Nothing Ever Happens

Over the past ten years, I have traded my strong intuition for a fairly complex, systematic and bullet-proof approach to hire and promote employees. Critical events have shaken my life radically (for the better) and I have discovered again my incredibly powerful intuitive forces. I have learned (still learning) to listen to them and decode […]

Dear readers, I really wanted to do this piece before I leave you for my summer retreat with my family to Silba paradise tomorrow. It’s a quick post .. will put in more when I’m back cause this is something really important, a revolution in front of our doors. It’s the start of the end […]

If you read only ONE article this year, you shall read the See-Through CEO (Wired April cover story). I consider it as one the most important articles of the year. (Read also the related: Microsoft case study and The Office case study)
Despite having always intensively used and worked with the newest internet technologies myself, […]

..a bike like this and a city like this.
Copenhagen is the city of uber-design and the city of bicycles. (80% of people own a bike, 65% ride it every day, posing a real danger to pedestrians; a great presentation: Copenhagen - City of Bicycles).
Here’s the best of both worlds, an object of desire: trioBike (inspired […]

Terry Semel (profile), CEO of Yahoo since 2001, has resigned today. Co-founder Jerry Yang, 38 (profile) will be the new CEO, and Susan Decker the new president. Markets are happy (stock performance). Strange for a company like Yahoo that its CEO resigns without notification and a proper replacement on board. This is either a sign […]

You don’t. You supply a purpose that appeals to a certain group and it emerges by itself. Value is created by the network itself, its participants. A social network, according to Okular, is not created but enabled by platform creators.
As a creator of several social networks, I find this post really intriguing and relevant.
Especially I […]

One of the best articles and case studies on entrepreneurship I read so far! Jonathan Abrams was the phoenix of the dot com crash and signaled a new era in silicon valley. He invented social networking and got all the best and the brightest names from management (tim koogle, former ceo of yahoo) to VCs […]

I just got 10 invitations (2 left) for Dopplr, the highly announced social traveling service currently still in private beta.
Anyone wants some? (on a “first reply on comments, first get served” basis).