One of the strongest memories I have from being in the army is practicing meditation and…
“First rule of leadership: everything is your fault.”Hopper, A Bug’s Life
ou need both the white and the black keys to create your own music.
You’ve probably heard the expression MVP, minimum viable product, releasing a product with the minimum amount of features yet enough to validate the users willingness to sign up, use, pay etc.
It’s easy to think that the only way to make your pricing more attractive is to lower the price, but you are much better off optimizing your price.
When selling or doing market research, one of the most important rules is to stay…
For my Innovation Fika on March 24th, I had the great pleasure of having Marie Trogstam as…
They say bad carpenters blame their tools, and I don’t know HOW many times I have heard sales people and other complain about not having a good enough presentation to use…
If you know that there is any kind of “elephant in the room” in your business case, if you keep on getting the same questions over and over again, if you are sick and tired of people “not getting it”, then I have the best trick EVER!
Too many people spend too much time on ideas that are too small and too insignificant for…
The world is constantly changing, and so we need to change with it. “The right way” to do it 10 years ago is probably not the right way today.
We tend to get fixated on the amazing, awesome things, the huge achievements. Which is great of course, but…
This week’s theme has been all about competition, and if you didn’t catch the live…
I wrote a blog post about my thoughts regarding entrepreneurship and what I think…
Mark Twain wrote “Excuse my long letter, I didn’t have time to write a short…
You have probably heard this one but considering the current situation in the world I…
If you are the only employee, imagine you were 10.If you are 10, imagine you were 100.If you are 100…
Every time you try to enforce a change, your brain and body will try to resist…
Have you added remote working skills to your resume?Have you added remote working skills to…
For those of you that have seen the first Star Wars movie you might recall the scene…
Nothing drives results as a healthy sense of urgency.
You don’t have all the answers. You might know of some answers that you don’t know, but your biggest issue is that you don’t know which answers you don’t any idea that you should, or could, know.
We live in a world where personal beliefs and conviction has been allowed to lead, leaving reason and common sense behind.
Being reasonable, listening and weighing different opinions just hasn’t been cool or interesting…
Mark Twain wrote “Excuse my long letter, I didn’t have time to write a short one.”
t’s the 99 times you hear “No thank you” before someone says “Yes please”.It’s…
I keep on repeating this, but focus on the main thing and do that well. Don’t spread yourself too thin…
When pitching it’s important to try to come across as both rational and serious, but at the…
And by that I do NOT mean “take no prisoners — kill them all, be ruthless”.On the contrary, I…
One common mistake when designing a service forgetting to factor in the wait.
“Do the best you can until you know better, Then when you know better, do better.”Maya Angelou
Listen, learn, grow, improve.
(originally posted on LinkedIn)
What’s your excuse for not being creative?
A business needs to make money, anything else would be naive to believe. We all need to pay…
When I was in my early 20-ies (and much thanks to a good friend of mine Niclas Josefsson) I…
Time management is the art of writing to-do lists, booking meetings with yourself in your…
One of the most common ways to find new ideas is to look for problems and solve customer pains. I agree that it is a very effective way of working systematically with creativity and creating new solutions.
Push the envelope, exceed the limit, think bigger. What would your organization look like if…
Have you celebrated a mistake lately? What’s your latest goof?
We all want to feel special, picked and worth your attention. Think about that…
You are desperately seeking customers, you are desperately seeking funding, you are desperately seeking a partner….
The problem with desperate is that you tend to make do with ANY customer, ANY funding, ANY partner.
When me and my sister Deborah B. Lygonis (now CEO of Friendbase AB were running our first company, a children’s game publisher, we had our sights on the BBC and all of their wonderful games.
Doubt will kill momentum, halt decisions and leave you with nothing.
The Pareto Principle, also called the 80/20 rule (named after the Italian economist Vilfredo…
Have you forgiven yourself for those mistakes and wrong turns you took? or are stuck in a guilt…
One of the things I have heard oh so many times from large companies is the “but we can’t work with…
Some people seem to be so darn lucky, things just fall into their laps and when they do, they always…
Goals + process) x work = success
Today after giving a lecture I got a good question: “every time I get an idea I…
I am sorry to break your heart, but I’m not in love with your product/service.
So you founded a startup with some friends, had a friend or an offshore developer put together an app, you downloaded a few template agreements, copied someone else’s terms of agreement and privacy policy for the website / app, and off you went.
Another Innovation Fika, another guest. For the Wednesday of March 31st in the week themed Competition, I invited the sales & business coach Michel Laporte Godorn for a short coffee chat.
Competition is one of the best ways to improve your business and reach new and more customers.
When rehearsing your pitch or presentation, make sure to do it standing up. It will make your…
According to a survey from survey firm Clutch from 2018, 61% of small businesses don’t create budgets for…
When the person pitching says “And we have no competitors” that might sound really good, but I’d…
So you’ve spent a week or two on holiday, thinking about life. You might wish you could do something you can’t do today. It could be anything really, Play the guitar, sing, do your own bookkeeping, sell, code, speak a new language.
We spend so much time trying to figure out our value proposition, our position relative to…
Who? (has which problem)
How? (are you going to solve it and make money)
Why? (are you doing it? Why you? Why now?)
(another clip from my Earth Day Network talk)
I know it’s a cliche but good ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, anytime.
There is a lot of talk about the new challenges leadership faces in the new era we have…
I keep hearing “when we get back to normal” which I can understand as a saying, but it also has a couple of built in flaws.
There is no going back, time moves forward and so do we, so how much we ever would like to “go back…
n these days a lot of people are having to re-evaluate their life choices, some because they have…
Early stage founders tend to do a lot of things because they CAN, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they…
Are you trying to help people get what they feel they want or need? or are you trying to help them avoid or fix what they fear?
The two basic human driving forces behind most (if not all) decisions are want and fear.
When the person pitching says “And we have no competitors” you know they haven’t…
Stop limiting yourself by thinking “what if this doesn’t work” or “It probably won’t work” as a way to lessen the…
We are more than one year into the pandemic situation and the only thing we can be sure…
When writing that long email or sending that long message, take a moment to think about…
Making something seem simple is very seldom easy. And just because a solution is simple, doesn’t mean…
It’s easy to let your feelings take over and make decisions based on emotions, but to be…
When starting out it’s tempting to offer everything to everyone in one part pure enthusiasm over running your own business a and one part desperation to make money.
However offering everything to everyone most often results in you not selling anything to…
The logic is simple.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow and learn as if you were to live forever” Gandhi.
n today’s sustainability oriented world, it’s becoming more and more important to connect to the UN Global Goals, the SDGs. Not only because it’s the right thing to do for the planet, but actually also because it is…
Here’s the deal.
Richard Branson says his biggest motivation is to keep challenging himself and that he sees life…
I used to say that there is a huge difference between being at work and actually working.
In the pre-covid world, we had become really good at “being in an office and making it look like work”. Walking around, preferably carrying a folder or…
