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Saying is Believing : Authenticity, ‘Hypnosen,’ and the Startup Myth
Hypnosen is great fun, but it paints a picture of the startup circus I don’t fully agree with. Not all entrepreneurs are full of shit, and pitching isn’t just a spectator sport.
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Building the Good City : One Man’s Mission to Transform Gothenburg and Reinvent Urban Renewal
My dad’s PhD dissertation chronicle’s the life long struggle of an entrepreneur hell bent on making a dent in the universe. It’s a memoir masquerading as a thesis. It’s very inspriring and I’m happy I finally got around to reading it.
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Quantum Bootcamp
Sweden has been lagging badly behind when it comes to quantum tech. Most of the funding has been provided by private players and there’s been no national strategy. That’s starting to change now.
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Things I Didn’t Know About Clinical Innovation
Over the last few months, I’ve often felt like a street-fighting urchin who’s put in a karate class; instinctively rebellious against any meddling with what’s already battle-tested. But again and again, I’ve had to accept that going back to first principles and carefully build up a new conceptual framework, has been worth the effort.
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Minding the Gap : the Case Against Anthropology in Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs aren’t looking to understand the world such as it ‘really is’. They just need to get a good enough grasp of a given context.
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Ignite, Launch, Dock : a Hitchhikers Guide to the Space Industry
Space as a vertical is as a bit of a dark horse. In racing parlance, that’s a term for a horse that is unknown to gamblers and thus difficult to establish betting odds for.
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True Learning
How do you teach entrepreneurship? I seriously doubt that it’s possible, the patterns are too irregular to be codified.
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Introducing Straddle, a Framework For Validating Startup Ideas
A good framework paves a way for the mind, making it easier to grasp a reality which will always remain chaotic in its essence.
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The Trend Towards Open Core : Evolving Strategies for Open Source Monetisation
2018 was the watershed year for the open core model, where you create value through hosted services and closed source add-ons.
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The Best of Both Worlds : How to Build a Company While Sticking to Open Source
The professor’s privilege and means that researchers can do what they want with whatever they create. Which if you’re in software usually just means you publish your code on GitHub and move on to the next research project.