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Unlocking the potential of subscriptions in Europe: Strategies for success
The subscription e-commerce model is taking Europe by storm. Consumers are eagerly embracing the convenience, value, and personalization of recurring deliveries for everything from meal kits to beauty products. As a merchant, this presents a massive opportunity to build predictable revenue streams and forge deep customer relationships.
The rise of recyclable and reusable packaging in online shopping
Merchants are building towards a more sustainable future by onboarding recyclable and reusable packaging systems for online shopping. This trend is keeping pace with environmental regulations and consumer preferences, simultaneously establishing the foundations for long-term growth.
Podcast: Lessons from building Firmhouse for 10-years
Roughly a month ago, Maria Bahamam a.k.a Madam Rotterdam stopped by for an interview. Maria was part of the first Firmhouse Venture Lab cohort.
How to use surveys the right way for testing your new business idea
Customer development surveys tend to have a bad reputation nowadays: they’re known as costing a lot of time to create, and giving confusing answers at best.
How you can hack Lean Startup into your Agile process
I was visiting the Agile By Example conference in Warsaw last Tuesday and had some interesting insights thanks to that.
Using the Jobs to be Done push & pull (forces) diagram to understand your product’s potential
If there’s one concept from Jobs to be Done theory that has helped me understand customer behaviour better, it must be the Progress Forces Diagram.
“Get out of the building!” Participating in a Startup Academy weekend..
Last weekend I participated in the Startup Academy, an event organised by Leon Pals at the Progress Bar, with the aim to..
What an entrepreneur can teach an academic
At the moment I’m working for a small company making software to help entrepreneurs build businesses, called Firmhouse.
Mapping your riskiest assumptions to find out what to test first
Before you can design a good experiment you need to decide on what to test first, by extracting the riskiest assumptions your Plan A is based on.
To make a product work, fit it into the lives of your users
Humans are creatures of habit. We prefer to stick to the things we know, and only switch to new solutions if our current solution is really inadequate...
How startups are like professional poker
The startup has become a commodity as the cost of running a business has decreased tremendously and the available knowledge and tools for it have become...
Startups win by learning fast
In the past 3 years we have been tracking the progress of many startup closely, because we organised mentoring across multiple startup accelerators and...
How to drive your startup into the ground without knowing it
I’ve coached a ton of founders in the past years and the one thing which bothered me most is that founders can get a lot of things wrong...