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In a recent article, Guyi Shen claims that Lean Startups don’t work in case of a requirement for strong network effects (e.g. Airbnb, Facebook, etc.). The main critique is based on the hypothesis that instead of finding product market fit first and then scale, scaling is needed first and then find product/market fit. Either you […]

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Startups cost nothing to build The average tech startup founder is a 25 year old male ivy league dropout Startups get funded on a napkin sketch and passion A good idea wins every time Location doesn’t matter For the whole, quite entertaining presentation, see below: So you want to do a startup, eh? [slideshare id=8353197&w=425&h=355&sc=no] […]

I just stumbled upon the following article which describes Berlin as a city that is currently attracting a different set of innovator – young high-tech entrepreneurs – and compares the status of Berlin to other international locations (e.g. the Silicon Valley, London’s Silicon Alley and Paris’ scene). Being located in Munich, I have to mention that […]

Scala Exhange 2011: Lightning Talk: How to build a high performance scalable infrastructure in under 5 minutes: (by David Savage) Paremus, a provider of a modular private cloud Scala(bility) components: Scala for performance OSGi for modularity Nimble for flexibility ServiceFabric for scalability Deployment unit: XML doc called “system” (ServiceFabric slang) Construct: System = components + […]

Entrepreneurship in general: – So you want to be an entrepreneur? Don’t! – Wrong Reasons:    > Money! Get a real job instead …   > Power! You are a actually at the bottom … (employees, customer, … are all your bosses)   > You’re bored! Keep collecting your paycheck until you figure out what […]