First the good news: Brussels is convinced, something like EU-Inc will come. Now the bad news: Politicians will create a solution that won’t be useful for founders and investors – unless we stay actively involved in the details. We need your help!| Andreas Klinger
In his first presidency he was verbal shit-posting and looking what sticked and rotated people around him until something fitted. This time he comes prepared and is very intentional about what he says and does.| Andreas Klinger
Chapter 1 of a Sci-Fi short story i wrote| Andreas Klinger
Uncapped safe notes misalign incentives in first rounds… let me explain why| Andreas Klinger
Europe is special to me as I consider myself a proud European, but damn we need to talk. Europe please wake up.| Andreas Klinger
In February I made my first business trip to India. Three weeks deep in the Indian tech ecosystem. My summary is simple: I feel like the world needs an update how we view India| Andreas Klinger
The hard part now, is to get mindshare with customers.| Andreas Klinger
I use apple’s keyboard “text” shortcodes to setup a lot of things i have to type regularly. It’s easily one of my favorite productivity hacks!| Andreas Klinger
The goal of this article is to break down how i make investment decisions in the hope that it helps founders to see their fundraising effort from the “other side”.| Andreas Klinger
I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees – maybe this article helps you avoiding this| Andreas Klinger
I want to preface this by saying that I have only a mild case of ADHD, eg I don’t take any medication. I get regularly asked about...| Andreas Klinger
You might have the worst codebase in the world. It was written by people who had no standards or didn’t care about code quality. H...| Andreas Klinger
You are most likely already experienced with hiring so think of this more as a quick FYI focusing on hiring remotely… What issues...| Andreas Klinger
This article is based on a comment of mine to a HackerNews question. Thought it might be useful to explain it here a bit more in d...| Andreas Klinger
Maybe… This anxiety isn’t anxiety it’s just your raw excitement that you are misunderstanding. This creeping imposter syndrome jus...| Andreas Klinger
Hey folks, I haven’t been blogging for quite some time, so everything is a bit rusty for me, but i thought this article might be u...| Andreas Klinger
If you go to Lean Startup events you will find first time founders, consultants, accelerator managers, r&d people, enterprise intr...| Andreas Klinger
It’s fair to say that Angellist is the most exciting (web/mobile) tech startup in 2013. Even before they launched syndicates, earl...| Andreas Klinger
The topic of investing is omnipresent in our startup world. Sooner or later most startup founders look for external funding. And i...| Andreas Klinger
There is a disenchantment in our generation. We are still sitting on our lonely planet without space travel nor flying cars or at...| Andreas Klinger
There is a lot of talk going on about the endurance and struggle that startup founders go through. How long the hours are, we all...| Andreas Klinger
There is an energetic discussion going on in the Web-Tech Startup World. Each city wants to know - “Can we become the next Silicon...| Andreas Klinger
Fortunately I was able to tell this already to many people in person. But a quick public blog post might help to clarify and simpl...| Andreas Klinger
Every epoch in the history of humanity had a raw resource that became the key to commercial success that time. Similar to companie...| Andreas Klinger
Last week @robfitz asked me on short notice to join a panel at #foundersexchange about what first time founders shouldn’t do. I qu...| Andreas Klinger
Our calendars are packed with meetings. We communicate mostly in 1on1on1on1 trains. Nobody is happy. Nothing gets done. Can we fix this?| Andreas Klinger
A Sci-Fi Short Story| Andreas Klinger
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Its easy to start fundraising, but most people struggle closing their round. Especially now. Why? I try to give a few mental models and a bit tactical advice.| Andreas Klinger
Over the years i met several people that left quite an impact on me and in many cases helped me along the way. I tried to summariz...| Andreas Klinger
What a week. The US declared the state of emergency. Many leading startups closed their office. And I expect that all startups in...| Andreas Klinger
Suggestions by founders, managers, or anyone with authority in a startup, might often be misunderstood as directions or decisions...| Andreas Klinger
This blogpost is part of a small series of posts that cover the basics of startup metrics. My personal goal is to help early stage...| Andreas Klinger
As a consultant for analytics i see a fair share of integrations of analytics tools. One of the most common mistakes is how people...| Andreas Klinger
As a analytics consultant I am working with a lot of startups and help them in the topics of metrics, analytics, retention and gro...| Andreas Klinger
I usually I blog about Angellist but I have shown this “lifehack” to so many people that I thought it’s worth it’s own blogpost...| Andreas Klinger
How to be the perfect startup mentor? I don’t know. But following the best practices mentioned in this article I got personally at...| Andreas Klinger
Everyone is doing pitch training. Almost no-one does training for the mentoring session, but this is where most startups get the m...| Andreas Klinger
These are crowdaggregated pictures from Syria (across basically all social media channels). No media publisher inbetween. Authenti...| Andreas Klinger
@bgmasters created an awesome series of blog posts covering his notes of Peter Thiel’s startup class CS183. Personally i try to re...| Andreas Klinger
There is all this talk going on about Path uploading address books and privacy here privacy there. I understand the fact that Star...| Andreas Klinger
Since the launch of platform, Facebook has the approach of shipping features early, very early. They ship first, ask later and doc...| Andreas Klinger
I am writing this for a friend joining an early-stage breakout startup (year 2; $200M+ valuation). I wrote it as bullet points as...| Andreas Klinger