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Tomasz Pilewicz

Practitioner of new business opportunities exploration, and enthusiast of doing thing first or different from the others

What is technophobia and how to deal with it?

Authors of scholar paper in Behavioral Sciences defined technophobia as extreme and abnormal fear of...

How to Run Lean and Agile at the Same Time?

Frameworks for projects delivery or products development are like multivitamin pills – they offer...

5 things I have learnt at Venture Café this year

I have experienced Venture Café for the first time in Boston, USA, when I was finishing my MBA...

Innovation Performance Controlling

Implementing innovation strategy within planned resources and estimated timeframe is what management...

Collaboration strategies – how to partner right?

One of principle rules in attracting external resources to a starting-up enterprise is to make its...

Blockchain buzz masterclass

Alec Ross in The Industries of the Future states that blockchain will be to banking, law, and...

Disciplined Art of Scaling-Up

In previous post I’ve covered topics related to business formation and new market entry, incl...

Design Thinking – Think Big. Start Small. Move Fast.

Design Thinking, traditionally used by architects and designers, recently gained popularity in...

Platform Economics – What Matching Users is About?

Nowadays companies can reach valuations exceeding billions of dollars and deliver value the...

Project Management 3.0 and Large Scale Projects

Current definition of a project has evolved from temporary endeavors undertaken to create unique...

How Start-ups Disrupt Insurance Business?

Recently researched insurance providers acknowledge that their business is undergoing massive...

What Lean Start-up is About?

In recent years lean start-up approach gained recognition and has been widely used by entrepreneurs...

What is Your Break-Even Point?

What is one of most frequent questions investors ask start-ups after hearing the pitch? It is the...

What Valuable Service is not yet Being Provided ?

What valuable service is not yet being provided? Answering this question is the first step toward...

Connected Vehicles and Internet of Logistics

How to surf on edge of next industrial revolution and profit from convergence of communication...

Place Where Investors Pitch the Start-ups

If you are tired of perfecting your business plan and honing your pitch instead of focusing on...

Internet of Things and Next Industrial Revolution

Internet of Things (IoT) is a phenomenon that is expected to transform manufacturing, healthcare...

How are Trends an Innovators’ Friend?

Trias de Bes and P. Kotler in “Winning at Innovation. The A-to-F Model” present a unique, structured...

MOOCs for Start-ups and Entrepreneurs

If you believe in self-directed, flexibly scheduled learning to upgrade your skills, this post is...

How Facebook Nurtures Start-ups?

Have you wondered how Facebook attracts and retains growing population of mobile technology...

Learning from the Best – Start-ups Ecosystem in Switzerland

Some time ago I had the great privilege to attend a seminar in Warsaw, Poland, on Swiss start-ups...

Start up our Health with EIT Health!

EIT Health is healthcare focused initiative of European Institute of Technology with a budget of EUR...

How to Valuate a Start-up?

Have you founded a company, and don’t know how much it could actually be worth? Or are you maybe  a...

How to Get to Singularity University?

English word singularity means the quality of being one of a kind, and this what entrepreneurs will...

The Most Underutilized Source of Ideas

You want to invent the next big thing, but you don’t know exactly what? In this post you’ll find how...

Start-Up Europe Week has just Begun!

Start-Up Europe is a platform aggregating several organizations, supported by European...

What Entrepreneurs Can Learn form Starbucks?

Recently I have been delving into Starbucks Coffee Company transformation in 2008-2014, which they...

New Models in Start-up Support Eco-system

There is number of new models improving forms of support available for early-stage companies...

Value Based Pricing – How to Charge?

Every start-up, or entrepreneur offering goods or services in the marketplace ask themselves a...

Cars of the Future – are you Ready for a Ride?

In today’s discourse relating to trends impacting future of automotive industry we can distinguish...

Doing Business in Palo Alto

Palo Alto, which name derives from old coastal redwood tree is located in Santa Clara County, US...

What Type of Start-up Accelerator is for You?

I’ve been interested in start-up accelerators for years, but recently as I chose them to be the...

Short Calendar for Forward Thinkers

WebBusiness focused shows, summits, and exhibitions are not only are stimulative for intellect, and...

Million Start-up Mentors

  As a start-up enterpreneur could you imagine having direct access to mentors ready to support all...

