I’ve been obsessed with the idea of B2B marketplaces a since the ’90s. I’m old enough to remember the Verticalnet days and saw how many great ideas, companies, and money was invested (or lost) trying to build digital B2B platforms which were facilitating commerce, information, and networking opportunities in different industries during the last two …Read More
My first decade with Vesuvio Ventures. Some lessons learned.
I just noticed that my company Vesuvio Ventures is celebrating its first decade in business. And yes, it’s true that time flies when you are having fun! It took me many years to understand our business model and will share some of my personal learnings during our first decade in this post. I started …Read More
The right way for event organizers to do an innovation pilot with tech startups
I just read this HBS great article about how big corporations should do innovation pilot with startups, and I thought that it would be interesting to customize some learnings about how live event organizers could and should capitalize innovation opportunities working with tech startups. I wrote in the past about potential disruption in the …Read More
The importance of being vulnerable in our life and career
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they are never weakness. Brene Brown vul·ner·a·bil·i·ty noun the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally. I don’t like many things about Uber culture and certainly deleted …Read More
Building the perfect entrepreneur part II. Born or made?
I wrote some thoughts about entrepreneurship a couple of weeks ago and the whole idea or exercise was: which key skills would I choose to “build” the perfect entrepreneur. I was glad (and surprised) to see how many people reacted, shared their opinions and wrote me privately with their views, ideas, suggestions, and questions. I …Read More