I need to buy a 2nd hand car. Conundrum: I aslo need to have — at least — a tiny bit of trust in the person to whom I’ll hand over 5 figures. I’ve seen 9 cars, so far ALL salesmen have lied. From the “small” lie (“mixing up” the…

What is most likely to be the seed for a successful web business? Most would probably say an idea or a great team. Vijay Anand thinks not and argues that what really matters is to start by finding noticeable pain points that a sizeable audience would pay to see removed. Here is what it looks like when Vijay puts it down into steps: Step 1: Identify your audience Step 2. Identify their value system Step 3. Listen, observe and note pain points Step 4: Understand the business economics of your customers to know viability Step 5: Find out if there is more than one customer that you can target. Bonus point if there are more such clusters. Step 6: There comes the idea…

Sometime ago Thomas Pastro, Tom Rothwell and I were debating if and how the Facebook reign could come to an end. Could Facebook rapidly and completely disappear from our lifes, very much like the search giant Altavista did in the late 90s? Monetisation Can Facebook monetise its gigantic social data set…

I’m obsessed with problems. When I hear someone complain about something I can’t help but to think about a solution, a “better way”. …