Idea, Timing & Execution: Lessons Learned from Successfully Launching a Groupon Clone in Switzerland

05 Jul 2010 ⋅ by Bernhard Schindlholzer ⋅ in Strategy ⋅ 3 Comments

Does your corporate vocabulary reflect your corporate strategy?

08 Apr 2009 ⋅ by Bernhard Schindlholzer ⋅ in Strategy ⋅ 0 Comments

Steve really wanted to make a company

I love this quote. It is from Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc., describing the reason why he and Steve Jobs saved up money to move into their first office. This is just one interview that can be found in the book “Founders at Work – Stories of Startups Early Days”. Actually, the interview with Steve Wozniak is available for free here.

What is the most fascinating about this interview and the story of Apple in general is that it shows what is one of the critical issues when starting a company: you need someone, who is passionate about the product or service (Steve Wozniak in the case of Apple) and you need someone, who is passionate about selling the product and making money (Steve Jobs). If these two characters are combined something great can be established.

And this is not just a one-time constellation at Apple but a general pattern, that can be found in several other interviews in the book.
Go and read it, if you want to find out more about famous Silicon Valley startups.

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