How LinkedIn made me a bestselling author
When I joined LinkedIn in 2004 I was not in a situation where I personally needed to be found, but I did want my company to be found, so I invested in building my profile around my company. In 2015 that changed and I embarked on a completely different...
The price is what we pay – the value is what we get
The exact same product can produce very different levels of value depending on how the customer applies the technology. Some of these differences may be associated with objective factors such as the customer’s industry, location and company size, but mostly they are only associated with the customer’s organisational capability to...
My new book “Building Successful Partner Channels” is available!
“Fantastic! I found this book helpful for restructuring our channel strategy in one business line and the creation of a new channel of indirect partners. I would highly recommend this to anyone looking to learn more about the indirect channel strategy.”...
The Successful Failure (Part 2)
I learned that if you want to be an entrepreneur then you have to come to terms with failure. Take the heat, face the brutal facts and get on with life. As long as people are not losing limbs and lives and you are not behaving unethically, then there...
The Successful Failure (Part 1)
Within the first 12 months, we had signed up resellers all over Europe as planned. Each reseller had invested in a starter kit including technical training and sales training and was selling to real customers. What could possibly go wrong?...
Going Global on a Shoestring – The Final
What made Dataco so incredibly successful? How could we launch a complete LAN/WAN product line and achieve global coverage in less than two years and reach a position to sell the entire company in just four years?...
Going Global on a Shoestring – Retrospection
What made Dataco so incredibly successful? How could we launch a complete LAN/WAN product line and achieve global coverage in less than two years and reach a position to sell the entire company in just four years?...
Going Global on a Shoestring – The Start
What made Dataco so incredibly successful? How could we launch a complete LAN/WAN product line and achieve global coverage in less than two years and reach a position to sell the entire company in just four years? Some of the “unfair” advantages of coming from a small country with...
Why and When Do We Need Software Product Managers?
If a company wants to maximize the lifetime value of its software IP assets, then they need software product management....
Why management misalignment is a productivity drain
m If you are a frequent business traveler who travels alone, then you often have the opportunity to overhear other business travellers’ conversations. What do your fellow business people actually talk about? How they can make the world a better place? How they can provide better value to their...