Straightforward discussions on why often we disagree with the current hype, without filters or buzzwords.
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Like quite a few others, I broadcasted for many years how the EU automotive sector was driving into a wall while ignoring the uptake of its Chinese counterparts. First, they ignore the Chinese EV, then they laugh at it, then they say it’s unfair...The Paris Motor Show is
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There's a reason why I write quite frequently about AI. The thing with AI is that contrary to other technologies that have changed our world this last century, we immediately start to feel its impact. Probably not because we are more educated about tech in general (far from
🚨Trigger warning. This might be an optimistic view of technology. If you feel uncomfortable reading such a shocking take on AI coming from me, feel free to skip this article. (What is wrong with me?) I trust we don't have to overthink the top ten sectors that haven&
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This week, in the limited series on consulting I'm running with 30 of you, we talked about using LinkedIn to activate your network. I should have mentioned an article I wrote a few months ago about The Verge redesign. The Verge redesign matters (for us, too)The Verge
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I've been discussing on and off how primarily digital was all about consumers' gadgets, pizza-delivery startups, and in cases of B2B, SaaS, and cloud. I'm not reviewing it all over again, but the keyword you're looking for is laziness (or efficiency, depending on
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One of the many paradoxes of consumers regarding innovation is how slow they are to react to what impacts them the most. The more critical a product is to them, the slower they seem to be willing to shift to new, better solutions. There's undoubtedly a "devil
I rarely comment or (worse) link to websites discussing startup ecosystems as they mostly only report how much money was raised by teams X or Y. Which, in and of itself, as someone working on innovation and not short-term risky investments, bears no interest to me. But there's
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This week, I want to share something that surprised me –or should I say even me– regarding the pace at which AI gets embedded in different aspects of our lives. As my only remaining social network is now LinkedIn, I spend about an hour every day on the site to
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It's difficult not to consider the Y Combinator accelerator as the mother of everything startup for these last (nearly) twenty years. If anything, their track record is impressive, and their own marketing doesn't even bother trying to be smart or subtle. Facts are enough: "39%
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Of the 73,257 NFT collections we identified, an eye-watering 69,795 of them have a market cap of 0 Ether (ETH). This statistic effectively means that 95% of people holding NFT collections are currently holding onto worthless investments. Having looked into those figures, we would estimate that 95% include
Recently, there have been some discreet shifts in the world of entrepreneurship around what is called Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition or ETA. In stark contrast to the traditional startup narrative that's dominated our thinking for so long, where young entrepreneurs would invent a new product, launch it by moving
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USB-C Read more on this: 🟢 Europe now has a clear role in tech, regulating it (you’re welcome)This week, I wanted to tackle a long-standing discussion we needed to have about how Europe has become a white knight of sorts for the US, “helping” them –and the rest of