Making sense of our connected world
About the challenge of developing a new sales methodology
Internet-enabled startup entrepreneurs are often faced with the challenge of bringing their ideas to the market and developing a suitable sales strategy for their products or services. A potential risk…
Startup Funding for the Post-Growth Era
Exploring sources of capital that do not impose the dogma of growth and scalability Investing capital in a business is a risky venture — particularly so when the company is…
How to hire the best people for your startup
The #1 HR challenge most startups talk about is recruiting. An entrepreneur’s job is to hire a world-class team. As soon as a small company grows, finding the right people…
Unicorns never stand still – Why business model innovation is so important to startups
In many tales since ancient times, unicorns have been regarded as magic creatures with special powers that are hard to be tamed. In 2013, Cowboy ventures analysed US-based tech firms…
Civil Security Research and the Internet
“The worldwide web offers all the prerequisites needed to undermine all citizens’ fundamental rights in this country being enshrined in the first ten articles of our constitution. This is particularly…
Do Internet startups need sales?
“We’re adding a little something to this month’s sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anybody want to see second prize? Second prize is a…
Digital innovation and entrepreneurship
Increasingly, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are investing in digital technologies to respond to the rapid changes that are now affecting almost all sectors of life and work. Many SMEs take this step either to realign their business model, to make their processes more efficient or simply because they are forced to do so by structural change and altering customer needs. But what concrete activities and strategies do SMEs pursue in terms of digital innovation? What are the different approaches? What exactly do successful digitisation projects look like in medium-sized companies? In our dossier we get to the bottom of these and other questions.
Work in the digital age
The future of work is now. We work side by side with intelligent technologies. Does that frighten us or does it give us courage? Automation and AI are changing the world of work. How will we work tomorrow, and who gets a say? No machine can give us the answers. At least for now. The issue in focus “work in the digital age” was created in 2017 during the research project Competing and Complementing – The Relation of Co-determination and new Participatory Platforms within Companies. Among others, the research project Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge Work – Implications, Opportunities And Risks currently investigates the future of work.
