Bernhard Hauser

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Bernhard Hauser

Bernhard Hauser

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

Don't work with assholes

Assholes come in many forms. They can be your customers, investors, colleagues, advisors and sometimes family and friends – though I hope your judgment in friendship is sound. Now in my mid-30s, I've sharpened my skill of saying "No", particularly when it comes to dealing with assholes. And don't get me

One year in a startup is 3 years in a corporate company

Of course, putting an exact factor like 1:3 to life in a startup vs. life in a corporate can only be a guess, but I think the logic still holds true. By the very definition of a company pre product market fit, constant iteration and quick learning in a

Employee departures are tough, but can refresh and refocus a company

This week I let go of a third of the team. I have been thinking for some time now Is this really the right talent? or Although the person is not yet performing, will s/he adapt soon? or What if not, should I fire him/her right away? In

Especially in B2B, you can really sell anything before writing a single line of code

As a product-focused founder, I approach new ideas and opportunities primarily through a product angle. I ask myself, what gaps in the market exist and what USP can be defined on a product-level to solve a relevant problem. One of the strategies I deploy is selling products and services that

Life as a function of time, energy, health & money

As a daily reader of HackerNews, I visit the regularly to browse through latest tech news and other sorts of interesting articles. It's a gold mine of many not-yet-known-to-me niche topics. I love it. One articel that caught my interest this week was about the question 'what do you want?

When to sell stock

Since a few years I have been investing in stocks and ETFs. When I do a selection of assets to invest in, I follow a long-term strategy. For this to work out, I try to answer the following questions before doing an investment: * Do I know the market well enough?

In-person meetings > online meetings

It really depends on the occasion and the context of the business meeting, but my experience is that in-person meetings almost always outperform online or virtual meetings. While online meetings are an incredible powerful tool for talking to and getting to know people at scale, it's in-person meetings where one

Exploring the Dark Cave of the Market: Finding Product Market Fit

Exploring the Dark Cave of the Market: Finding Product Market Fit for Your Startup

How market leaders disappear

A few days ago, the WSJ published a new episode of Tech News Briefing titled How Mobile Chips Overtook Intel and I couldn't help but think that only a few decades ago, many experts would have doubted that giant chip maker Intel would lose massive market shares on the global

What 2-3 things are you really good at?

An interesting conversation with over 370 comments as of writing this article has been going on over the past few days over at Hacker News. User tmatthe posted an article from her blog on Being OK With Not Being Extraordinary and she makes the point that especially on the internet,