I am no visionary, no philosopher, and no master chess player who can see beyond 3 moves, I am dead serious ! But there are a few fundamentals I can't ignore however dumb I might be 😆 "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" - Third Newton Law What's the action I am talking about ? The AI revolution we are going through. It's so present, most LinkedIn posts and even comments are written with AI. Of course, if you could have chat with AI, there is no limit. We are and will be...
2 days ago • 1 min read
Last week with our French Tech Sofia squad we organised the first edition of the annual awards. It was epic. Thanks to Wilfried Durand - VP of FTS and one of the first subscribers of this newsletter, we had as a feature speaker Jonathan Anguelov, founder of European unicorn Aircall. Jonathan delivered an inspirational talk about his journey and the message from his book "Nothing to lose". Many people in Bulgaria had no idea who he was, and in some cases even if they did, they weren't aware of...
3 days ago • 1 min read
The past two months, all my activities were disrupted, I could blame it on many things, in reality only myself, but then I keep remembering this Chinese proverb: He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived A lot has happened, and a lot more is about to happen. I will be doing a 30-day challenge as an experiment, the goal is get back to my most disciplined self, I know I can be, because I've had those...
4 days ago • 1 min read
For years I misunderstood how trust actually works and naively imagined it's about doing good, being serious, and delivering what was promised. While this is important, it was not enough. So what's enough ? We are engineers we need a number ! 📚 The Zero Moment of Truth I discovered this concept first from Daniel Priestly (Key Person of Influence) which referred to a research Google made "The Zero Moment of Truth", marketers started to call it "The 7-11-4 Rule" (which typically states that...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
From how our human brain is primed to memorise information thanks to storytelling format, leading to remembering the beginning and the end of a story… but what about the middle?… well it’s messy. I loved reading “The Messy Middle” a few years ago, a book by the founder of Behance, Scott Belsky, who shared his philosophy and journey leading to the acquisition by Adobe. What struck a chord with me was how he put the light on an unseen period of a business. Typically removed from the montage of...
3 months ago • 4 min read
Last week, my wife (and former co-founder) responded to an opening of a speaking spot at a local event organized by French Tech Sofia. Full disclosure, I am a volunteer at FT Sofia, and no it's not that we offer advantages to family members to get a speaking spot, it's that she has been generously (and silently) supporting the new event format (2 keynote speakers followed with a networking) since its inception by providing the beautiful lightbox display and graphics. It was her first time...
3 months ago • 4 min read
Two times I didn't press "Publish". The moment I overthink what to write, the odds of publishing skyrocket. Our old demons 👹 lurk in the dark, waiting for that moment of weakness to whisper doubts. Yet here I am, first things first ! Gratitude Exactly this time last year, I went against all internal warnings 🚨 to deliver "Positioning Hacked" keynote for technical entrepreneurs. That first leap put me on track to host "The One-liner Seminar", started to write this (almost) weekly newsletter,...
4 months ago • 2 min read
Yesterday, was a special day to me, we got together with 4 members of the "Engineers Can Talk" community, 3 took the stage to share their talk. We listened, asked questions, then had a dinner where we socialized, shared stories and got to know each other better. It felt so good to give the stage to other Entrepreneurial Engineers, they led the program making it feel "alive" ! In short Insight 1 : Talking about the root-cause vs Talking about the Symptoms Insight 2 : Talking is like a radar...
5 months ago • 2 min read
This week, I posted this message on the Skool Community for community founders, it helps me get visibility on the platform and it sparkled a great response and so many cool conversations. I am pasting the post as it is (just added the GIFs to keep our tradition here 😁 ) Yesterday, I witnessed something really cool.During an in-person roundtable discussion, I watched one of my community members, who happened to be there too, share his one-liner. The response from a participant was like...
5 months ago • 2 min read
