Toolbox
A key innovation signal is when technology gets past a certain point of adoption with early adopters and finds a beachhead to the early core market. This transition is what makes or breaks an innovation--adopting the 'new' by said core market. In 1991, Geoffrey Moore was the first
Strategy
In 2021 I was working on a comprehensive benchmark of the Foodtech and Agtech ecosystems worldwide for one of the largest biotech clusters in Europe. Think of their role in the market as plucking the best deeptech startups ahead of the curve, bringing them the best nutrients possible to promote
Weak Signals
I wrote about NFT technology yesterday and didn't want to get too much in the weeds in an already long post. Still, I'd like to point at a key concept that startups and corporate innovators often miss: the crutch technology. When you're pushing a
The title of this article should have been: "I tried to write something about NFT technology in less than 10 min, and I failed miserably." I did succeed in going down this huge rabbit hole and back, though. Care to join?
Hot Takes
When I train executives or startupers on building business models, there's always a painful step: understanding that the product is only a feature of the business, not the end-game. This is true to the point that there might be a vast disconnect between the value a company delivers
Weak Signals
Last week, one of my dearest clients, Erasmus Center for Women and Organisations (Rotterdam School of Management), without me having to ask for it, shared about my book on their public Linkedin profile. Beyond the initial ego boost, it made me ask the following questions: how do we raise each
Weak Signals
Today's a concise post to share an amazing business pitch that reminds you what opposability means when talking about added value. It's not about AirBnB or the usual startup suspects but from a rock-star sound engineer named Steve Albini. We were in 1992, and it'
Culture
I often speak about the automotive market because it's in such turmoil that from an innovator's perspective, everything is exciting about it. Every part of the business model is changing (or should be), the underlying technologies and manufacturing processes are changing, what customers need is changing,
Strategy
In this article, I'd like to connect many dots I've been laying out regarding the future of China and what it now strategically implies for us in the West. You might have read a few things I wrote on this already, but I believe that the global picture is now apparent.
Hot Takes
A few years ago, tech journalists and, even worse, business analysts were still calling Facebook a startup. But you know me, I find it hard to call a "startup" a trillion-dollar business founded 18 years ago. Nowadays, the trend is to discount Facebook as a has-been digital incumbent
Technology
Last week we had one of the numerous forecasts about technology (*) that we've been reading for so many years. 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2022This list represents a glimpse into our collective future.MIT Technology ReviewThe Editors I'm not going to have an opinion about the pertinence of
Hot Takes
243 million cars are circulating in Europe [https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/ICCT_EU_Pocketbook_2020_Web_Dec2020.pdf] ; among them, about 15.5 million were newly registered, and among them, only 2.27 million are electric (still a record 2021 number for Evs). With that, my question