My Nomadic Travel Pivot

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....

June 21, 2014

Link: Wakeup Hero Feature Test: Hero Call

Wakeup Hero Feature Test: Hero Call » wakeup-hero: At Wakeup Hero we’re big fans of the Lean Startup methodology. As a result we test our assumptions before building a finished product. One of our assumptions is that a personal wakeup call (dubbed the Hero Call), is a nice and effective way for our users to make sure they get out of bed when they have something important to do (such as an exam, a meeting, air travel, etc)....

April 26, 2013

Importance of Selling Your Vision in Lean Startups

An important success factor when running a Lean Startup is your ability to pivot when you discover key information about your business. As a general rule you can expect that your original product idea is not what potential customers want. Hopefully you will be able to discover what they really want, and then do a successful pivot. As you probably know, a pivot is when your startup has to abandon its whole or at least parts of its product, but still being true to the original vision....

October 29, 2012

moov goes moo

I just ordered a few business cards for moov.co (my somewhat stealthy startup-project). I decided to get them from moo.com, since I've been happy with the cards I've gotten from them before. Take a look at the design: What do you think? Anyways, if you need any cards for your business, startup, or just to enhance your networking, you should also check out moo. They let you order in small quantities (from only 50 cards, vs the industry standard of 250 cards), and you get to pick different designs for the back of the cards if you want to....

October 4, 2012