This is a guest post by Janine Pfahl, a communications and learning expert. Janine replies to my earlier post., which you might read first. While pausing for a moment in the spring sunshine to read Michael’s text „You can learn something from everybody and everything from all“, our dog positions his snout on my keyboard and starts to communicate in his own way. It’s absolutely clear what he wants to tell me. Not only
I hear gossip about colleagues everyday — in the subway, during lunch, etc. . I don’t really listen to people chitchatting but interestingly those people around me seem to always be the ones being in the right to complain about others. Until today I have never overheard a conversation in which somebody told her peer that she herself was unfair, illoyal or focusing on her individual success instead of the team’s. Isn’t that funny? It
Isn’t that fantastic? 50,000 women have — voluntarily — got pregnant in the last 18 months with the help of an app! At least this is what fertility startup Ovuline’s CEO Paris Wallace said this week. The Ovia fertility app has been downloaded 300,000 times and users are adding 1 million data points every two and a half days. This makes Ovuline’s fertility panel the largest in the world. In the big data world,
If you are a parent of school kids like me you’re most probably wondering whether this kind of schooling is the best possible way of education. Most of us would agree that there’s a lot of improvement potential in nowadays western school systems. Ok, there are private schools — but, in most cases they are expensive and — at least in Germany — the educated contents have to be exactly the ones
What are you as an entrepreneur focusing on in your daily struggle to success? Are you looking for a victory or are you making sure not to be defeated? Be aware of this simple recipe: Success is the absence of defeats, not a victory. A victory is the inevitable result of preventing defeats. This is my central statement. What does that mean for your startup? Let’s have a look at a critical aspect in the
I really like that infographic. These recommendations could describe a winegrower — and hey — wouldn’t it be nice to actually be a winegrower?
Having been an entrepreneur for over 20 years, I did not have to think twice to agree becoming a mentor of Founder Institute’s Munich chapter in 2013. When FI director Jan Kennedy discussed the first semester with me, I had a flashback to the times of my first startup: a travel agency which morphed into one of Germany’s first online travel agencies ever in 1995. In those days, my co-founder and I did not have any clue
Today, I stumbled upon an article by Tom and David Kelley, from IDEO. It’s an excerpt from their book ‘Creative Confidence’ in which they describe the effects of positive language not only in corporate environments, but on human beings in general: Language is the crystallization of thought. But the words we choose do more than just reflect our thought patterns—they shape them. What we say—and how we say it—can deeply affect
After having blogged rather less than more during the last five years — and without a real focus, I’ll change my writing habits in two ways: First, I will write in english, because it makes much more sense to communicate in a language that all of my friends and readers are familiar with. And, writing in a foreign language, makes me writing in a more concise way — I have to think harder what (not) to say and how
Die Sendung Notizbuch des Bayerischen Rundfunks ist heute im Thema “Startup Hype in Berlin” dem Grund für den aktuellen Run nicht nur deutscher, sondern auch internationaler Firmengründer und Investoren auf die deutsche Hauptstadt nachgegangen. Und da man als Münchner Sender nicht wirklich ausschliesslich über Berlin sprechen kann, ohne die eigentliche Hauptstadt, München, zu erwähnen, durfte ich auch ein paar warme Worte über die hiesige Startup Szene verlieren. Mein Beitrag ist
Eine neue Geschäftsidee für Firmengründer — dieses Experiment starten wir auf idee.vc am morgigen 9. September. Knapp formulierte Ideen — 140 Zeichen müssen ausreichen — sollen potenziellen Startup Gründern auf die Sprünge helfen. Zusätzlich dient das Experiment als Zeichen gegen die gerade in Deutschland häufig anzutreffenden Bedenken, seine Ideen mit anderen zu teilen- aus Angst, die Idee könnte “gestohlen” oder “kopiert” werden. Über Eure Vorschläge freuen wir uns — denn
Das Interesse an Apps wächst ungebrochen von Jahr zu Jahr: Während dem erste Show Your App Award mit 90 App Nominierungen im Jahr 2011 noch zögerlich begenet wurde, waren es letztes Jahr mit 140 Teilnehmern schon wesentlich mehr. Und zum diesjährigen App Wettbewerb schicken App Entwickler und Markenunternehmen nochmals mit über 170* nochmals mehr Apps ins Rennen. Seit dem gestrigen Montag ist das Voting über die von appstar bereitgestellte Online-PLattform