Silicon Valley Is Diverse One week before the German elections, I have the need to make a very important statement. After having been to Silicon Valley and reading a lot of articles and books about it’s success, one thing is very clear to me...
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Yoda Is Wrong
On 5th of November 2016, I had the opportunity to gave my “Yoda Is Wrong” talk for the second time in front of the new members of the Elite Network Bavaria. It was a great pleasure to give that new and improved version of this talk...
Isar Rafting on Your Own (Isar Schlauchboottour)
Every summer, hundreds of people go to the south of Munich to spend a full day in inflatable boats on the Isar, Munich’s beloved river. Beyond a doubt, Isar rafting is some of the best fun you can have. In this blog article, I will tell you...
9 Steps How Your Company Will Become A Better Software Company
To become a better software company is invaluable for almost every company these days. In his Wall Street Journal article “Why Software is Eating The World” from 2011, Marc Andreessen laid out the basic reasons and examples why software...
Hamburg – Small railways and big drag queens
Since I don’t want this blog to be engineering only, it is time to start blogging about other inspirational things in life. One of the things you can do that can be highly inspirational – depending on how you do it – is traveling...
The 7±2 reasons why gibbon’s five failed.
Yes, gibbon’s five failed. Even though I am still convinced that our vision of providing very specific, high-value recommendations for users of what to do in their spare time was a great one, we did a lot of things wrong and did not manage to create...
Beginning With The End In Mind
What does test-driven-development (TDD), acceptance criteria of user stories and drawing a line in the sand of lean startup analytics all have in common? They are all engineering/product development applications of Stephen R. Covey’s habit „Begin...
Yoda Is Wrong
Yesterday, I had the great opportunity to give a presentation titled “Yoda Is Wrong” to all the new members of the Elitenetzwerk Bayern summarizing the lessons learned of my 5 years in industry. Thanks to the Elitenetzwerk for giving me...