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The Importance of Founders Staying Focused 19 Dec 2012 | 07:50 pm
The more this topic has been discussed the more founders i find making this grave mistake. As a founder of a company, you have one and only mission, to make your venture work. Everything else is noise...
The Seven Deadly Sins of a Startup 16 Mar 2012 | 03:37 am
There are so many things that can kill your startup, from pure chance down to very specific mistakes. Through my course i have done all conceivable mistakes one could do. I have learned from this expe...
My US Visa Got Denied 7 Mar 2012 | 05:07 am
As i mentioned in my previous post, i had a US visa application going, which didn't go so well. Continue reading →
Are You Building a Website or a Startup? 7 Sep 2011 | 01:41 am
We have an idea, we discuss it with a few close friends and start working on it. We are building for months and when somebody asks us what we do, we fondly reply "I have a startup". But do you?... The...
How To Startup In America 26 Apr 2011 | 08:23 pm
There is much frustration, confusion and disappointment about foreign entrepreneurs finding a legal way to start a company in the United States. For many this issue is considered so hard that freezes ...
You Need To Be In San Francisco 6 Apr 2011 | 09:23 pm
In my efforts to find the right place to found my company i traveled to all the major High Tech Hubs, New York, Boulder CO and of course San Francisco. In this post i describe my experiences and why i...
How Lean Startup Forced Me To Leave My Country 20 Mar 2011 | 07:11 pm
Working in an isolated environment without any external interaction can be a really dangerous thing. I developed my product in such an environment believing i knew everything, creating the equivalent ...
Enter Silicon Valley – Final Preparations 19 Mar 2011 | 09:44 am
So, in our path to enter silicon valley we discussed how to get started, create your first presentation and what was the process of taking the final decision to make the leap. In this post we will exp...
Enter Silicon Valley – Making The Leap 20 Feb 2011 | 10:36 am
A month has passed since i started getting educated about options for growing my startup. I had formed a gross view of the startup world locally, in Europe and globally. Now i had to think about what ...
How To Learn Anything Faster 16 Feb 2011 | 05:02 am
It is a common trait for geeks to catch up with new stuff fast. A new programming language, a new technology, a social skill (!)... Whatever that maybe as long as they are interested in it, they get p...
