... meant I needed a real differentiator. The obvious one was embedded systems, since that's what I've done for years. I set it in a fictional port city, New Foundry, in January 2007, one year before the recession hit: It's January 2007. New Foundry is a rain-slick port city where the container cranes never sleep and the server farms hum all night. The old iron foundries that gave the city its name are galleries now; the money ...

... After Spotify celebrated its 20th anniversary with a new logo (the Spotify disco ball), it was criticised by many people, and dozens of other brands followed suit , also making a disco logo as a form of recession. I don't think it was that bad. I'm not a graphic designer, and I can see that the contrast there is not good, but I still think there are many worse designs and rebrands. Which rebrands do you remember as catastrophically ...

... Dalton! A jolly, pudgy feller from the Midwest who allegedly brings good luck and fortune due to recessive traits. The idea for Lifeline Protocol came to me one night when I realized that if the world fell apart tomorrow, I d have no plan and no chance of keeping my family safe. I figured I couldn t be the only one who d fail that test miserably. So my brain did what it does best and started building solutions instead ...

... your initial approach - 12 startups in 12 months) build the most barebones version of each idea quickly (e.g. 1 month per idea) and see if it gets traction/paying customers? How did you ultimately narrow down on building PhotoAI/InteriorAI vs the many other AI types of tools you could have built? Suggestion regarding EU: I feel the biggest change for the EU will happen when the populace elects younger people to political power. Ideally people under 35-40 that actually understand ... ... chance for a decent living. Do we really need to replicate that, or rather should find a new model? As for general deregulation, we should be very careful, as it can be used by mentioned monopolies to block new competitors

... Until just a couple of years ago, most of the companies were marketing driven, or sales driven. Now everytime a recession (or a slowdown) hits, enterprise becomes scrappy. Sometimes, that can cause a systemic shift that stays. Like self serve restaurants (from Great Depression if 1930s). In the hyper-connected digital world of today, the thing that will get affected the most is how Software gets built. Old Way: Most teams relay on bug tracking, or task management. Specs ...