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
Bernhard Hauser
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,
How many piano tuners are there in Berlin?
This is a Fermi estimation problem and it's easy.
You have probably heard of similar questions (Google asked them in interviews!) and there is a simple lifehack to solve this by finding an answer within an order of magnitude (10^1):
How many people live in Berlin: 100k, 1M or
Things I didn't like in my 20s but crave for in my 30s
I spent last weekend with a few good friends in nature where we rented an apartment to hike and explore the surroundings of Berlin. Most of us are now in their early 30s, but some are still in their late 20s.
At some point we talked about how our priorities
Apple's house rules
The debate between Hey.com and Apple has definitely dominated tech Twitter this week. In short: Hey.com released a new email client for web, Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android and it's charging a monthly fee for it. This subscription is set up on the web, but Apple insists
How is Telegram going to keep its promise to stay independent and keep its user data secure?
On 12th May 2020, Telegram's founder Pavel Durov posted on Telegraph the following announcement (excerpt):
For the last 2,5 years some of our best engineers have been working on a next-generation blockchain platform called TON and a cryptocurrency we were going to name Gram.
We were very proud with
The joy of building your own newsfeed
It's probably no surprise to most that algorithms define what we see and what we not see when it comes to news. After all, that's how the constant stream of news and updates keeps being manageable.
But algorithms have a dark side as well. As a consumer, they work mostly
How to come up with ideas for your next business
The other day I sat down with a friend for lunch and he said after working for five years at Facebook, he is finally ready to start his own business.
"I'm really looking forward to this", he said "but I just don't know know yet what it's really going to
Your SIM card is your identity
I remember the time many years ago when I would get a new phone along with a new SIM card. One of the most important things I did right after registering the SIM was to change the default PIN code of the SIM to something more secure.
It was simple