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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
Is the community manager clueless?
Today I heard a very curious comment from a Chief Innovator Officer. He was very upset about the fact that their community manager was totally clueless to what was going on in the company. It got me thinking about the position of community manager as head of Social Media in
Corporate storytelling in the age of social media
Corporate storytelling narratives need a new approach. If you read most of the literature out there on the topic, the feeling is that of old school press release storytelling command and control. Cold, unemotional narratives are praised against personal emotional stories. One of the major arguments is that corporate people
Using Social Media isn’t storytelling
It’s funny to see how so many companies mix the concept of social media and storytelling. I was recently watching a video by Dow Chemicals, on how their scientists where using storytelling. It ended up being a talk on how they empowered their scientists with social media and allowed them
CanvasDropr and the Bulletin Board of the Future
Once upon a time before I had anything to do with tech and startups, I was a copywriter in an ad agency. I worked incredibly closely with an art director, spending at least 50 hours a week in the office and the rest of my spare time at home emailing
14 things to avoid in your startup pitch deck
I recently gave a talk on Mastering the startup pitch deck (see below). It’s not the first time I’ve been critical about startup pitching. I try to put my money where my mouth is, so apart from the usual tips, I came up with the typical things I see on start-up
Finding the Disruptive Element in Higher Education – Part 2
I wrote the other day about new ways of approaching higher education and how this sector is ready for a serious shake up. And it got me thinking about innovation and disruption, and how much of it we actually need to make a huge impact on the way higher education
Finding the Disruptive Element in Higher Education Part I
It’s time for a major shake up in the education sector. Technology has so far been complementing higher education (Facebook, anyone?) but hasn’t really altered it fundamentally. You still stay up all night writing essays, pay huge amounts for fees and course materials and drink more in three years then
Data roaming? French Connection solves what carriers couldn’t
Data roaming is a problem. Specially if you are a geek. I believe the number one worry for most people that travel abroad on business is if the hotel has WiFi and if it does, will it work? There is indeed such thing as data addiction. We’re being push towards
Hy! Berlin startup competition
I tend to be quite bullish about startup competitions, mostly because so many of them are done really wrong. But I have to say, I’m excited to see what the hy! Berlin team is pulling off. To start with, they’re offering the winners a prize of €15,000 plus several services,
