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Business Storytelling

The “WHY” of your company

November 13, 2017November 16, 2017 Juriaan Karsten

Want to build a better business? Focus on the “why you do what you do” part of your company. Funs Jacobs knows branding and startups like none other. As he calls it: Branding is the most underutilized power that almost all startups overlook. Funs comes from the entertainment

Book Review Sales

Sales Machine – Getting referrals from customers

October 31, 2017October 31, 2017 Juriaan Karsten

This is a comprehensive book review of the book Hacking Sales by Max Altschuler. To be honest, this is not a comprehensive book review… Why I read in the first place I do not read books with the mission of trying to remember every little detail that is

Wishlist

A dream job bleuprint

October 23, 2017October 31, 2017 Juriaan Karsten

I have five minutes to write this, so I’ll have to be quick.. Why so little time you ask? Well, I’m going to ADE (Amsterdam Dance Event) with my girlfriend and her sister. I guess it’s going to be fun. But anyway. This was not what I wanted

Business Ideas

Nutbags – A new business idea

October 19, 2017October 31, 2017 Juriaan Karsten

This blog post is my first try at writing something with the Write or Die tool. The fun thing is that I have no idea what to write about while trying this tool. At first glance, I just thought: what the heck just go for it and see

Business

An upside down business model

September 22, 2017October 31, 2017 Juriaan Karsten

I short time ago I was thinking about business models and how these might change in the future. I was wondering how models around SaaS tools would change over time due to experimentation and just time passing by. Many SaaS tools tend to use the same model. They

Reflecting

Which Injection Would You Pick? And why?

August 16, 2017April 13, 2020 Juriaan Karsten

(Part of the 20minute blog challenge) Yesterday a good friend of mine sent me the picture below with the following text message: “Hi Jur, I know you like thought experiments so that’s why I’m wondering which injection you would pick?” Below is an overview of the answer I

The Future

A Fitbit for your brain

August 13, 2017December 22, 2020 Juriaan Karsten

(This is part of the 20 minutes blog challenge) For the past two months (since my birthday) I’ve been walking around with a Fitbit. The main purpose of this is device is to track my sleep and doing so in the laziest, least infringing way possible. People say

Reflecting

Join the Rat Race or Die

August 9, 2017April 13, 2020 Juriaan Karsten

(This post is part of the 20-minute blog challenge I set for myself: Write more blog posts but only post it if you can produce it in 20 minutes. Let’s see how it goes.) Silicon Valley Two months ago I was in Silicon Valley. The trip was amazing.

Mind Body Time

Principles contain codes

June 20, 2017 Juriaan Karsten

When you build a house, you need to construct it based the rules of nature. You can not add too much weight on a single wooden beam. You have to respect the rules of nature. When you don’t respect the rules, you crash and die. Principles are built

Mind Body Time

Pillars are made out of principles

June 20, 2017June 20, 2017 Juriaan Karsten

Even the smallest thing is made out of smaller things. Again, another question. Can we oversimplify life? The four pillars of MBT (Mind Body Time) are made out of principles. Principles are like the cement, the stone and the steel that hold the pillars together. To explain these

Mind Body Time

Constructing a philosophy on life

June 7, 2017June 7, 2017 Juriaan Karsten

What are we? In the beginning, there is one question and one question only. “What are we?” The Philosophy of Mind Body Time gives the following answer: We are simply a mind packed in a brain carried around by our body in time and surroundings. What is MBT?

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