Lessons

This week I have slowed down the work pace which has given me more time to think and reflect. New ideas pop up and I’ve taken a lot of notes.

I have always had a desire to create and produce but it’s nice to look back on the time elapsed. Get perspective on things I’ve done and think about what you …

As you may have noticed, I’ve had a blog challenge to write 100 blog posts every day for 100 days. The reason I started with the challenge was that I wanted to create a habit of blogging every day. I want to get better at writing and expressing myself in words and wanted to get over the threshold …

Today I had a pretty long 1:1 session with my co-founder and CTO, @arnklint. We discussed our plans ahead but also generally how we are feeling. This is something we are pretty bad at. It’s easily happen that both of of us are so focused on our tasks at work so we rarely take any time to aimlessly …

I’ve made an iPhone app. I wanted to learn the basics and experiment with trial & error and understand the principles around app/iOS development. I experimented with Xcode, did some programming in Objective C to reconnect to the interface after events based on the data and user input. …

A few months ago I started with some new habits.

You can read about them here: Good Habits

The routines

• Go to bed in reasonable time (before 11pm)
• No social media before 8am or after 10pm
• No snoozing
• Write daily
• No second screen when watching TV
• Meditate for 2 minutes every day

Routines would …

I have another blog where I’ve written quite continuously for more than four years. Yesterday I was looking through the posts and came up with an interesting insight.

Common to most of the post I’ve written in the blog is that they are all about me and my personal development. It is a blog about …

There’s so much to do, especially in a startup. Or in any company. The smaller the company is, the more tasks per person.

We all have some task we like to do, things we know we are good at. Then there are tasks that needs to be done, which we find less fun to do, things we’re not so good at and feel …

37signals, which recently changed their name and focus and is now called Basecamp, is a relatively small company with a great spread. They began as a web agency in 1999 and a few years later began launching their own products. Recent years have one of the founders, Jason Fried, written some books, …

This is post #22 in my blog challenge and here I am, still at it.

But I need to review how and when I write. This week there has been a lot of late nights and it doesn’t work for me to write late, I’m just too tired to write after 11 o’clock in the evening. My brain is pretty dull then, it is not at …

Nearly five years ago I quit my job. This was April 2009, I had spent two years at an ad agency (which I liked) when I quit to bet everything on a new business idea.

During the Christmas holidays in December 2011 me and my friend Jonas Arnklint started to work with what today is RevRise. We are thus two founders, but these are my lessons.

Oops, this became a very long post and a real trip down memory lane for me. If you want practical tips on speaking in public, you can scroll down to the last part of the text. Sorry, but like I said, I have promised myself to press publish.

During my first year as a freelancer I began at square one. I worked a lot.

I had some money saved but the stress and anxiety of not knowing how I would bring money to next month’s bills took a lot of energy. It was a few months filled with uncertainty and many questions. Just the case that I was …

If you are a passionate but risk-taking entrepreneur you need an income from day one and for that consulting is the best source of revenue. The reason for that is that you get well paid in a short time while you can find out what you do best, learn to be effective and to estimate your time. Among …

Last night I took a few beers and some food with my co-founder Arnklint. It is surprisingly rarely we do so nowadays. At the moment we meet 2-3 times a week and when we do, we are often too busy and eager to get things done that we don’t talk much to each other. But it’s nice and important to take …