My journey from founder to coach
For nearly a decade, I have been coaching a few other successful entrepreneurs consistently one on one. But in Summer 2022, the feedback I got for my coaching sessions changed. While earlier it was “super helpful”, now several people used the word...
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The Lost Art of Selling
I love growing companies. I love this so much, that I have done nothing else for the past 15 years, with companies like TravelChannel, DocMorris, Qype, 9flats, avocadostore. Sustainable growth...
Basics for Organizing a Startup
A couple of days ago I was keynote speaker at an EO Accelerator meeting. I was sharing my experience as an entrepreneur in building fast growing companies. While preparing my talk I realized how the...
in Wired UK: Taking startups cross borders
This text is a slightly longer version of my contribution to the May 2012 edition (http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/05/how-to/scale-into-other-markets) of WIRED UK Taking companies...
Painting your own painting
This is a very short post but it contains an essential guiding principle for investors in dealing with CEOs. At this years Annual Meeting at Berkshire Hathaway, someone asked Warren Buffett and...
My three favourite Buffett & Munger quotes.
I am a regular visitor to the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska. I don‘t go there because I hope that something magic rubs off, but because it is a lesson in sanity...
Entrepreneurial Fads
It is surprising how quickly entrepreneurs tune into the latest trends. As a group, we seem to do no better than other humans in our judgement. Remember "Second life", or the now gone "beta" era?...