This blog explains what makes me tick; innovation & entrepreneurship, the social enterprise, my life-mission, projects, passions, who I surround myself with, and why I want to make a difference that matters.
Monday night I arranged a very special Meetup with Prof. Peter Troxler of the FabLab in Luzern and 7 other creative minds. We gathered at the big table in my office in Citizen Space in Zurich to discuss one thing: How can we best combine forces to create the #1 innovation hotspot in Zurich ? Peter [...]
Read the full post >>The very first CapitalOnStage conference is going well… very well actually: this event has been SOLD OUT for over 2 weeks! On September 14, 2011, Sander and I are bringing together 220 Startup founders from the European technology industry with 20 big-name VC’s. We keep things very exclusive / invitation-only, and also all Startup founders have [...]
Read the full post >>Geneva – July 21, 2011 It took years to decide, but last night in Geneva 164 CEO’s of the top fortune 500 companies, many country leaders from all continents, all CEO’s of the top 200 largest aid organisations, as well as US president Barack Obama, agreed on a plan to end poverty on a global [...]
Read the full post >>This post gives some insight in what Nomadworking is and how I manage myself as being a “nomadworker”. I’m typing this on my Mac 10km up in the sky somewhere between Zurich and Helsinki (peeking outside almost continuously in the hope I see that flying house they rebuild for real, based on the pixar movie [...]
Read the full post >>“Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.” (Robert McAfee Brown) By now, many corporations are making some kind of effort to transfer themselves into a so called social business; corporations that actually listen to their (new) clients, suppliers, and employees with the objective to make more money [...]
Read the full post >>Are multinational institutions in conservative industries, like banks and insurance firms, doomed to fail to deliver on its function in society as we know it today? More and more employees in big firms can’t fake their learned corporate behavior and language anymore that is originated by internal politics, such as the UBS 43-pages long dresscode [...]
Read the full post >>I have ideas. Many of them actually, every day. Especially when going to sleep and just before waking up I have loads of them, so I write them down in my RTM. Every month or so I clean up this list of ideas and edit, delete, and merge them according my feelings. Some ideas make [...]
Read the full post >>Back in 2009, when I read his book about how to obtain a 4 hour workweek, I concluded that I find Tim Ferriss fascinating. Today I’ve watched his interview (see below) with Loic Le Meur (who I still haven’t met!) about Tim’s personal life, how he looks at doing business, and how he arrived to [...]
Read the full post >>This morning I’ve read another conception of Seth Godin, who always seem to explain things as they are, even though he’s a visionary. He wrote that most companies are afraid of making big investments in unmeasurable media. But so are their competitors, which actually means that making a big investment in unmeasurable media would be [...]
Read the full post >>Almost nothing frustrates me more than narrow minds, empty terminology, and the general inflexibility of systems and tools. I’m writing this in the TGV train somewhere in France in the area of Dijon – traveling makes me reflect on things very much. This post is about where I think real corporate innovation originates, which also [...]
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