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Artiklar och bloggposter jag tycker du ska läsa under april 2015.

Långsiktiga regler behövs för att goda idéer ska få växa
Det nya näringslivets behov. Både höger- och vänsterreformer har gjort Sverige till en ledande entreprenörsnation. Men politisk polarisering och oförutsägbarhet ­hotar nu förutsättningarna för ett modernt, innovativt företagande. För oss behövs ­stabilitet och långsiktiga spelregler, skriver sex svenska entreprenörer.

Alternative energy will no longer be alternative
Rebranding is always a tricky exercise, but for one field of technology 2013 will be the year when its proponents need to bite the bullet and do it. That field is alternative energy. The word “alternative”, with its connotations of hand-wringing greenery and a need for taxpayer subsidy, has to go. And in 2013 it will. “Renewable” power will start to be seen as normal.

What Jay Z’s Tidal can and cannot do for musicians
Instead, one of the biggest challenges for artists is how little they get from the labels that hold the copyrights to their recordings. Typically, labels treat streams the same way they do sales, which means artists receive 10% to 20% of their label’s take. But those payments don’t start until after the label has recovered the advances paid and expenses covered, which for some artists happens around the 12th of Never.

Ehandelspodden intervjuar Erik Byrenius, Onlinepizza
Resan med Onlinepizza startade under studietiden i Linköping som ett sommarprojekt 2005 efter att de sett ett typiskt student-bakis-på-söndagen-behov, att de verkligen ville ha pizza men utan att gå och hämta – och betala med kort. Utan särskilt stora planer på att göra det till ett riktigt företag, så blev det ändå så till slut. Med hjälp av att bygga hårdvara (en beställningsskrivare till restaurangerna), rondell-reklam med ihopsatta a4-papper så lyckades de tillslut med det ambitiösa målet de satt upp efter första sommaren om att ”dubbla studiebidraget”. Och resten är, som man brukar säga, historia. För tre år sedan sålde de bolaget till Delivery Hero för mellan 250-500 miljoner kr.

Anders Borgs recept: Mer invandring och sänkt optionsskatt
Han vill se skattesänkningar på aktier och göra om reglerna för personaloptioner så att de beskattas som kapital i stället för som lön. Detta för att anställda ska kunna locka kunniga människor till svenska företag.

Unpacking Etsy’s S1
The filing didn’t disappoint. Etsy is a powerful business with extraordinary network effects. Its customers are extremely loyal, and its committed sellers are earning significant income. But there are legitimate concerns: it is the quintessential case study on the challenge of low margin platforms.

Insights from Etsy’s S-1 filing
The most successful startups build a large organic channel without a heavy reliance on paid marketing.

The energy future, as seen from Denmark
Denmark has committed to renewable energy further and faster than any country in Europe. The Scandinavian nation generates a third of its annual electricity demand from wind, and solar capacity is growing as well. For countries that want to green their energy mix, there is no better place to get a glimpse of the future than Denmark.

SaaS Metrics for fundraising
As investor requests pile up, the fundraising process can sometimes feel like a never ending series of fire drills. Having been through the process a few times we’ve created a list of the most common requests that we’ve seen from VCs.

Ways to think about market size
When you try to work out the market potential for something fundamentally new, you’re actually trying to resolve two, linked problems.First, you have to look past what it is now, and see how much better and cheaper it might become Second, you need to think about who would buy it now, and who else would buy it once it is better and cheaper, and how it might be used.

Artiklar och bloggposter jag tycker du ska läsa under februari 2015.

What’s table stakes in SaaS, anno 2015
The point that I made was that most of the tactics which smart SaaS entrepreneurs developed around 2007-2009 – inbound marketing, conversion optimization, lifecycle marketing, etc. – and which gave them a competitive edge at that time can no longer be used to gain a competitive advantage. This doesn’t mean that you should ignore these strategies. It’s exactly the contrary – you have to do all of this, and you have to do it excellently. But it doesn’t mean you’ll win, it’s necessary just for having a seat at the table.

How Amazon Tricks You Into Thinking It Always Has the Lowest Prices
“Amazon may not actually be the lowest-priced seller of a particular product in any given season,” the report reads, “but its consistently low prices on the highest-viewed and best-selling items drive a perception among consumers that Amazon has the best prices overall — even better than Walmart.”

Disney’s making a kids show about a retired 15-year-old eSports player
”With the popularity of video games and electronic sports, we’re thrilled to give our audience a new series that spotlights one of their biggest passions and features fan-favorite star Cameron Boyce,” said Adam Bonnett, executive vice president of original programming for Disney Channels Worldwide. ”We are bringing the video game universe to life and giving our popular multi-camera series a fresh, new twist by integrating gaming visual effects into each episode.”

Bigger than Hollywood
”Put another way, in 2014 iOS app developers earned more than Hollywood did from box office in the US. Although the totals for Domestic (US) Box Office are not the complete Hollywood revenues picture, Apple’s App Store billings is not the complete App revenue picture either. The Apps economy includes Android and ads and service businesses and custom development. Including all revenues, apps are still likely to be bigger than Hollywood.”

Chart dump: Apple’s monster quarter
Charts, charts, charts…

The state of consumer fintech
”One thing that becomes clear is that while some companies have multiple products that target different activities involved in consumer finance, there’s no one company that does all of this. For example, there’s no tech company that allows users to both invest in stocks and bond and also take loans. Similarly, there’s no company that both gives users short term credit (credit cards) and also let them invest in the markets. Simple is an all-in-one bank, but even then that focused on the consumption side of banking, allowing for easy sending, spending and access to spending information, but it did not allow users to invest in the markets or take loans. This is how consumer banking is being “unbundled” — a bank is being broken up into its key activities, and products are emerging which do those key activities better/cheaper than banks.”

The unbundling of commercial banks
”The small business and commercial loans market is probably the one being disrupted the quickest by technology, with a number of startups emerging to compete with banks in this space, relying on different information to underwrite loans than banks have traditionally used.”

The algorithmic CEO
”The single greatest instrument of change in today’s business world, and the one that is creating major uncertainties for an ever-growing universe of companies, is the advancement of mathematical algorithms and their related sophisticated software. Never before has so much artificial mental power been available to so many—power to deconstruct and predict patterns and changes in everything from consumer behavior to the maintenance requirements and operating lifetimes of industrial machinery. In combination with other technological factors—including broadband mobility, sensors, and vastly increased data-crunching capacity—algorithms are dramatically changing both the structure of the global economy and the nature of business.”

6:1 metoden för att inte bränna ut sig
”Tomas Sjödin skriver i en av sina böcker att han sedan han började med ett vilodygn känner han igen ”dunket av en urgammal livsrytm”. Att sköta sina sysslor sex av veckans dagar och vila den sjunde ingår i flertusenåriga religioner, även i Skapelseberättelsen. Prästen Tomas Sjödin säger dock: ”Jag tror inte ens det är en religiös tanke. Det är vår allra äldsta livsrytm”.