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Learn more about startups, remote work, funding, software and useful tools I use. In the blog posts I share my experience from the past 10+ years.
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0 viewsI believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees ā maybe this article helps you avoiding this
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0 viewsOver 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...
Read more...Joining hypergrowth startups š¬
0 viewsI am writing this for a friend joining an early-stage breakout startup (year 2; $200M+ valuation). I wrote it as bullet points as...
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0 viewsI want to preface this by saying that I have only a mild case of ADHD, eg I donāt take any medication. I get regularly asked about...
Read more...How I think about Code Management
3,010 viewsYou might have the worst codebase in the world. It was written by people who had no standards or didnāt care about code quality. H...
Read more...Quick tips for hiring remotely
551 viewsYou are most likely already experienced with hiring so think of this more as a quick FYI focusing on hiring remotely⦠What issues...
Read more...Close your office. Now. How to operate your startup under lock-down.
4,664 viewsWhat a week. The US declared the state of emergency. Many leading startups closed their office. And I expect that all startups in...
Read more...#fyi: How founders can avoid drive-by-management
5,530 viewsSuggestions by founders, managers, or anyone with authority in a startup, might often be misunderstood as directions or decisions...
Read more...Refactoring larger legacy codebases
1,488 viewsThis 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...
Read more...A model thatās mental
2,483 viewsMaybe⦠This anxiety isnāt anxiety itās just your raw excitement that you are misunderstanding. This creeping imposter syndrome jus...
Read more...Managing Remote Teams - A Crash Course
46,465 viewsHey folks, I havenāt been blogging for quite some time, so everything is a bit rusty for me, but i thought this article might be u...
Read more...The simplest and most important dashboard for early stage startups.
24,515 viewsThis blogpost is part of a small series of posts that cover the basics of startup metrics. My personal goal is to help early stage...
Read more...Easy, but easy to f*ck up. 3 Rules to Setup Analytics Tools correctly.
4,444 viewsAs a consultant for analytics i see a fair share of integrations of analytics tools. One of the most common mistakes is how people...
Read more...A Primer on Startup Metrics ā Which Analytics Tool to pick.
22,142 viewsAs a analytics consultant I am working with a lot of startups and help them in the topics of metrics, analytics, retention and gro...
Read more...Donāt drown in email! How to use Gmail more efficiently.
328,947 viewsI usually I blog about Angellist but I have shown this ālifehackā to so many people that I thought itās worth itās own blogpost...
Read more...Why Lean Startup sucks for startups.
18,930 viewsIf you go to Lean Startup events you will find first time founders, consultants, accelerator managers, r&d people, enterprise intr...
Read more...AngelList is the NASDAQ of our generation.
4,114 viewsItās fair to say that Angellist is the most exciting (web/mobile) tech startup in 2013. Even before they launched syndicates, earl...
Read more...Drafting your first investment round.
2,376 viewsThe topic of investing is omnipresent in our startup world. Sooner or later most startup founders look for external funding. And i...
Read more...Why the future needs a brandname.
2,556 viewsThere is a disenchantment in our generation. We are still sitting on our lonely planet without space travel nor flying cars or at...
Read more...Startup Mentoring Sessions: How to be a decent, maybe even good startup mentor.
3,208 viewsHow to be the perfect startup mentor? I donāt know. But following the best practices mentioned in this article I got personally at...
Read more...Startup Mentoring Sessions: How to get the most out of it.
7,555 viewsEveryone is doing pitch training. Almost no-one does training for the mentoring session, but this is where most startups get the m...
Read more...The Founderās Lie About Comfort Zones
22,337 viewsThere is a lot of talk going on about the endurance and struggle that startup founders go through. How long the hours are, we all...
Read more...About the āotherā Startup Hubs.
771 viewsThere is an energetic discussion going on in the Web-Tech Startup World. Each city wants to know - āCan we become the next Silicon...
Read more...Why i am leaving my own company.
2,875 viewsFortunately I was able to tell this already to many people in person. But a quick public blog post might help to clarify and simpl...
Read more...How global media communication changes in a transparent world
36 viewsThese are crowdaggregated pictures from Syria (across basically all social media channels). No media publisher inbetween. Authenti...
Read more...Peter Thielās Startup Class Notes as PDF
15,972 views@bgmasters created an awesome series of blog posts covering his notes of Peter Thielās startup class CS183. Personally i try to re...
Read more...My Addressbook? Keep it. Telephone numbers are a disgrace to our generation.
586 viewsThere is all this talk going on about Path uploading address books and privacy here privacy there. I understand the fact that Star...
Read more...Sh*t! Twitter is exciting - again!
1,360 viewsEvery epoch in the history of humanity had a raw resource that became the key to commercial success that time. Similar to companie...
Read more...The things first time founders doā¦
4,300 viewsLast week @robfitz asked me on short notice to join a panel at #foundersexchange about what first time founders shouldnāt do. I qu...
Read more...The unannounced updates to Facebookās Social Plugins and how to use them!
230 viewsSince the launch of platform,Ā Facebook has the approach of shipping features early, very early. They ship first, ask later and doc...
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