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If you don’t feel comfortable with it, drop it
We’ve all experienced a proliferation of startup programs across the geography. With new programs come more mentors. Some are more valuable than others. And we all know this. There are two sides to mentoring. The advice received and the implementation of that advice. Most mentors will give contradictory advice. This
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Do you want to change your company’s corporate culture? Learn how now!
Hello, everyone! We’re very happy to announce that we’re partnering with our good friends from Improvement21 to deliver a new workshop on CultureHack in London! What is this CultureHack thing? Well, we will be focusing on Change Management, Culture improvement and Storytelling in a business context. So, essentially, how do
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The malleable nature of stories
One of the most powerful aspects of stories is their malleable nature. You can tell a story today and if the story is good enough, it will be told long after you created it. Sometimes the story is so good, it will be told for generations to come. What is
The ultimate guide to designing a presentations
If I charged $1 for every time someone asks me where have I found the images I use in my presentations I would probably be extremely wealthy by now. So, I’ve decided to show the process I take to design my presentations, from conception to final slides. I hope this
5 common storytelling mistakes
Last week I came back from a pretty fun conference in Rijeka, Croatia. It was my first time in Croatia and despite having Croatian Airlines losing my suitcase for a whole three days, I had an incredible time. For starters, I was really impressed by the Rock Paper Startups conference
The Buddhist startup talk
Here you have the slides and video of my recent talk at the Bitspiration Conference in Krakow. The topic is a little bit unorthodox but the goal was to inspire people to regain life balance and to enjoy every single moment of their day. I hope you enjoy it
Are we riding a lack-of-reality bubble?
For a long time I’ve seen this happening. There seems to be two planes of existence in the start-up world. One is what I call the trenches. This is where most of my start-up friends live. They wake up in the morning, start coding, go to talk to customers, they
Example: Organizational storytelling at Frankfurt Airport
I travel quite a bit and the worst part of any trip is the process of going to the airport. Most specifically, your trip through Security. Out of all the bad airports you can go through, Frankfurt is notorious for being one of the worst. The funny thing about the
Want to collaborate on my new book?
Hello guys! I just wanted to drop a quick note about the new book I’m writing on Organizational Storytelling. I’m doing an experiment and, if writing a first book wasn’t hard enough, I’ll be crowd-funding it through one of my favorite start-ups, Libros.com. Before we kick the campaign, I wanted
The three stages of a startup pitch
Many entrepreneurs claim to have the best next story, truth is, most pitches are full of shit. Not intentionally, mind you, but most start-ups don’t realize how ineffective their communication is. It’s not until you remove the blind fold with an active audience that they understand how broken it really
Bitspiration crowdfunding the start-up prize
Some of you know that I have a very good relationship with Poland. Last year a bunch of friends got together and launched a new conference there called Bitspiration. We brought amazing speakers and we essentially designed the conference from speakers to speakers. It was a very homey setting and
Examples: Organizational storytelling in IBM
Sometimes it’s easier to showcase an example of a great use of organizational storytelling. This IBM movie is one of them. Actually, it’s one of the best I’ve seen so far. It’s plainly brilliant, astounding and brings focus to what it’s important. The IBM campaign is formed by two clips,
Transmedia storytelling
Transmedia storytelling is probably one of the hottest topics within the storytelling field right now. It’s not surprising due to the proliferation of digital media channels and the natural consequence, the rise of the prosumer. What is Transmedia storytelling though? I do like the definition from Wikipedia: [is] the technique
