Thank you Steve Jobs
As a person in the mid thirties, born around the same time Steve Jobs founded Apple, today feels like a very sad sad day.
Steve is a icon for a lot of people as a visionary and an entrepreneur, I been growing up in his world and he is one of the people that have inspired me greatly to take on my own visions and believe that anything is possible.
Mr. Jobs – you left a world that you changed, a world you for many made better – you will always be a part of history and live on in the billion of users of your iconic products – for everything you have given – Thank you!
Great interview on Bloomberg with Scott Weiss, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (VC).
He talks about software enterprise and how the big giants are changing – I love his take on the growing “bubble” as he states “its an actual boom” because of the CEO of big companies that normally answers their emails with a handwritten note to their secretary, now is running around with their iPad and wants to see the companies stuff on it – who said sharepoint for iPad 
I actually is starting to experience it my self through our business – the CEO demanding that we do something with that social media stuff.
Sitting in my hotel room in the north of Sweden just on the border to Norway where I am attending a conference about CRM and dialog.
After enjoying the first evening in the great company of Michael Lewis the sales & marketing VP from Awareness (@bostonmike) I just needed a quick check of my twitter stream and saw @bussgang´s tweet about – takin the VC money rap – something I had to check out.
Absolutely hilarious and fun especially after an evening discussing different start-ups and scaling/funding strategies they might have.
Check it out – remember to dive into the lyrics
Takin’ VC Money (Money Cash IPO’s) by Smixx
Through working in the start-up environment with our own start-up – Mindjumpers, the start-up environment around social media and collaborating with other start-ups in the entrepreneurial venture I am connected to – Akasha Ventures, I believe I have gotten a pretty good look into the world of start-ups.
It´s for many – the land of dreams and anything is possible. I often gets shocked over the lack of reality from people thinking that making a successful start-up is just a good idea and then faith. People – its God damn hard work!!!
Through the last three years I have seen the look in peoples eyes, not really getting why I work so hard – well he must just be a weird guy that loves to work, he probably just hate to hang out with friends, family, see the world and enjoy him self – and this could not be further from the truth. read more…
Sitting in Copenhagen airport, the Delta plane to New York is delayed with 3 hours, which is not great, but well it leaves me some time to study the program for the Internet Week New York, my whereabouts in the coming 7 days.
I am looking especially forward to some of the following topics.
Its an argument no doubt about it – it might be just playing with words, but talking to a lot of different people from striving entrepreneurs, corporate executives or young energetic and hope full students, I just wants to share my thought on “Challenge your comfort zone”.
I see people walking around with the book or the writing on their forehead – need to challenge your comfort zone – and I think its all wrong for most people.
I believe that if you are managing your comfort zone the right way and are able to spend most of your time in your comfort zone – it enables you to do your best – are we not at our best when we are in our comfort zone? read more…
Yesterday I wrote about some inspiring resources for entrepreneurs to check out, one of the being TechCrunch, one of my favorites on TechCrunch is TechCrunch TV.
Founders stories from TechCrunch TV, interviewing Mike Walrath that got into digital ad sales, started Right Media, which became an online ad exchange that he sold to Yahoo in 2007 for $850 million.
Really interesting to hear him talk about his first mistakes as an investor, falling for the project or product and forgot to look at the entreprenaurs skills.
Being an ambitious entrepreneur you will need to spend your time on inspiring source every time you have the chance!
The list of media sources like FastCompany, Wired and inspiring leaders and authors like Seth Godin and Tony Hsieh is long but I have tried to narrow it down to 7 resources which I spend a lot of time on – with the sole focus of entrepreneurship, start-ups and venture.
The list goes from individualist, large blog sites, medias to one of the largest social media platforms.
This is my list – please fell free to ad to it in the comment field.. read more…
In the book “Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steve Johnson he uses a chapter to explain what the scientist Stuart Kaufmann called “The adjacent possible” and it have just got stuck in my brain ever since I read it – so there for share the thoughts.
Basically, The adjacent possible is a way to describe a frame in innovation and creative thinking that slashes a great big hole through the believe of creative thinking is about special people going into a room and having great thoughts, because the frame is that you can only be innovative or creative in the combination of the possibilities existing or more important the possibilities that you know of and constant challenging these boundaries.
In his book, Steve Johnson writes, “The phrase captures both the limits and the creative potential of change and innovation” and goes on “The Adjacent Possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself. Yet is it not an infinite space, or a totally open playing field.” read more…
Through my work with Mindjumpers I have had the pleasure of working with Jakob Algreen-Ussing from Akasha Ventures.
Jakob invested in Mindjumpers in a very early stage, which by now is almost 2 years ago. During those two years I been working with Jakob in shaping Mindjumpers (he holds the position of Chairman of our non-executive board) and working with him supporting other start-ups in the Akasha portfolio.
Now Akasha is moving forward to be supporting even more entrepreneurs, the following press statement is in danish.