I have recently been approached by a good friend of mine, Wojtek Pander, and asked for a contribution to his research paper on Open and Customer / User-Driven Innovation. I immediately thought the best we, here in Selleo, might contribute, would be to share our very down-to-earth insights gathered together with our clients on over Continue Reading

The year 2011 has ended and I think one might justifiably claim that it was a ‘year of mobile’ indeed. We are going through tough economic times and yet we can observe how smartphones, tablet devices and mobile technologies are driving the growth of world’s largest markets like the US, Europe and Asia. The trend Continue Reading

In Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Peter Drucker discusses the various sources of innovation. One of them is technical knowledge, which is often the foundation of ventures set up by tech entrepreneurs. Drucker notes that science-based / technology-based innovation is loaded with extremely high risks. The window of opportunity is often very narrow and heavily congested, with Continue Reading

The Startup Genome Project is an initiative launched to identify what makes Silicon Valley startups successful as well as to share the findings with entrepreneurs in other parts of the world. In their first step, the Startup Genome Report – the organisation analysed the data from 650+ web startups and developed a framework which is Continue Reading

In October, we attended an extraordinary event in Vienna – the Startup Week Europe. Its goal was to gather, introduce and put in a contest 50 of the most interesting application startups from the Central and Eastern European region, each of them being present in the market for no longer than four years. From the Continue Reading