What I've learned as a developer, designer, and small-scale CEO.

Hi, I am Dominik 👋

Within the last 10 years, I’ve always been building products and businesses. I often found myself with a seemingly great idea but stuck in the process of bringing it to life. I’ve experienced, questioned, and learned a lot in the meantime and managed to get over this stage many times already. I learned that much is possible when you put in the time and effort needed. Within my articles, I share notes, learnings, and actionable advice to tread the path for others to follow. Take care! — Dominik

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Welcome! Please Read This First

Thank you for being here. I'm currently updating my website and you're seeing the beginning of my new blog. Let me quickly introduce you to what I have in mind.

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Books

Every Business Book I Ever Read

For the past few years, I've read many books that I gained value from. I take notes, yet time lets me forget what was once valuable to me when reading it. This article is my personal antidote: A high-level overview containing my key summaries from each of these books.

MBA Studies

How To Incorporate The Future Into Your Strategy

The future is uncertain, yet we act in some way or another toward our expectations of what may happen. This article explores tools and strategies to make better predictions about the future – to reduce uncertainty – and to prepare for it.

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(Mega-)Trends and How To Manage Them

Trends inevitably happen in our world, be they man-made or not, and they may impact our business and ourselves. We can surrender to these waves or we can learn to recognize and swim them successfully. This article dives into megatrends and how to structure the trends that matter to you.

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Tools For Understanding Your Strategic Environment

Understanding your company's environment is crucial to formulate a well-thought-out strategy. In this article, we'll dive into two popular tools, namely Michael Porter's five forces framework and the PESTEL analysis, to guide us in doing so.

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The Need For Strategy In a Dynamic World

Having a clear strategy is now more important than ever. This article outlines the groundwork – most famously by Michael E. Porter – for strategy as thought in many MBA studies as well as a scientific framework to shape it.

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Mission-, Vision-, and Strategy Statements – What They Are and How To Craft Them

Many executives thrash about with mission- and vision statements. Unfortunately, most of those turn out to be a muddled stew of values, goals, purposes, philosophies, beliefs, aspirations, strategies, and descriptions. This article aims to clarify such statements and help you craft your own.

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Global Expansion and the CAGE Distance Framework

The CAGE Distance Framework offers a set of attributes to consider when evaluating the attractiveness of foreign markets. In this article, I'll explain the framework and provide some examples to apply it to a software product.

Management

How To Be Employed At Your Own Swiss Company

When founding your company, you become its first employee and likely want to pay yourself a salary. Doing so comes with legal duties and responsibilities, that I'll cover in this article with actionable tips and knowledge.

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Company Valuation: An Overview for Founders and Owners

As a founder, I was confronted with the need to estimate a company's or project's value many times already. This article aims to equip founders and owners with the knowledge and tools to do so competently.

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