When we look at the evolution of video conferencing tools, I believe that we’re entering the third generation of them. The first generation was really about providing the video conferencing infrastructure and enabling people to discuss directly online instead of using their phone. One of the first wildly successful video conference startups was Skype, but… Continue reading The third generation of video conferencing tools
Designer Tools Landscape: One year later 🎨
Almost one year ago together with Alex we shared a deep dive about design tools. Since then quite a lot has happened in this space so I’ll share a quick update in this video with a list of the major fundraising and acquisitions that happened as well as three personal observations. Funding Rounds In terms… Continue reading Designer Tools Landscape: One year later 🎨
Virtual offices: The next Slack or just a fad?
As I shared in a previous video, this summer I was working on a deep dive about the future of work, and one of the categories where we saw several startups raising money was virtual offices. These startups, such as Cosmos, Tandem, Tymco or Gather, help businesses set up their own virtual office where employees… Continue reading Virtual offices: The next Slack or just a fad?
Impact investing #3: Climate change startups 🌎
In the last video of my series about impact entrepreneurship, I will finally cover the elephant in the room: climate change startups. Again I’m not an expert about it so what follows is mostly a “big picture” summary of what I read as well as what I see on the market. I personally categorize the… Continue reading Impact investing #3: Climate change startups 🌎
Impact Investing #2: The great demographic reversal
In the second part of my adventures into impact entrepreneurship, we’ll dig into a topic that I knew nothing about two years ago but that has since really impacted my view of our future: and it’s the demographic reversal that we will likely experience in the 21 century. As a note here, what follows is… Continue reading Impact Investing #2: The great demographic reversal
Impact Investing #1: Social Unrest
I’m probably not saying anything new here, but since a couple of years an increasing number of founders want to launch startups that have an impact on the societal and environmental problems that our world faces. Climate change is probably the first topic that comes to mind, but I dont think it’s the only one… Continue reading Impact Investing #1: Social Unrest
The rise of “user events” based products
The past couple of months I’ve seen an increasing number of very interesting products which leverage the “user events” data of a company to operationalize it. For example Correlated enables your sales or support teams to take action based on how people are using your product. The way it works is that you connects Correlated… Continue reading The rise of “user events” based products
1x 1.5x 2x ⏩
The past couple of years I’ve become increasingly bullish about the use of asynchronous communication at work. Synchronous communication is when you phone or do a zoom conference with your colleagues or customers and asynchronous communication is when you communicate with them through a Whatsapp recorded audio message or a Loom video for example. One… Continue reading 1x 1.5x 2x ⏩