The Open Source Disruption

Yesterday I gave a talk at Singularity University’s Executive Program on Open Source Disruption — it’s (somewhat) new content I developed; here’s the abstract of my talk:

The Open Source movement has upended the software world: Democratizing access…

Feature Creep

It’s the classic mistake: Cramming more and more features into your product — and turning it into a bloated mess. The concept is easy to understand but hard to realize: Which feature of your product or service is truly important and which to cut from the spec?

There Are More Than Enough Problems Worth Solving

This week I spent quite some time with the leaders of a whole bunch of medium- to large-scale companies in Europe. Regardless of their industry (from manufacturing to commerce and services) they all invest heavily into their digital strategy…

Build For The Future — Not The Present

Here’s a common mistake tech entrepreneurs make — they build something based on the technology they experience today. By the time their concoction hits the market they are woefully outdated.

No Maps

Never forget: When you receive advice, when you read articles about how “entrepreneur X did it”, when you hear successful (and not so successful) entrepreneurs speak at conferences — whatever they tell you, whatever advice they give you, whatever wisdom they part on you: