Startups

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 …

There are many times I heard the advice that you, who are new in the startup career, should think big.

And I agree, it is important and maybe it’s what defines a successful startup success. To make real changes in the world. Many people compare thinking big with make lots of money but it’s not the …

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. …

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, …

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.