Life Update:

Most of you know that enabling global talent is one of my big passions in life – so i am excited to finally make it public:

I joined @beondeck as CTO to lead the product-engineering team 🙀🙀🙀

Quick thread why 🧵👇
Why On Deck is amazing 🔥

Location, network, or access should not be a limitation on your career opportunity.

If you are amazing you should work with amazing people on things that excite you. (period, not but's)
On Deck is connecting people worldwide.

You don't need to rely on shady local investors, be limited by local network, or ripped off by dodgy local accelerators.

You might be based in X, but the co-founders you find through On Deck might be based in SV (or Miami 👀).
We build two things:

A private goal-driven network platform and a new approach to continuous online education.

The magic comes from the fact that each new program supports the others.

People from the Angels program want to invest in people in the Founder program, etc
Full Disclaimer:

I am also a seed-investor in On Deck with remotefirstcapital.com

And FYI: I will continue to invest on the side of my full-time job as i have done the last 1-2 years. The fund is doing absurdly well but that's a different thread 👀
Here a few threads on more details about On Deck

2020 🚀
Last but not least:

If you want to join any program of On Deck or our team - DM me - happy to help! 🙏

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14 Dec 20
Finally managed to make proper pizza in a european electric-oven. Almost gave up on it. 🙏❤️🍕

Fourth try to bake it. Also threw away like 4 kg in dough before ;)

PSA: You can make good (soft) pizza at home! 😍
cc @pmoe @siepert @fredsters_s ❤️ 🙃
In case anyone wants to try out:

mix
- flour
- 65% of weight of flour in water (ideal 00 caputo)
- less than 1g dry yeast
- 3% salt
- optional oil and beer

stir until sticky mess

rest to soak up

slap & fold on floured bench
rest & repeat until smooth

rest for 24h covered
Read 6 tweets
11 Sep 20
Lots of new funds

Few quick predictions

1)

Startups and VCs will switch roles

VCs are now newbies
Founders are the kings

VCs pitch now founders
VCs panic while they look for product-market fit
2)

Funds have hundreds of LPs
We will see information leaks and similar problems
Small funds will be seen as not worth the risk

Most funds will start to report no valuations, no business economics, no nothing unless founders ask for it or it's public
3)

Audience = Fund

Every large newsletter host, every podcast host about startups (or related - eg gaming) will have a fund

Influencers and investors roles will merge early-stage

I expect the first VC fund by a livestreamer by November.
Read 13 tweets
9 Jun 20
On my first trip to Bulgaria, I had to convince an EU-funding expert about a project we wanted to partner on.

I was trying so hard to excite him.
Nothing. Even worse. He was silently disagreeing.

I tried harder and even made up stuff.
But he just kept cold-face shaking his head
Afterwards, he told in dry Bulgarian English:
"Great idea. Love it. We should partner."

My head went 🤯

Then my bulgarian team members pulled me aside and reminded me that in Bulgaria people shake their heads for "Yes" and nod for "No". 🤯^2
The whole meeting he was agreeing with me.

And once i got really intense he agreed on every line.

Most likely i made him even a bit uncomfortable by being so intense. He just shrugged it off as "Western Europeans are f'ing crazy" and kept agreeing.

He kept shaking his head 🙈
Read 5 tweets
31 Dec 19
A few 2020 remote work predictions combined with free startup ideas:

📺 Multiple teams will innovate on videocalls

Startup Idea:
Rethink video clients without "BIG FACES IN A BOX"

Different calls need different optimized experiences (eg Townhall vs 1on1 vs small team call)
📖 Gitlab company manuals will become the new norm.

Even management courses will focus on it.

Startup Idea: Build a tool that merges the boundary between reading/knowledge, team-communicating/update and doing/action.
🏡 Rural areas will try to come up with "remote work" strategies.

Tulsa, Vermont and GrowIreland might become R&D labs how to do this.

Startup Idea: be the "service layer" for "me-too" rural areas to service and attract highly paid remote workers. Literally a concierge service.
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11 Nov 19
Many remote workers optimize their workplace for individual performance.

But the setup of @andytryba is the best I have seen in a long time.

Ok… Fanboy-time:

You call in… and at first, you are confused about where the camera would be…

Then he zooms out…
His office room is optimized for remote calls and having hybrid meetings.

With microphones that capture the best possible audio in every part of the room and a camera that can follow you

(fyi: the call was crystal-clear HD but for some reason, the screenshots came out low-res)
This allows him to do chats from any place in the room or let people who call in perfectly participate in an in-office discussion.

Andy manages several thousand people remote. It shows.
Read 5 tweets
1 Jul 19
In almost all discussions about remote work I have to first explain the difference between:

- digital backpackers
- workation tourists
- digital staymads
- remote workers

Very different people with very different lifestyles and needs.
B/c i was asked:

Digital Backpackers
- want to see the world
- travel like budget backpackers
- often run a small business
- ... or influencer
- ... or freelance
- switch location every 1-3 weeks
- usually work from coffee shops - ... or bigger coworking spaces
Digital Staymads
- stay 1-6 months
- try to live like local expats
- ... and be more productive
- regularly couples/families
- some work from coffeeshops
- some rent a desk in a coworking space
- ... or smaller office
- ... or use their airbnb
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