Tag: startup

12 August 2013 / Agile & Scrum
A sharing economy business idea for you

Too many ideas, not enough time! A sentence many of us know, many of us feel, and many of us are sometimes frustrated about. One of those fine ideas I had when going through a Gamification track was related to what is known as collaborative consumption or a sharing economy. At the time I explored the idea, I was very charmed by the thoughts behind...

11 December 2012 / Leadership & Management
The Intersection of Business, Education and Innovation

As the blog has mentioned at various points, different innovations and startups have different metrics for success. This makes a formulaic approach to entrepreneurship all but impossible, though there are certain trends that crop up from time to time. Writer Emma Collins explores one such trend today as she discusses the present and future viability of the booming education technology startup sector. When she is...

26 October 2012 / Agile & Scrum
Startup with legal questions? Check out these free seminars in Brussels!

During our training sessions for startups we've been getting an increasing number of questions concerning legal details for starting a company. But we're not lawyers so we were sad that we couldn't help out answering these questions and had to point people to possibly expensive legal aid. Then we found out about a great initiative by Startups.be partner the Betagroup Coworking Brussels and Field Fisher Waterhouse, who have partnered...

2 October 2012 / Agile & Scrum
Entrepreneurs Design Their Metrics for Success

Something we do together with our partner for the Belgian startup and entrepreneurial community is what we call the “Startup Coaching Retreats” and is based on similar principles as all the above but focused on the needs of entrepreneurs with a startup company. – see report of our first run ‘here‘  - Participation for the ones we do in Belgium is managed by IBBT Entrepreneurship and this event...

18 July 2012 / Less is More
A fresh start – a new logo!

Some things should not be rushed. A new logo, for example. We let our designer propose several new logo's that represent what co-learning stands for. She came up with some neat stuff, so we crowdsourced it via the facebook group and the twitter account. This way our clients and collaborators could let us know what they thought about it, worthy of an agile startup (winkwink)....