Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off

Posted: April 30, 2013 | Author: phil | Filed under: Passion | Leave a comment »

Fireside Chat With Nasty Gal CEO Sophia Amoruso

Posted: February 6, 2013 | Author: phil | Filed under: Passion, Startups | Tags: Interview, Nasty Gal, PandoMonthly, Sophia Amoruso | Leave a comment »

cool girl. amazing interview.

Ben Horowitz on courage

Posted: December 10, 2012 | Author: phil | Filed under: Passion, Startups | Tags: Andreessen Horowitz, Ben Horowitz, communication, courage, Foundation, product, vc | Leave a comment »

Another amazing Foundation interview.

This time Ben Horowitz of the VC firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Key learnings:

- get the product right

- communication structure within the company

- courage

- don’t appeal to VCs

- board meetings: are we on track?

- software impacts the world (industries)

- no!

founders should get high on their own supply

Posted: November 8, 2012 | Author: phil | Filed under: HipHop, Passion, Startups | Tags: 2dehands, founder, high, noah, scarface, supply | Leave a comment »

The past two days I’ve been to the NOAH Conference, met a lot of people and listened to a couple of talks/pitches.

Besides all the noise there was one pitch that I actually really liked. Maarten Beucker Andreae, CEO of 2dehands.be, referenced to the legendary Scarface’s lesson number two: don’t get high on your own supply.

While Scarface was probably one of the most influential movies in HipHop as well as Maarten’s favorite movie, he claimed that lesson number two is not true for founders.

Founders should get high on their own supply!

I believe that this is one key factor to success. There are millions of business ideas out there. Choose one that you are passionate about. Be your best customer!

Here’s some more inspiration.