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The Five P Model for Rapid Startup Evaluation
TL;DR: Product + Problem + Profit + People = Potential. Does your idea have what it takes in all five Ps? Simon Klose presenting at the hackathon TBD Malmö held in February 2012. Recently, me and a...
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Look for cofounders, not ideas.
It takes two to tango. One of the consequences of the 5P-model for startup evaluation (Product + Problem + Profit + People = Potential) is that finding the right people is much more important than...
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Take a step back
Photo by: F Delventhal As an entrepreneur working with a startup at the early stage it’s easy to get fixated on one particular idea. The problem with this is that you’re basically laying all your eggs...
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The trillion dollar startup
By: Antti Kultanen Steve Blank recently wrote a blog post about how Facebook is killing Silicon Valley. His argument is that too much money is “wasted” by being invested in startups with relatively...
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The incredible Mojang and the acceleration of disruptive innovation
Photo by: Elias Gayles It’s not every day you see a news article in Swedish on Hacker News, but the latest profit numbers from Swedish indie game maker Mojang came in yesterday and the startup...
View ArticleEveryblock shutting down
A little surprised to see Everyblock close the door. Everyblock was a site in the superlocal category, focused on neighborhood news. I am myself working on a side project in the same area so I’m...
View ArticleWhat phase is your company in?
The post about speed paradigm got me thinking about how a company changes over time. Entrepreneurship research speeks of three main character types needed in different phases of a company’s life: The...
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So many questions
Photo by: USFS Region 5 It’s never a straight path. Get used to it. While working in an established business certainly can be a challenge sometimes, I don’t think it compares to the constant...
View ArticleSummer is coming
Even though the winter winds of February has a tight grip on the Nordics, summer is getting closer and closer. My goal is to be ready for launch with my side project before the summer. It’s frustrating...
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Why are startups hard?
David Goehring Is it because we’re trained and educated in to a different way of thinking or are they inherently hard? This post from Derek Sivers C Dixon got me thinking. From the first day of school...
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