Taking the safe route and doing things that we feel comfortable about is always tempting, in both our personal and professional lives. However, it can kill our productivity, growth and success. Stepping out of our comfort zone is important for learning and growing. But what is a “comfort zone”? Our comfort zone is a behavioral […]
The company that changed the music industry will now be a movie! Netflix has started an untitled series about Swedish startup Spotify telling the story of how two young tech entrepreneurs, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon with partners, started a small-scale company that came to become one of the world’s leading music services. The series […]
A new study by Women On Boards UK reveals that progress on diversity at boards is “painfully slow”. Less than half of listed firms outside of the biggest 350 companies in the UK have met targets for women in their boardrooms and a shocking 54% still have no female top executives, research has revealed. The report […]
More than 200 startups, founders and investment funds have signed a manifesto, a call to join forces around European startups. One goal is that Europe should have to 10 technology companies each valued at more than Euro 100bn by 2030. “We, founders and startups, corporations, investment funds, industry groupings and other innovation ecosystem stakeholders, are […]
“Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible”. The quote is a journalist writing about another journalist’s morally questionable relationship to a source. The quoted journalist is always provocative reporter and author Janet Malcolm who has died […]
I met Puhoop when I was also working at Google. I always admired the silent way her efficiency mysteriously shined through and the unbelievably balanced mix of self-confidence and modesty she emitted. I later found out that Puhoop has an amazing story to share, going from engineering to marketing, from India to Amsterdam and from […]
Eva Kaili is the most influential EMP in EU’s Digital Policy, according to the Influence Index 2020. Working closely with Margrethe Vestager, she is one of the top politicians in Europe apt to talk about how EU is working to protect our digital rights as citizens and what the big tech companies should expect (including fines). Talking […]
