This is my second year doing parallel entrepreneurship, and I thought it fitting to reflect upon the last year or so. Last year was my first year as a parallel entrepreneur – or at least my first year after I realised that I was a parallel entrepreneur. In 2013 I played an active part in the following…

Did you ever notice how technology has its way of keeping itself to certain product categories while others seem to lack it completely? You might, for example, stumble upon a technology that has been widely used for years in a certain industrial sector, but has never been used in a consumer product…until one day, a…

Where does it come from, the feeling of knowing what the right thing is to do? When you’re presented with various choices, what do you choose? On which criteria? Based on what expected outcome? I often find myself struggling to choose right instead of wrong, and I’ve found a great “tool” that helps me in…

I stumbled upon this great video by Lewis Howes that – in all its snappiness (5:48) – has eight excellent tips to help you get started doing self promotion/personal branding using social media…and I assume the tips work equally well if you’re promoting your company and/or concepts. The video is almost a year old but…

I was reading this very inspiring article at Harvard Business Review the other day (I actually instantly bought the book as well…one more for the shelf…). In the article Roberto Verganti talks about user-centered-innovation and how he disagrees with the approach. After working with six sigma a couple of years in my previous job, I…

If you’re the type, like me, who likes numbers and plans (*), here are some tips from the top of my head… Guide to creating good business cases: do proper market research find realistic market numbers be specific about your assumptions build a proper model that can be reused for future products build various business…

It’s always interesting being introduced to a work domain that you haven’t been in previously. Trying to understand how people think, work and interact in the product design community makes me see a lot of weird things going on. One of my first realisations was that a great deal of product designers are designing stuff…

When making industrial design products you’re very likely also trying to innovate or even invent new concepts (unless you’re solely into ‘styling’). And while that is certainly the goal for many, and although ocassionally you stumble upon some true innovative concepts, in my opinion you’re most likely looking at “micro innovation” or – more plainly…

It’s a well known fact that ideas that are kept in the drawer never reach their potential. Ideas need to be brought out into the open, discussed, elaborated upon, shown to people, tossed and turned etc. etc. until the idea transforms into a business opportunity, a product, a concept or whatever. This proces of refining…

So, you bought that painting half a year ago and you were quick to decide where to hang it; then why is it still standing on the floor leaning towards the wall? And those new wooden panels you installed over a year ago, why haven’t they been painted yet? And why didn’t you fix the…

I read an interesting article this weekend. Supposedly Danes are very good at coming up with ideas to solving everyday problems, like the invention of the induction bicycle light Reelight that solves the problem of replacing batteries. I guess the reason for Danes being good at this, comes from our profound ability to grumble about…

I read about this concept on Springwise and I was intrigued by the simplicity in the message: if you don’t take up as much parking space as the big ass SUVs, then you don’t have to pay as much for parking. It’s taking a product (parking) that we’ve known for decades as a fixed price…