VC red flags: Partners to avoid
I saw this post on LinkedIn by a seasoned entrepreneur, and it said: “First-time co-founder, chasing VCs, investing 1000 hours in pitching, gets no value. Second-time founder, meets a VC once and stops pitching...
Tagged: Startups
How to Get the SaaS Startup Market Size Right
I have read a lot of pitch decks in my life, especially recently while helping many startups in Sydney. I noticed that one chapter most startups fail in their pitch deck is actually one...
How AI will kill dating services
One of the most popular services online, from the beginning of the internet, has been dating services. I recall that already in the late 1990s, when the internet had a low reach of just...
Falling in love with our own ideas
One of the main reasons why startup founders and entrepreneurs need experienced advisers is because we tend to fall in love with our own ideas. In fact, every business owner, senior manager, and even...
Why surveys are the best way to make mistakes
If a flight ticket to Mars cost $100, would you join the journey? I’m sure most of us would answer “yes” to this question. Does it mean that we have now validated a...
Collaboration: the one thing that all startups need to improve and do
Last week, I sent a quote to a large European client for Facenition, our startup. I wouldn’t have known about this RFP (Request For Proposals) if a Berlin startup, which operates in the same...
Facenition update: covid19 related use cases, scale up to Europe update and more
I wanted to update you on our Facenition progress. At the moment because of the Covid19 situation we decided to improve our communication and issue a sort of weekly email update to my close...
Necessity is the mother of all inventions – use the covid19 crisis as an opportunity
Lots of people are in limbo state but actually I think that a crisis can give a really good motivation to do things and improve – “necessity is the mother of all inventions”. I...
Achievements during the covid19 lockdown – 26 March 2020
Today was a really good day – both business wise and from self-sufficiency point of view. It started from an omelette made with veggies collected from our garden which is sort of a daily...
Startups documents – templates pack
This is a live blog articles in which I will share all sorts of startup documents templates. You need to let me know if anything else is interesting you. Note – they fit with...
Startups need (not) to learn from chimpanzees
There are two major differences between us humans and chimpanzees, which are giving us a huge advantage over them. Startups and business people can learn a lot from this observation. Chimpanzees are highly intelligent:...
Object Oriented Programming is usually not the best choice, especially not good for startups
Have you ever tried to tell a beginner developer, that Object Oriented programming (or any other tech which is in the main stream opinion) is bad? Young students are finishing university and automatically doing...
Goodbye Google – how and why to get off Google Products
Google is a very problematic company, in all levels: they spy after users[1], they use dodgy techniques and they don’t follow our society code of conduct (the laws)[2]. In many countries they are fined...
Add a new sender domain to an existing POSTFIX mail server – a step by step guide
In this guide we will add, step by step, a new domain sender to an existing POSTFIX mail server: say your existing server is sending emails on behalf of example.com domain [the manual to...
Build your own outgoing mail server on Linux
This is a step by step guide how to build Postfix as an outgoing SMTP Mail Server Ubuntu 18.04 / Debian 9.9 Stretch Setup. [Download PDF version] [Download DOCX version] Postfix is a Mail Transfer...
How to assess the potential of a .com idea/venture?
I have been looking at the evolution of the .com as a .com web veteran to set some high level thumb rules for assessing new ideas. When assesing new ventures, I would take that...