Bernhard Hauser

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Bernhard Hauser

Bernhard Hauser

📍 Vienna, Austria https://www.hauser.io

"How long are you funded?"

In my experience at Heylog, I often encountered a common concern from larger customers: they wanted to know our financial runway, or more precisely, how long we were funded. This question wasn't just about our current financial health. It was really about assessing the risk of doing business with an

Not everyone needs a bold and ambitious vision for their company

I'm certain that almost every founder has been told at some point that they need a compelling and bold vision for their company to succeed. After nearly a decade in the industry, I can assert that this is largely a myth propagated by investors. To date, not a single customer

Building a business entirely on top of someone else's is usually a bad idea

After last week's news on Beeper, the Android app that plans to unify native cross-platform messaging in one single application, that Apple cut their access to iMessage, I reflected on my time at oratio where we built our own WhatsApp Business API years before Facebook/Meta released their official API

Use AI to enhance your product's capabilities – not to define them

This week's OpenAI Dev Day probably killed thousands of startups in less than an hour. See it for yourself: I'm in a WhatsApp group with a few other founders and we discussed the outcome of the announcements made on this day – some of us even directly affected. OpenAI just killed

New ideas emerge within ecosystems

About 10 years ago I read a book by Steven Johnson named "Where Good Ideas Come From" and the main take-away at the time for me was that no idea is created in isolation, but rather within ecosystems. For example, every app on the market is dependent on the very

Defaults matter

Sometimes little thought is put into the decision on what to set as default option, sometimes however it can be a major factor contributing to a product's success. Defaults matter, because changing them is oftentimes overlooked by users or not even considered to be relevant enough to do the work.

The Independent Technology Business Manfesto

We often hear stories that technology companies "must fundraise" in order to capture relevant market share and become leaders in their industry. This thinking originates from a time where technology companies needed large sums to get started, and then create a business that can scale at little marginal costs. In

Why Nigerian scammers say they are from Nigeria

The other day I read an interesting paper titled Why do Nigerian Scammers Say They are from Nigeria? published by Microsoft Research (!). It immediately caught my interest and, to make it short, the outcome is pretty interesting. Although I have to say that it's worth reading the 14-pages paper that

How to block ads on Safari for iOS

I hate ads. I know that for some types of companies they are the only way of earning money, but I absolutely dislike the context switching when consuming content and – generally – the intrusiveness of the whole ecosystem. In this quick post I will demonstrate how you can easily install an

Contracts are not made for when everything is good, but when things turn sour

Of course, not many people want to talk about what steps to follow when they should get divorced or when a co-founder leaves a company. But this is exactly the reason why such contracts are made in the first place. Setting aside emotions and ego, and diligently drafting these contracts