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When I coach entrepreneurs, a part of the conversations centers around the organizations they build. Most of them have never learned that founders don't need to do everything themselves. As a...

In my own coaching sessions, my coach kept repeating: „I want you to connect to your feelings.“ I had no idea what she was talking about…I’ve always been emotional, even impulsive sometimes. Yet,...

I’ve always been a ‘self-starter’. As a kid, I learned to code by myself. I prefer reading versus listening to podcasts as it allows me to accelerate to my own speed. When I wasn’t great at certain...

Most entrepreneurs can name the #objectives in their business plan. But what are your objectives in your #life#plan? Here are 15 questions that I use to plan my new year. What were your best...

No amount of studying prepares you for entrepreneurship. "Experience sharing helps. That's why I'm telling you here in the podcast how the stations in my life have lined up so far. Why I was already...

Core beliefs determine our understanding of who we are and how we go about life or work.Entrepreneurs are no different from other people: We can have core beliefs that help us or destructive ones....

While working on Qype, the most extensive local reviews website in Europe, I was under immense pressure: VCs were demanding, we had just our second child, and I was functioning above my limits. The...

What is Stephan up to? Mentoring startups through Creative Destruction Lab Product strategy and organizational structure for larger startups. Researching sustainable aviation. Spending more time in...

(I am writing this from a cottage in Quebec with 5% battery left, so no perfect formatting...) FLIO is in process to be sold to SOS Travel SPA in Italy. If you are a user of FLIO, this means that...

As Warren Buffett has become mainstream, it is now easy to confuse the forest and the trees of the headlines. I made my first trip to the annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway in 2008 and have been...

One of my favorite bits of experience sharing with entrepreneurs is: "It's a marathon, not a sprint".And when I coach other founders, I keep telling them that it takes a long time to build a great...

Should you take advice from a guy who draws cartoons for a living? Generally not. Scott Adams, who does the Dilbert comics, is the exception to this rule. His book ‘How to Fail at Almost Everything...

I recently did a couple of speeches for founders. One was in front of 1400 people at the Bits and Pretzels event in Munich. I've found that one of the keynotes that gets the most attention is my...

There are four excellent companies who dominate how we search, how we shop, how we communicate, and which gadgets we use: Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook. The first three of these companies also...

I spend quite some time these days coaching friends, former colleagues or fellow entrepreneurs about "what should I do next". There are some interesting parallels in these discussions. Strikingly,...

Cem Basman brought this interesting article from Harvard Busines School to my attention: There is a new study out that measures the success of first time entrepreneurs versus repeat entrepreneurs....

Whenever I work with web entrepreneurs, the discussion quickly goes onto one point: What is it that your company does better than anybody else? In an era with unprecedented low barriers to entry,...