Startups: Where is your turbo button?

Blog on July 11th, 2011 2 Comments

Nearly every single web business I’ve worked in that grew to considerable size pushed the turbo button at some point. The turbo button is my way of saying something that grows the company fast. Something that takes you from growing to grown. Some quick examples to emphasize my point; Skype – bundled with Kazaa to [...]

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Lessons from Kazaa: a retro talk

Blog on February 19th, 2009 No Comments

At the end of 2008, I attended an inspiring mini-conference in Palo Alto for CTOs to explore big ideas. At last I have time to blog it. The conference was hosted by MIH SWAT – a division of Naspers with the mission to connect the technology strategies of the web businesses in their portfolio. Over [...]

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