Today I learned: – How to use Juypter notebooks to effectively learn and play around with Python and datasets. – Some additional Python skills: list comprehensions, date formatting, … I’ve been learning Python for a couple of weeks now. Initially I started off with the Sololearn App which is pretty straight forward to learn the Syntax…
Continue Reading →Today I learned: – Keep an eye on the maxLength of custom fields (variables) defined in your Data Extension in Salesforce Marketing Cloud (formerly known as Exact Target) – Debugging SF is super hard as emails are just not queued but not accepted in the first place. If something doesn’t work they ask you to…
Continue Reading →This post first appeared on Project A’s Insights blog Part 3: Insights into our investment process As he mentioned in his last post, Ben will be illustrating the evaluation process that we use for both our incubation and acceleration projects (see here for more information on these two separate types of investments). Based on selected…
Continue Reading →This post first appeared on Project A’s Insights blog Part 2: Our Evaluation framework In his previous blog post, our New Business Analyst Benjamin promised to explain our evaluation process in more detail. In this part, he will explain the evaluation framework he and his team use in more detail. image Here it is in…
Continue Reading →This post first appeared on Project A’s Insights blog Part 1: How to turn great ideas into successful businesses Our New Business Analyst Benjamin looks for and evaluates new business ideas, technologies and trends for Project A Ventures. He assesses the market situation for new businesses and coordinates our internal idea generation process. In this…
Continue Reading →This post first appeared on Project A’s Insights blog Here at Project A, we assess hundreds of business models each month and people often ask us what our evaluation process looks like and what our criteria are. In fact, we’re going to talk about our evaluation framework in more detail in a future blog post,…
Continue Reading →I’ve been talking to a lot of people lately about starting a blog, writing about their expertise and experience or just travel memories. 99% of them will probably never
Continue Reading →In my last post a couple of month ago I wrote about my moodsheet and how it helps me to reflect on a daily basis. A couple of month ago Florian Schuhmacher from Quantified Self Germany invited me end of October last year to give a talk about my learnings with emotional tracking at Berlins…
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Almost 2 years ago – when I started working on my first own startup back in Munich – I was lucky to meet Florian Schumacher on a networking event. He was and is one of the most involved persons in the German quantified self community I know (in fact he founded Quantified Self Germany). Back…
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Last week I attended Startup Weekend Berlin. First time I attended a Startup Weekend. I co-organised a Startup Live, (same format), I participated and organised StartupBus, but I never attended a Startup Weekend. Time for change I thought when signing up a few weeks ago. What is Startup Weekend? At Startup Weekend you focus on…
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