One of the main areas where visionaries tend to stand out compared to the rest of the world is represented by their willingness and ability to embrace a truly long-term perspective. When Mark Zuckerberg for example worked on Facebook, he did so with the long-term potential of the platform in mind and this is best …
In April 2020, Repair Ventures launched Olive, an extended car warranty platform that entered the highly competitive, multi-billion dollar Insurtech industry. With Olive’s entire service range available online, a successful digital strategy was vital. As with most new businesses, Olive couldn’t secure its desired domain name, in this case, Olive.com, straight away. Instead, the company …
Building a business on a premium, one-word .COM domain can mean that in terms of digital branding, your company is set for life. Yet, we don’t see companies launching on premium domains very often, thanks largely to the disparity between a startup’s budget and the cost of the best one-word .COM domains. Here, I speak …
As someone who lives in Europe and has been quite exposed to its culture, I can attest to the fact that from the perspective of entrepreneurship, many people are stuck in an overly-rigid mindset which revolves around extreme specialization and tunnel vision. The idea that if you are an engineer who specializes in Component A …
In the age of information, it is quite remarkable how many completely avoidable business mistakes are made despite the fact that everything is out there in terms of learning resources, including case studies generously shared by some of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, who don’t mind also talking about the things they did …
As an investor in digital assets, be they domain names or cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, it’s vital to understand what exactly it is you’re investing in and why you’re doing it. Far too frequently, the only explanation(s) provided by those who invest/trade tend to be something along the lines of “because they go up in …