The secret to being a lean startup? Focus on what you cannot do
Why do so many startups delay launching their minimum viable product (MVP)? Believe it or not, the main reason – in my experience – is down to anxiety over its perceived lack of features, which leads to the biggest form of waste in any lean startup: over-engineering.
Georgios Georgakopoulos on Computer Science & Greek tech entrepreneurship
Why shouldn’t Computer Science graduates lead the way in Greek tech entrepreneurship? After all, “logic and math is your vehicle, your legs and feet, and the more powerful and muscular they are, the further they will take you”.
When networking becomes not working
When does networking become not working? An interesting question that really bothers me as the number of conferences, forums, seminars and workshops devoted to startups and entrepreneurship continue to grow.
From web and cloud, to AI startups and beyond
There’s no two ways about it. AI – and AI startups – is the current darling of Silicon Valley and beyond. And it seems that this will be the case for the foreseeable future.
Marketing for startups? Why it should be an entrepreneur’s favorite habit
OK I’ll be quick about this one. Marketing for startups. Let me be clear and say this: entrepreneurs of all shapes and sizes need to have one crucial habit, and that habit is marketing.
Investing in space: the route to the stars
Space. The final frontier. Or is it? I like to think of it as the starting frontier; the place we must “return to”, to have any hope for the future of the human race.
It’s the product development efficiency, dummy!
Whenever people ask me about startup successes my answer is always simple: product development efficiency.
Investment strategy: just give Lean a chance
Is investment strategy the reason behind why very few businesses succeed while most of them fail?
World War for Entrepreneurship: The Great European Defeat
World War for Entrepreneurship. A grand title I know. Perhaps I even risk exaggerating a little. But please, hear me out first.