From the monthly archives:

May 2010

Looking for a hard driving entrepreneur who wants to be a part of building up the new Swedish Google imperative!

May 30, 2010

We are a group of investors /entrepreneurs with the right connections, a brand to be used with an extensive existing client base, facilities in the best location in Stockholm, that are planning for a launch of a Google Professional Service Provider in Sweden. We are looking for hard driving entrepreneurs skilled in Google Apps, Analytics, […]

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Entrepreneurial gut feelings – bad or good?

May 29, 2010

In a new report from McKinsey they point out that leaders will be biased by their gut feelings and due to that they have to be able to judge the impact of the gut feelings. The technique suggested is to answer following questions and adjust the decision process after the answers: The familiarity test: Have […]

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Either you innovate or you’re in commodity hell

May 18, 2010

Sam Palmisano, CEO IBM, recently said “If you do what everyone else does, you have a low-margin business. That’s not where you want to be”. Innovation is the wheel on creating differentiation and long term value, but is not just something that can be added, it is integrated part of the learning, the culture, the […]

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It’s The Angels’ Time

May 14, 2010

That was the theme a few days back at 2010 Angel Capital Association Summit in San Francisco and the title of the speech by angel investor and blogger Basil Peters, who asserted that VCs are essentially dinosaurs saddled with too-big funds at a time when entrepreneurs can create companies cheaply and quickly, sometimes over a weekend. What […]

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Place analytics

May 11, 2010

This is part of a semantic analysis of terms used to refer to the City of Stockholm in blogs over the past 8 years. What you see here is in fact the top level view of the data. It’s based on a very small sample. I didn’t have the time to set up a crawler […]

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Online community

May 10, 2010

Great presentation here from Maria Sipka over at Linqia:

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New demands on leadership

May 9, 2010

In a blog post on Harvard Business review Bob Johansen write that it will be new demands on leadership in the future of cause accompanied with very predictable comments on the theme business as usual. He point out that leaders now and in the future has to be more agile at the same time strategic and […]

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Company is a force for good

May 5, 2010

Today, when moderating a table at founder alliance one of the delegates just came from a meeting with Bransson who dropped the line “Company is a force for good”. Worth thinking about. Another delegate at today’s meet-up was Robert af Jochnic who gave his view on how to run a successful business, his stated: 1. […]

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Moderating the billion sek table

May 5, 2010

Sitting with a cup of coffee preparing myself for a long day in Stockholm, the morning start with moderating a table at Founders Alliance with their billon SEK entrepreneurs about what´s creating and driving growth, challenges and obstacles. It will be a lot o fun, I will get back with a report later on. Then […]

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Unconferencing challenge traditional training companies

May 2, 2010

My old friends i London runninga session, unplugged and unconferenced, if you can join do that it will be an experiance. Reda more at http://www.modcommslimited.com/blog/2010/04/may-meetup-lceg-the-unconference/

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The flying geese

May 2, 2010

In the Spring, when you see geese heading North for the Summer or South in the Fall, flying along in ”V” formation, you might be interested in knowing what scientists have discovered about why they fly that way. It has been learned that as each bird flaps its wings, it creates an uplift for the […]

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