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Walborg isn’t just a coworking space. It’s a “creative growth house”—a deeply curated entrepreneurial ecosystem built to kickstart a new

What does an fighter jet, Messi, Zuckerberg and General Patton all have in common?

When working in the software industry it is very common to not know exactly what the finished product or feature should entail. Requirements might be fuzzy when starting out, the initial idea might turn out to be suboptimal and when dealing with clients…

Well, clients change their minds about what they want all the freaking time! This inherent uncertainty gave way…

Simple rules for reducing stress and burnout.

As covid hit and people who where used to work in an office had to start working remotely, Slack (and similar tools) became the defacto standard for communication. A “ping” became the new knock on a shoulder and people became frustrated when a reply delayed.

All of this lead to availability stress followed by burnout. However, I feel that my team and I have come up with…

Lessons learned from a decade working in and managing remote teams

2020 was the year that Covid-19 hit the world like a hammer. Restrictions and social distancing forced Working From Home to become part of the new normal.

For many managers, this was the first time managing without being able to physically meet their team, and they struggle when unable to “grab a quick coffee” to check catch issues that might be brewing (no pun intended).

In my experience, having first worked

A story of stretching too thin

It’s the summer of 2019.

I’m sitting at my desk at Spotify’s HQ in Stockholm, working hard to justify my relatively high hourly rate. My mind is not 100% present though. It’s also trying to device new ways to recruite more developers to my own company. And it’s trying to figure out a way to find a gig for one of our consultants living in Berlin.

Suddenly I hear the all too familiar ping of an incoming Slack message. It’s the guy in Berlin asking something about his vacation days. It’s a perfectly normal…

A tool to find actionable insight

In 2012 Gary Keller released a book called The One Thing. In this book he argues that you can reach extraordinary results by focusing your efforts at the most important thing. At it’s core is the focusing question, which helps you find the lead domino in whatever area you are focusing on.

The question itself is as follows:

– What’s the one thing you can do such that by doing it everything else is either easier or unnecessary?

At the surface it seems like a trivial question…

For fun and profit (?)

My first angel investment was made April 6th, 2019 and at the time of writing this I have a total of 12 companies in my angel startup investing.

Does this make me qualified to speak on angel investments? I think so. But as always, do your own research, and don’t take the words from a random person on the internet as objective truth.

Also, keep in mind the beginning of my career as an angel investor included the last two years of one of the greatest bull markets in history and, it’s no guarantee that what used to work for me in the past will work for you in the future.

With that out of the way, let’s get into it…

If someone had given me ten cents every time I heard the sentence in the title, I would be a very wealthy man. However, that sentence is a perfect example of the worst type of feedback you can give someone.

Before we dive into why that sentence isn’t useful as feedback the and the How of giving feedback, let’s take a moment to look at the Why and the What.

WHY BOTHER?

The Britannica Dictionary states: “Feedback is helpful information or criticism that is given to someone to say what can be done to improve something such as a performance, product, etc.” [https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/feedback]

Notice that while it does contain the word criticism…

Faster alone, further together

I’ll never forget the last time a founder told me that. Call it Ego, if you want. I certainly do! But I promised myself that I would never miss out on a deal due to my ticket size being too small again.

Easier said than done when you are a small-ish angel investor. After all, the money you have in your bank account is all you have to play with(never borrow money to angel invest!).

However, there is an established practice of syndicating deals. That is, multiple angels join forces to invest from a single legal entity and thus reach a larger collective ticket size. This concept is generally referred to as an SPV.

SPV is short for Special Purpose Vehicle, which …

Throughout a startup’s journey, the role of the CTO goes through four different stages, and each stage requires different types of leadership. Knowing what stage you are in and where the focus should lie is key for both CTO and founder.

Below I’ve modeled the four key stages that a startup, and consequently that a CTO goes through. And while the actual numbers can differ between companies, the stages are usually the same.

In this blog post, I will do a deep dive into each archetype, with a discussion at the end where I provide advice for founders (should you even hire a CTO?) and aspiring CTOs….