Do You Need to Be a Born Entrepreneur to Build a Successful Startup?
Think about the world’s most famous entrepreneurs—Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos. These are the names we hear again and again, held up as examples of what it means to be a visionary founder. They seem like they were born to change the world. They have this superhuman ability to see the future before anyone […]
New business ventures: Every stage requires its unique leadership traits
Brilliant start-up leaders and successful collaborative scale-up leaders have different strengths, priorities, and leadership styles. Here’s a breakdown of their key differences and similarities, with real-world examples: Brilliant Start-Up Leaders – These leaders thrive in the early stages of a company when ideas need to be transformed into reality. They are often visionaries, risk-takers, and highly […]
Examples of some of the Oldest Companies in the world and what Lessons Start-ups can learn?
Instead of only looking at what some new companies are doing wrong (see previous blog), it’s probably as insightful to look at the opposite side of the spectrum into the tried and tested success stories that have been around for centuries. Some of the oldest and longest-operating companies in the world offer valuable lessons in […]
Examples of Famous Start-up Failures and the Lessons They Teach Us
To me, it’s always valuable to analyze Start-up failures, preferably some of the more juicy ones, and see what lessons they teach us. If you have a similar twisted mind, I do recommend Nico Ceidera’s failory.com and his weekly newsletter that offers stories, frameworks, and tactics that will make you a 10x better founder, according […]
Why an academic section in a practical how-to guide?
I have fond memories of my academic education. Partly as after being in more of a straight jacket during my teenage school years, it gave me control over how, what & when to study, but importantly because it was abundantly clear to me the value was not in the reproduction of facts, but in understanding […]
Why this guide, Why Now & Why Me?
There’s a lot of over-promises and incorrect advice being given online on starting a successful enterprise. This wrong advice could cost someone their life savings and importantly ruin their life ambition and dream. Therefore, in partnership with the Erasmus University Rotterdam, we decided to pull together a practical how-to guide explaining the process successful start-ups […]