Which Type of Venture Capital Firm is for You?

As an investor supporting new businesses in return for profit, or entrepreneur focused on growing...

The Shortest Way to the Future is to Invent it

Institute for the Future founded in 1968 in the US was set up by people, who imagined a world in...

Where 15 000 Entrepreneurs Meet in One Place?

Collaboration around innovation works best when people have space to talk to each other. Pretty...

Why any Plan is Better than no Plan?

In one of my favorite MBA case study books I found a particularly interesting anecdote illustrating...

How to Make Friends and Influence People?

How to make friends and influence people?   For those, who don’t know Dale Carnegie it’s worth...

How to Get PLN 150 000 and Go Global?

  If you are a company based in Poland, or you consider to set up your business in Poland soon, and...

How Big Data Improve Small Business?

Co-authored with Dear Maestro Krasen Dimov If you are not a part of big data buzz, and still asks...

What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Founder of Tesla?

I don’t know entrepreneur, who wouldn’t like Tony Spark, described by himself as “genius...

Why Teleconferences Suck?

You are organizing a teleconference, and surprisingly it doesn’t start on time, people cannot dial...

Over EUR 8 bln for R&D&I, Start-ups and SMEs Starts Flowing Now!

Are you looking for a place to set-up Research, Development, Innovation (R&D&I) activity...

E-stonia – a Nation of Digital Natives?

Estonia has become the first country in the world to offer e-residency with state-proven digital...

I Want to be a Consultant!

Which and how core business consulting skills could be useful for new business development?    And...

What entrepreneurs can learn from James Bond?

No matter which episode of 23 James Bond movies you’ll watch there are certain things which doesn’t...

Why Entrepreneurs Need the Second Half?

To the one, without whom I wouldn’t levitate by an inch.   If you take a look at people considered...

What’s Big Deal About Saying Hi?

Recently a colleague of mine shared with me an observation that his supervisor is not replying...

Don’t Design for Designers. Design for People

To the chief innovation officer I admire and conquer the cosmos with.   When it comes about living...

To Do Something Good, you Actually Need to do Something

To one of the entrepreneurs I’ve good fortune to meet. For that she finds time to dream big on...

How to Get into Infinite Inspiration Cycle?

I’m often asked how to get inspired or create new business ideas. So let me present you tricks that...

What Entrepreneurs Will Learn at MBA Studies?

Basing on own experience of participating in Professional MBA in Entrepreneurship & Innovation...

Rule #3: Successful Start-ups are Aggressive on Nearly Everything

Profit Income of Market Strategy (PIMS) research programme analysed performance and key success...

What Entrepreneurs Can Wish in 2015?

As entrepreneur you know the meaning of “make it a December to remember” and after the final sprint...

What you Should Know about PIMS?

Have you ever wondered which drivers explain profitability of organizations? Profit Impact of Market...

What’s the Gift for Deep Thinkers from Russians?

Does the product-market matrix sounds anyhow familiar to you? If so, it means you pay attention to...

Who Invests in Levitating, Endless Spinnig and Fancy Style Yoga?

Boosting up your idea to market journey doesn’t necessarily means finding one specific strategic...

How Fast is Your Strategy?

So you know what’s a business model and now it’s time to start implementing it. If you are a fresh...

What the Hell is a Business Model?

I bet that the phrase “business model” pops up in your life every day. But have you ever asked...

What Zohan Dvirr Tells us about Customer’s Experience?

Remember Zohan Dvirr, who was considered one of the most effective Mosad agents’, but in the long...

Why so Innocent?

Have you ever wondered what makes people buy premium segment goods, which face value doesn’t...

The Next Big Thing

Have you watched Back to the Future, or maybe the right question is have you watched Back to the...

Up, up and Away!

You may think that incorporating large company practices into growth of your emerging organization...

First Who, then What

  So you got an idea to set up a business, to be so successful that Clients will not only be...

What’s Big Deal about Follow-up?

You took part in networking event and you swiftly closed the conversation with magic phrase “I look...

Networking for Networking Buzzword Haters

To develop your company you need more successful deals closures. You already know that marketing is...

How to Change a Start-up into a Corp-up?

Whitehead once said that whole European philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato. Having studied...

