Why you should have a Picasso mindset and not fall in love with a Tamagotchi. — A slap in the face. I was impressed and shocked at the same time when I first came into contact with GPT 2 in 2019. As someone who has written several books and articles, I thought: this system is spectacular and it will destroy my business. Now we see GTP…

12 Basic Steps Every Startup Needs — For startups, effective sales are the lifeblood of growth and sustainability. However, achieving success in sales is not as simple as having a great product and hoping customers will come knocking on your door. “Build it and they will come!” No! The idea of a genius inventor with a brilliant…

When to be scared, when to relax and how to act — According to Roger Martin, “Strategy involves making choices under uncertainty, constraints, and competition”. It looks like competition will play a role sooner or later. In recent decades, competitive pressures have increased dramatically. …

How startups prepare best for funding — Startup financing has become an industry where standards and rules apply. Different phases have different requirements. This time I will focus on early stage financing. Raising capital is a learning process that takes some time Having an idea, pitching it to an investor, and getting capital right away is more like a plot for a cheap TV production than a…

Difficult to find, expensive and demanding — One day, you will need them. But not on day one. Hiring salespeople involves several prerequisites that must be met. And finding the right person is not trivial either. Let’s start with the question of when to hire them, and then move on to who it should be.

How to maintain security, business continuity and data sovereignty — a strategic challenge — If you think this is an article for IT professionals and not business managers, you are wrong. It has massive implications for the entire enterprise. That’s why I have tried to make it readable for non-IT pros. In my last article, I showed that with the immense benefits of cloud…

Why what makes so many things possible can also be a trap — You’ve probably never heard of VanMoof. It’s a Dutch e-bike manufacturer. The style and technical innovations are ahead of the competition. An app lets users check battery status, lock and unlock the bike, track rides, and over-the-air updates make the bike smarter the longer you use it. …

Hyper-innovation resets the rules of competition — Have you ever thought of developing your own fancy software system yourself? Too complicated? Maybe not. The technical developments of recent years make it easier than ever before, with drastic consequences for the competition. Modern technologies lead to hyper-innovation Over the past decade, we’ve seen an evolution of digital technologies that has changed everything. …

How AI affects our beliefs and psychological factors determine how we interact with AI — Recently, Celeste Kidd, Professor at UC Berkeley, and Abeba Birhane, Senior Fellow in Trustworthy AI at Mozilla Foundation and Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin, published an article that should make us think. A lot has been written about biases, stereotypes, and hallucinations that generative AI produces…