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  1. Rincewind

    Getting Unscripted while having small kids

    PEOPLE 
    I tried many things, but basically I had to learn from scratch. I finished my studies as Engineer (Dipl. Ing. and Master of science) a few years before and worked some years as an employee for large companies as Airbus. But it didn't fulfil me. Still I grew up 20 years within the script and...
  2. Rincewind

    Getting Unscripted while having small kids

    PEOPLE 
    I started my unscripted journey 10 years ago. We got our first kid 7 years ago. My wife joined the unscripted journey 5-6 years ago and we started our "real" business 5 years ago. 4 years ago we got our second kid. We run a software agency with 25 employees right now and co-founded two startups...
  3. Rincewind

    Founding a bank

    INVESTING 
    When you don't do it in a western coutry, it might be easier. The guys in 'Rising High' (Netflix) show a working way.
  4. Rincewind

    30 Day Trials? ...for a SaaS

    SAAS / APPS 
    I read a book some time ago, that could be a good read for your problem: "Hooked" by Nir Eyal (Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products) In my experience, 30 day trials are useful if your product targets a large market and is quite self-explaining. The Hooked-model explains what has to...
  5. Rincewind

    What will you accomplish in 2020? <-- Well did u?

    EXECUTION 
    Double revenue to 1.5 Mio Euro Hire two new developers Serie A round for a Startup we invested two years ago with 5 Mio euro No more Projects below 100k, ideal Projects above 250k euro Run a half Marathon in Summer Get a golf Handicap of 46 or better Three afternoons each week with the Kids...
  6. Rincewind

    Services vs Products

    That's a very good point of view, thank you! I think that in the end even a productised services business is still a service business. We will still develop products for our customers, I just try to get it into a more structurized process and get cashflow, development process and expectation...
  7. Rincewind

    Services vs Products

    That sounds great, thank you! We offer IoT product development and I try to get that into a more productised version. But we have a large amount of customer interaction an need several rounds of feedback with them. Currently I try to define several "packages" with defined deliverables, at...
  8. Rincewind

    Services vs Products

    @Pinnacle that sounds great, could you describe what Kind of service you transformed Info which Produkt and how you Made thus decision? I run an IoT engineering service company and would like to Transform into a productised service. I read built to sell this week and try to find out how to...
  9. Rincewind

    I'm so tired

    That's a good point. I started with 20 hours/week and then the company took of and over night I was working 80 hours. But I'm getting back to healthy hours because I started there :)
  10. Rincewind

    I'm so tired

    I really like the design of your week. I have a similar but slightly more chaotic setup. But I also have all mornings, mostly all weekends and most evenings with my family. And I take the kids to sport several times a week. But yes, you're right. Time moves so fast and sometimes I don't...
  11. Rincewind

    I'm so tired

    I think about own products often, but I don't have too deep market insights into most markets. I was working for engineering companies as an employee, as a freelancer and now as owner of one. So I know how to develop products but I never worked long enough in any industry to really know the pain...
  12. Rincewind

    I'm so tired

    I had built to sell on my wishlist already and did not know the other yet. I will read both, thank you for the suggestion!
  13. Rincewind

    I'm so tired

    Yes, that's true. Before starting the services business I tried long years to start "my own product" and never found a working idea. So I came back to my skills (inventing & creating products and bringing together great teams) and started the engineering company. Somehow I still need someone...
  14. Rincewind

    How to use data in a software development company?

    MINDSET 
    Hi forum, I run a podcast and I interview CEOs with the question "What is digitization and how will it affect your business"? I run a software development company and we create IoT products for small and medium businesses in germany. Today I interviewed a professor who leads an institute for...
  15. Rincewind

    I'm so tired

    Hi guys, I'm registered here since 2016 and was quite inactive here during the last years. When I posted here the last time, I was still freelancing. Lots of stuff happened since then. I started an engineering service business together with my wife. We develop IoT products for german medium...
  16. Rincewind

    I've Read The Millionaire Fastlane!

    GOLD! HOT! 
    I've read both books and I believe I had the "read millionaire fastlane" badge some time ago. Somehow I only see the "read unscripted" badge in my profile so I post in this tread :) Actually I read both books twice and already gave several copies away as gifts to friends. Thank you so much for...
  17. Rincewind

    How Do I Get Real Market Input?

    I regularly research 100-200 potential customers on xing or LinkedIn and send them a very short message. Headline : would you help me Mr xyz? Content : I'm trying to understand the problems of the xzy industry and your name appeared. Could you do me a great favor and answer on one quick...
  18. Rincewind

    What Will Boom? - 2018-2023

    HOT! 
    If you want to invest some time, you should read "The Inevitable". The author describes 12 major developments that are very likely to happen within the next years. I read it last year and it opened my eyes to some developments already on the way.
  19. Rincewind

    Getting in the "zone" or "flow"

    MINDSET 
    I use the pomodoro technique. Set a timer for 25min and allow for 5min of distraction when done. Start again. The breaks are important. Getting into the zone once is not that complicated. But sustaining it over the day is. For organising everything around that, I use some parts of the "Getting...
  20. Rincewind

    I've Read UNSCRIPTED!

    GOLD! HOT! 
    I just finished the book on audible. Great work! Thank you MJ for writing such a great book again! Luckily (?) there was no big news for me in it. But it confirmed all the things I learned within the last 15 years about business, life and happiness. I'm still not doing all the right things in...
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