(One Way To) Meet Busy People

Here is another practical tip (after my last post which covered todos): Something I learned the hard way…

The 10X Question

You surely heard of “Moonshot Thinking” — the fabled breakthrough way of thinking. In (formerly Google) X‘s own words:

You might have heard of the famous saying “Culture eats Strategy for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner”. You can strategize all day long, if your (corporate) culture doesn’t support your efforts (or is even diametrically opposed), you won’t get anywhere. Want people to…

A little while ago I had the great pleasure of hosting Guy Kawasaki for Singularity University’s Global Solutions Program (here’s the full video of his excellent talk).

Before he went on stage I told him that I read his first book “The Macintosh Way” years ago and really…

In manufacturing there is something called “The Bottleneck Effect” (or more academic: Theory of Constraints). The idea is that you typically find a bottleneck somewhere in your supply/manufacturing chain — a machine which doesn’t keep up with the inputs, a delivery choke point, a laborious…

One of the more curious side-effects of Silicon Valley-Mania are countless startups which seem to solve no apparent problem at all. Or as Pablos Holman recently said in a talk at Singularity University: When founders run out of problems to solve, they start making problems up.

As a quick followup to my last post on “Finding Problems”, here’s another conundrum I see many entrepreneurs struggle with: We spend a lot of time, energy and resources on the first version of our product. We pour our heart into making it, interview potential customers, tweak the user interface…

The following guest post is from a good friend and fellow Heretic Matej Novak, a copywriter with a deep passion for language and branding.

In high school, I played bass in a band. We had this one song with a long, meandering, improvised section towards the end…