Two tactical principles used in military operations can help you close financing rounds and win tenders — Both warfare and entrepreneurship are all about being bold and reaching challenging goals. Whilst setting the overall targets is a strategic activity in both warfare and entrepreneurship, achieving them requires tactics. What can entrepreneurs learn from tactical principles in a military context to achieve their bold goals?

Innovation and business are about talking to each other, not texting each other — “Where do we stand on this project?” “I wrote an email asking about the status, waiting to hear back from the team”. Aw. How I hate that response. Whenever I hear it — and I hear it quite often, unfortunately — I understand why things don’t move any quicker. Replacing that letter Email…

Don’t fall for the apparent quick success stories on social media. — Overnight success. Blitz-scaling. Wunderkind. The list could go on and on — the loud success gods constantly bombard us with their quick successes on social media. Or should I say, apparent quick successes? In my humble view, there is no such thing as a quick win. Every success takes tenacity…

However, don’t confuse excellence with perfectionism. Some people call me a perfectionist. I’m not. I’m an entrepreneur and a military guy, I really don’t have the time to create perfect solutions. Furthermore, perfect solutions are boring. However, I strive for excellence in all my activities. How can we make a…

Unlock the full potential of digital information management by modularising and linking information. — Digital documentation has come a long way, but it hasn’t. Wait, what? Has it come a long way now, or not? Both is true. Digital Information Management 1.0 has been around for 10+ years, and Digital Information Management 2.0 is only just emerging. Digital Information Management 1.0 Paper documentation was phased out in many…

You’re not saving time with those tools — instead, you’re losing money by spending your time with migration and manual work — As an entrepreneur, what’s your most limited and valuable resource? Most probably, you will say: money. As a founder of a B2B SaaS company, I will say: time. Money can be earned from customers or raised from investors, so it is a renewable resource. Time is not. Since we started…

Getting ISO 27001 certified isn’t rocket science. Use the tools you already have, apply common sense, and you will be fine in any audit. — More and more enterprise customers expect their suppliers to be ISO 27001 certified. Therefore, startups and SMEs need to find ways to deal with ISO 27001 in a lean and modern way. The core of any ISO 27001 certification is the so-called Information Security Management System (ISMS). In analogy to…

Western Europe assumes that electricity is available 24/7/365, and that all electricity generation needs to be profitable. How flawed is this. — As described in a previous article, self-sufficiency in a modern single family home is feasible, even with electric cars in moderate climates such as Switzerland: Solar Self-Sufficiency Is Feasible, Even in Moderate Climates Solar self-sufficiency for modern single-family homes is feasible, even with electric cars in moderate climates such as…tom-vogel.medium.com

Don’t charge your cars at night just because you can save a few cents on electricity. — As described in a previous article, self-sufficiency in a modern single family home is feasible, even with electric cars in moderate climates such as Switzerland: Solar Self-Sufficiency Is Feasible, Even in Moderate Climates Solar self-sufficiency for modern single-family homes is feasible, even with electric cars in moderate climates such as…tom-vogel.medium.com