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Am I asking the right question?
Understanding of statistics and probability is one of the most undervalued skills. Obviously in business, but equally in your private life. Why? Well, firstly it can help you to ask the right question, and then secondly answer them. Einstein is (incorrectly) credited...
Can we trust brand valuations?
We are beyond the point where anybody questions whether your brand actually means anything. However, assessing exactly how much is an altogether different matter, and few are bold enough to try. Brand Finance is one of them, and they have recently published their...
How VCs help shaping industries
Shipping (and logistics in general) has not been used to Venture Capitalist backed investments. There has been a lot of tax based investments in vessels, containers and other "hard assets", but these have all been low risk. For "normal" investors every investment is...
Flexport – is it actually that fluffy?
With its latest funding round, Flexport officially entered the unicorn territory and, according to Agnes from Despicable Me, just became "so fluffy" - an opinion shared by many industry insiders. The lead investor, Softbank, may have been grabbing headlines for its...
The year in (e-thomsen) music
2018 was the first full year for e-thomsen music, and although it isn't exactly Universal or Sony Music it has actually started to get close to break even. The most popular artist was Soundtrack Your Life with 25.000 streams of the context dependent tracks. What does...
What to read during the holiday season
The holiday season is a great time to recharge, spend time with the people you should have spent more time with all year, recharge and get inspired. However, breakthrough innovation and inspiration rarely comes from the sources we always use, but rather ones we...
Don’t place all you bets on one horse
One of the greatest AHA! moments I had when I started to spend time with VCs and PEs some years ago was that they did not look at the path to success the same way I did. In a large corporate we would determine our capability gaps and then, using relatively...
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Coops tranformation handler om meget mere end teknologi [Danish]
Coops medlemsdemokrati har mange fordele, ikke mindst den loyalitet der skabes lokalt, men der er også ulemper. Skal Coop have succes med deres seneste digitale satsning skal de, ligesom alle andre store virksomheder, revurdere hvorledes de træffer beslutninger på...
SwanLeap at the top of Inc.5000
Impressively SwanLeap has been ranked as the (privately owned) company with the highest growth rate in North America by Inc.5000. SwanLeap produces NextGen TMS ("Beyond TMS" as the have tagged it) using AI and real-time analytics to automate the supply chain...