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First the good news: Brussels is convinced, something like EU-Inc will come. Now the bad news: Politicians will create a solution that won’t be useful for founders and investors – unless we stay actively involved in the details. We need your help!

In his first presidency he was verbal shit-posting and looking what sticked and rotated people around him until something fitted. This time he comes prepared and is very intentional about what he says and does.

Chapter 1 of a Sci-Fi short story i wrote

Uncapped safe notes misalign incentives in first rounds… let me explain why

Europe is special to me as I consider myself a proud European, but damn we need to talk. Europe please wake up.

In February I made my first business trip to India. Three weeks deep in the Indian tech ecosystem. My summary is simple: I feel like the world needs an update how we view India

The hard part now, is to get mindshare with customers.

Our calendars are packed with meetings. We communicate mostly in 1on1on1on1 trains. Nobody is happy. Nothing gets done. Can we fix this?

A Sci-Fi Short Story

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Its easy to start fundraising, but most people struggle closing their round. Especially now. Why? I try to give a few mental models and a bit tactical advice.

I use apple’s keyboard “text” shortcodes to setup a lot of things i have to type regularly. It’s easily one of my favorite productivity hacks!

The goal of this article is to break down how i make investment decisions in the hope that it helps founders to see their fundraising effort from the “other side”.

I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees – maybe this article helps you avoiding this

Over the years i met several people that left quite an impact on me and in many cases helped me along the way. I tried to summariz...

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This article is based on a comment of mine to a HackerNews question. Thought it might be useful to explain it here a bit more in d...

Maybe… This anxiety isn’t anxiety it’s just your raw excitement that you are misunderstanding. This creeping imposter syndrome jus...

Hey folks, I haven’t been blogging for quite some time, so everything is a bit rusty for me, but i thought this article might be u...

This blogpost is part of a small series of posts that cover the basics of startup metrics. My personal goal is to help early stage...

As a consultant for analytics i see a fair share of integrations of analytics tools. One of the most common mistakes is how people...

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I usually I blog about Angellist but I have shown this “lifehack” to so many people that I thought it’s worth it’s own blogpost...

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It’s fair to say that Angellist is the most exciting (web/mobile) tech startup in 2013. Even before they launched syndicates, earl...

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How to be the perfect startup mentor? I don’t know. But following the best practices mentioned in this article I got personally at...

Everyone is doing pitch training. Almost no-one does training for the mentoring session, but this is where most startups get the m...

There is a lot of talk going on about the endurance and struggle that startup founders go through. How long the hours are, we all...

There is an energetic discussion going on in the Web-Tech Startup World. Each city wants to know - “Can we become the next Silicon...

Fortunately I was able to tell this already to many people in person. But a quick public blog post might help to clarify and simpl...

These are crowdaggregated pictures from Syria (across basically all social media channels). No media publisher inbetween. Authenti...

@bgmasters created an awesome series of blog posts covering his notes of Peter Thiel’s startup class CS183. Personally i try to re...

There is all this talk going on about Path uploading address books and privacy here privacy there. I understand the fact that Star...

Every epoch in the history of humanity had a raw resource that became the key to commercial success that time. Similar to companie...

Last week @robfitz asked me on short notice to join a panel at #foundersexchange about what first time founders shouldn’t do. I qu...

Since the launch of platform, Facebook has the approach of shipping features early, very early. They ship first, ask later and doc...