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Faris Zacina•Feb 6, 2020•Founder Playbook

Entrepreneurship is the best way to move societies and economies forward. It’s the vessel of creation and progress. Entrepreneurs are the makers that create new value and distribute it across society. They create a balance between makers and takers. If we look at things from a perspective of individualism we conclude a startup is about two founders and a bunch of people making money. That is a limited perspective. By creating my company Ministry of Programming we created dozens of millions o

Faris Zacina•Jan 27, 2020•Founder Playbook

There is a trendy opinion that all meetings are useless. That is one more example of destructive “binary thinking”. Very few things in business and life can be classified as absolutely good or bad. If a meeting has a clear purpose and objective, as well as outputs/outcomes, it is certainly useful. Most meetings don’t have the above, so they are useless. Meetings to communicate and discuss things are very often a waste of time and can be substituted by an e-mail exchange or a slack message.

Dino Trnka•Dec 2, 2019•Founder Playbook

There are plenty of reasons why people network with each other. It allows you to meet new people, to learn, to teach, maybe just to look cooler. More than anything, it allows you to collaborate on something bigger, with people you like. But how to prove that you’re an expert in what you do, and therefore worthy of a collaboration? Embrace your skill set We’re so used to our own skills that we sometimes assume everyone has them. This makes us have tunnel vision, thinking we’re only capable of

Dino Trnka•Nov 27, 2019•Founder Playbook

We’ve all heard the phrase “Work smarter, not harder”. But what does it actually mean? Does it mean that you don’t have to work hard in order to achieve the best results and advance in your career? Or it means that you need to pay attention to what things you focus on? In the book “Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better and Achieve More”, author Morten T. Hansen, who has been ranked as one of the world’s most influential management thinkers by European Business Forum Thinkers 50

Faris Zacina•Nov 8, 2019•Founder Playbook

There are many myths and unicorns in the startup world, and one of the most pervasive ones is the myth that you can recruit the top 1% in your city if you make a really great effort. You might believe it is possible to hire a team of 3–5 people in Stockholm or SF in a month or less for any startup. Unless you are extremely well connected and persuasive the odds are against you, and there is a very high chance that it’s just a recruitment delusion. My VC told me to hire a local team Most VC’