Tesla may finally fail to outrun the financial realities of normal companies. The company reported negative results over the first quarter of 2019, and it’s share price has dropped to a level not seen in years. By any measure it has been a remarkable run for the company that was…

It seems that the media have missed something pretty crucial in Tesla’s latest quarterly report: the tanking of the sales of it’s high end Model S and X. This post is a bit late, because I’ve been waiting for people to write about this. But it seems nobody is. …

Crucial resources to turn your venture into a success are talent and networks. Get ready to convince the smartest, most knowledgeable and best-connected people to join you in your quest to revolutionize the world. You not only need these people on your team, you also need them as advisors. I…

When you see loads of start-ups you start to discover patterns. I’ve probably seen over a thousand start-ups by now, most of them in cleantech. One of the patterns emerging is Founder Narcissism, which is especially prevalent when a start-up is working on an idea that feels like it will…

For much of 2017 I’ve been working with at Cyclotron Road. Since I’ve moved back to Europe after the summer, I’m not formally engaged with the team anymore. But I thought it would be good to tell startups in my network about the work they do. Because I think it’s…

Founders often ask me: Do you think my idea is good? I tell them all the same thing: It doesn’t matter what I think. There are only two things that matter: whether YOU believe your idea is good, and whether you can find customers that want to buy your product…

Dear Tim Cook, Today you wrote: ‘As responsible corporate citizens, we are also proud of our contributions to local economies across Europe, and to communities everywhere.’ That is a great statement. And you have made quite an impact in the past years to show that Apple is really serious about…

Startup Accelerators have taken the world by storm. Pioneered by Paul Graham and Jessica Livingstone in 2005 with Ycombinator, they have grown into an industry of it’s own. …