Are you making my mistakes?

Late last century I was involved in a joint venture together with a partner. Enthusiastic as we were, my partner and I were already building the company before the actual […]

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What do you know about launching alliances?

The launch is a crucial moment at the start of an alliance. After weeks, sometimes months, of preparation it is the moment everyone has been looking forward to. It is […]

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What powers business and innovation?

Charles Darwin once said: “In the long history of humankind – those who have learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” As someone interested in the topic of […]

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Grameen Foundation and partnerships

Last week during the 2013 ASAP Global Summit I was asked on Twitter what my favorite topic or presenter was and without hesitation I answered “presenter: Alex Counts, very interesting […]

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What are you going to do different?

Last week I shared my 7 lessons from the previous three years of entrepreneurship with you. If case you have missed that email you can still read these 7 lessons […]

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My top 7 lessons as an entrepreneur

I am about to reach my three-year point as a full time entrepreneur. Three years ago around this time I was in the middle of the process of leaving the […]

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Three months

Three months from Today I will depart for St Jean-Pied-de-Port in France to commence with my Camino to Santiago de Compostela. It is about 5 months ago we made the […]

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2013 will be an excellent year!

The New Year is just around the corner. Today is the last day of 2012 and I hope you are satisfied when looking back to the past year. With the […]

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Christmas, time for personal alliances

On this day before Christmas I would like to use this opportunity to whish you a fabulous Christmas time. A few days away from business and business alliances, it is […]

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Legal and practical, a contradiction?

How early do you involve your legal advisor in your alliance discussions? Creating alliances is something we cannot do alone, obviously. But still we all have been in the situation […]

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Microsoft and Barnes & Noble: Two main players in a defensive alliance?

Whereas Apple is in the digital reading space with iBooks on their devices and earning money on the book selling front as well as the hardware device front there is […]

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How do you transform an alliance?

Sooner or later every alliance will reach a point where it is ready for change. For one it may come sooner than for the other. The alliance may have served […]

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That's all!

That's all!