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The second best way of learning how to build companies

Building companies is hard work. There’s plenty of ways to do it, and most times, it’s very difficult to attribute decisions to success or failure in order to extract objective lessons. The best way of learning to build companies is building many companies. The second best way is listening to…

Startup

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The second best way of learning how to build companies
The second best way of learning how to build companies

Aug 18, 2021

Being a CEO quotes

According to Ben Horowitz, being a CEO is about courage. The loneliness of decision making requires even more courage to the CEO. Despite not having done it myself, I’ve had the privilege of supporting my partner in the task. Most of the times it’s been more about strengthening a decision…

Management And Leadership

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Aug 18, 2021

Company culture quotes

Most managers talk about culture, very few manage it. Virtually all of these quotes are taken out of Ben Horowitz’ “What you do is who you are”, which is a great source of inspiration for managing and thinking about corporate culture, so this post will seem more like a book…

Startup Lessons

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Aug 18, 2021

Management quotes

No manager is born trained to manage people well; all managers talk about it, and some make it sound as if this was an innate skill. Don’t believe the hype. Managing people (and organisations) is only learned through practice. Yes, high IQ is valuable, yes high EQ is critical and…

Management And Leadership

3 min read


Aug 18, 2021

Growth and Branding

A venture backed company with no growth is dead. The business of venture capital is growth, so assuming 50% of your growth is determined by your market (see starting up quotes and product quotes) and assuming you can build an ok product to get started, the rest of the adventure…

Growth Marketing

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Aug 18, 2021

Product quotes

The product manager is said to be a mini CEO in tech startups. When the company is under 20 people, one of the founders should be the product manager. I say its the mini-all-of-this-series-of-posts in the company. The frameworks on how to make decisions are very similar, the difference comes…

Product Management

3 min read


Aug 18, 2021

Hiring quotes

Hiring should account for 50% of a founders’ time. The impact of a great hire is always underrated. The impact of a poor hire is usually invisible. The impact of a bad hire is generally easy to detect, but many times emotionally challenging to attend. …

Hiring For Startup

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Aug 18, 2021

Starting up quotes

Taking the words of the architect Louis Khan, I marvel at beginnings. It’s a time of excitement, fast paced learning, intellectual challenge and very long hours. I’ve never worked more hours than in the first couple of years of a company. Most of the company shaping decisions are made in…

Startup

3 min read


Published in Elma

·Jan 3, 2021

Product management overview at Elma in 2020

2020 has been a year of high speed growth and process iteration at Elma. This has forced us to build great solutions at an incredible speed. In this post I share some product specific tips and learnings we have seen. We have discovered that health insurance companies are very operations…

Product Management

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Product management learnings at Elma in 2020
Product management learnings at Elma in 2020

Published in Elma

·Aug 10, 2020

Why incumbents struggle and lose against startups?

While fundraising, we get a question every once in a while which we always think has an obvious answer. Yet, even after plenty of examples of tech startups beating their incumbent counterparts at the digitalisation game, the same question keeps coming up. What stops an incumbent (or a player in…

Startup

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Why do incumbents struggle to beat startups?
Why do incumbents struggle to beat startups?
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Albert Malagarriga

3x entrepreneur, product guy, drummer, swimmer.

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