Don’t Dream about Conquering the World, just Do it.

Looking for business partners, mentors and coaches in your start-up journey ? Or maybe you’d like to...

What is in EU money for you?

Are there any public sources of start-up activity co-financing right here, right now? What has...

Crossing the Chasm with Disruptive Innovation

If you want to know when top in their class companies lose their market leadership even by doing...

Why we Do what we Do and how We Can Change it in our Life and Business?

Let’s suppose that you are General Manager of fashion company, who has just decided that it is the...

2 Kaplans to Guide You

Are you pitching large caps or just wondering how to make the first contact? Proposing value to...

How are the New Ideas Born?

They say that innovation is much about connecting already existing dots in a way no one did before...

What is your Daily Dose of Attitude Adjustment?

Remember Jeff Gitomer we wrote about some time ago? If you have get familiar with “Yes!...

Innovation and Mentor Relationships vs Government Incentives

In North America mentor relationships are valued more than government incentives in terms of secret...

Looking for a Smart Way to Book your Summer Spot?

You are a summer tourist and you have found yourself in summer resort and look for last minute place...

Do you Hate Making Decisions and Wanna Feel Important ? Hold a Meeting!

No matter how developed your business undertaking or ongoing work engagements are, you probably...

Are you Ready to Become one of BRIdge Architects?

If you set up your start-up in Poland, no matter  whether it is academic spin-off, of your own...

Why you should Know Tim Ferris?

Tim Ferris is writer, entrepreneur and angel investor who once left the corporate and lives his life...

Crowdfunding Platform, VC, or Strategic investor?

Path from start-up through corp-up to well established enterprise make take some time, therefore...

What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from “The Script” ?

Nowadays they still do really good songs getting to the core of the riddle of life… “You...

Be Yourself. Unless you Can be Batman, then Always be Batman

Can we learn anything from Batman ? They say that everyone need a hero. Batman is considered to be...

We’ve Been there, we’ve Done It, and you Want It!

Who could guess that getting first EUR 25 000 for you start-up in Poland can be so easy ? Each month...

What can you Learn from Rocky Balboa?

Remember “Rocky” movies with Stallone you were watching when you were a little bit...

What Type of Leader are you?

We call them leaders because they take the risk before anybody else does. We call them leaders...

Twitter Hashtags, which Turn you into Entrepreneurial Rock Star

They say that Twitter is not form making connections, except initial informing world about your...

In Business – Like under the Sails

Someone wise once said: “What you can get in business is not always for the wind. Sometimes...

Ziga, ziga, ziga wow, Who’s Got the Keys to the World now?

Sincere congratulations for ESBIConference 2014 business block winners – FiNDEE, and academic...

Sparky Ideas Flowing in Coming Days

Tech soup straight from cauldron of creativity to be served between 9th and 10th of May 2014 at TOP...

Break Rules, Live the World more Interesting for Your Being Here, Make Good Art!

Does the name of  Neil Gaiman sounds familiar to you ? Take a look at brief commencement speech of...

Co Powstanie z Połączenia Gitomera z Googlem ?

Czy zastanawialiście się kiedyś co wyniknęłoby z połączenia Gitomera  z Googlem ? 🙂 Odpowiedź może...

No Dobra, ale Skąd ja Wezmę Kasę na te Wszystkie Swoje Pomysły ?

Co łączy Phone Soap, Puzzlebox Orbit i Sky Tube ? Wszystkie są innowacjami, które drogę od pomysłu...

“You Will Never Succeed Unless you Let Go of Your Fears and Fly”

Do you know Richard Branson, also known as Doctor Yes ? If not, you should better catch up with...

How do You Work on Your Attitude Skills ?

Looking for a 5 min. lifetime lesson ?  Listen to Jeff Gitomer during the morning shower every day...

Miasta UE a Open Innovation Model

Dla tych, którzy czerpią z otwartego modelu innowacji przy wypracowywaniu rozwiązań zaspokajających...

Untold Story of the West

Someone wise some time ago told me that nurturing new business development is like herding cats 😉...

Does Bruce Lee has to say Anything About Business?

Bruce Lee uważał, że brak sposobu jest sposobem, a brak ograniczenia jest ograniczeniem...