Björn Jeffery

A fantastic speaker from last week’s GRID conference. (via GRID 12) (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

The acquisition of Sparrow has caused quite a stir, and rightfully so I think. I’m also an enthusiastic user and was disappointed to learn that the product would no longer be developed or maintained. At the same time, it raised an interesting point about entrepreneurs´ motives and requirements to keep their businesses running. Marco Arment wrote the following: It’s frustrating when a product or service you like goes out of business, and that’s effectively what […]

I’ve been using a lot of Uber lately, and have been thinking about the service even more. Being a new resident of San Francisco, the unreliability of taxis is something that takes a little getting used to. You call a cab and, if you’re lucky, eventually it shows up. More often than not, it doesn’t. This is not a problem most of the time since you just hail a cab on the street and if it […]

All I care ‘bout is money and the city that I’m from I realize that I probably shouldn’t dive too deep into the meaning of contemporary R&B lyrics, but this is a thought that has stuck with me for a while. Since I moved to the US I’ve heard so many people refer to where they are from, and often how proud they are of this. No matter where it is. This is one of […]

A Yayoi Kusama x Louis Vuitton pumpkin. (via Photo by fionaspruill • Instagram)

A Yayoi Kusama x Louis Vuitton pumpkin. (via Photo by fionaspruill • Instagram)

Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” single, which tops the Hot 100, this week moved 296,000 downloads, according to SoundScan, while another version by an artist listed as “Here’s My Number So” sold more than 27,000 downloads of an identically named song in the same week. Both songs are listed at $1.29 on iTunes. For the most part, these covers try to sound exactly like the hit single they’re reworking, and the more successful ones […]

We once talked about success and failure, during which time he relayed what someone in India had said to him: “Only if there is a large problem is there a large opportunity.” Roux laughed out loud, which he did often, and then said: “Isn’t that wonderful? That is now my auto-signature at the bottom of my emails from my iPad, because I think it is so valid.” It’s a maxim he lived by, and which […]

A month or so ago I was interviewed about the future of luxury. Not exactly my regular topic of expertise, but I wrote a piece about it for David Report in 2007 and it still ranks high on Google. It seems not much future has happened there for a while. Either way, I came to think about it when I read this article in The Economist about counterfeits. It refers to studies around purchasing counterfeited […]

Making a good prediction is hard – even in the short term. Gartner knows this. However, what makes it good is not working out what is going to happen but rather when it will happen. Or even more interesting – when it will happen, why it happens just then – and what someone should or could do about it. That would be a good prediction. Some examples of bad predictions are for instance saying that […]