intro is added as an IMAP account, which has this behavior by default....

I'm giving away one free ticket to Pioneers Festival in Vienna, Austria October 30-31, 2013. All you have to do is to sign up for my newsletter (Startup Letters) using this link before Saturday at 11.59 pm EST. Spread the word to any of your friends that might be interested. They will thank you later!

Sure, there are a lot of similarities. Only Apple is producing devices running iOS, just like they did not want to licence their Mac operating system to OEMs. Google is licensing Android freely, and most noteable OEMs are focusing on Android (apart from Nokia and Blackberry), just like the case was with Microsoft Windows. If you subscribe to this logic, you probably think that Android will eventually end up with 80-90% market share, while Apple in the end will serve 10-15% of the market (the high-end)....

Pocket has long been one of my essential apps, both on my phone and on my Mac. Everything I want to read I add to Pocket. Whenever I have a few moments to read and get inspired (like when I'm walking somewhere, on a bus/train/plane or waiting for someone) I turn to my Pocket app. This way I always have something interesting to read, while at the same time not interrupting my workflow when I first see an interesting link....