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Is collaborative consumption a hype? - Impact Startups
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Thoughts on creating a startup and making a positive impact. Sustainable startups, pirates and social innovation. Live from Cologne, Germany. Is collaborative consumption a hype? Collaborative Consumption has been all around us. I think CC has been around for a long time. Busses, trains, libraries are (government-supported) collaborative consumption spaces. Taxis, hotels, car rentals or even restaurants are private ventures, but also part of the “sharing economy”, if you will. We won't send you spam!
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Time is a resource, too. Time for growing. - Impact Startups
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Thoughts on creating a startup and making a positive impact. Sustainable startups, pirates and social innovation. Live from Cologne, Germany. Time is a resource, too. Time for growing. The thing is – the longer I wait, the bigger my client list will become, the higher the number of subscribers will become, the bigger the social media fanbase will become. (I admit, this “let it grow in the background” possibility might be a luxury of a non-consultancy online startup. As it is now, with the time I have I w...
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Are you too busy acting like a startup to actually work on your startup? - Impact Startups
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Thoughts on creating a startup and making a positive impact. Sustainable startups, pirates and social innovation. Live from Cologne, Germany. Are you too busy acting like a startup to actually work on your startup? I’ve been to several conferences and workshops lately and what I’ve realized is, that there are a select few, who I meet in every event! Well, I wrote a bit more on this in the new European Entrepreneurs Blog whiteboard. Subscribe here to get the newsletter:. We won't send you spam! My sustain...
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European Pirate Summit 2012: Putting Cologne on the Startup Radar - Impact Startups
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Thoughts on creating a startup and making a positive impact. Sustainable startups, pirates and social innovation. Live from Cologne, Germany. European Pirate Summit 2012: Putting Cologne on the Startup Radar. Wesome European Pirate Summit! I’ve long awaited the second edition of European Pirate Summit. After I’ve missed the premiere last year! The venue stayed the same, which is Odonien – a scrapyard theme park meets DIY-electronics. With fire. Look up these pirates. Which provides on-the-fly encryption ...
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To bootstrap or to seek funding, that is the question - Impact Startups
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Thoughts on creating a startup and making a positive impact. Sustainable startups, pirates and social innovation. Live from Cologne, Germany. To bootstrap or to seek funding, that is the question. With incubators, crowdfunding spots and more financing opportunities popping up (especially in Germany I’ve noticed this), many people are looking to get funding via these financing models, so to get a faster kick-off and perhaps beat the competition early in the game. But which is better? Previous post: “...
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Are you an animal? - Impact Startups
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Thoughts on creating a startup and making a positive impact. Sustainable startups, pirates and social innovation. Live from Cologne, Germany. Are you an animal? While reading Paul Graham’s excellent article “ How to start a startup. What do I mean by good people? One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. Could you describe the person as an animal? If you think about people you know, you’ll find the animal test is easy to apply. Call the person̵...I have ...
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Appification of Books? Closing the gap between blogs and books. - Impact Startups
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Thoughts on creating a startup and making a positive impact. Sustainable startups, pirates and social innovation. Live from Cologne, Germany. Closing the gap between blogs and books. Today was one of those days, where I received a short email from a company and a stream of ideas came rushing to my head! Did you ever have one of those moments? Then I re-visited an idea I had a year or two ago: That sometimes I just don’t bother reading long books until the end (if it’s not good, why bother? 8211; so IR...
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Resources - Impact Startups
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Thoughts on creating a startup and making a positive impact. Sustainable startups, pirates and social innovation. Live from Cologne, Germany. Here are a bunch of (mostly online) resources for impact startups. Recommended articles (not just random stuff I found on the web, but actual articles I liked). Are you a pirate? Article by Michael Arrington in TechCrunch; find out if you are a pirate. If you need to think about it, you might not be at that stage yet. How to start a startup. News for Impact Startups.
