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Nick Holzherr
Nick Holzherr

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Aug 4, 2021

Async communication is what *really* unlocks productivity

I believe asynchronous working practices dramatically improve productivity and benefit the personal lives of team members, but most teams and companies pay far too little attention to it. The pandemic has prompted a surge in distributed work but the real productivity benefits are driven when adopting an asynchronous approach. Many…

Asynchronous

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Async communication is what *really* unlocks productivity
Async communication is what *really* unlocks productivity
Asynchronous

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Jun 16, 2021

Our annual company retreat turned virtual this year. We met inside a game.

The COVID pandemic forced us to replace our in-person offsite retreat with a virtual retreat. Here’s what I learnt. In 2016 we decided to make Whisk a 100% distributed company. Instead of having everyone in an office our team can work from anywhere in the world. Today we have over…

Virtual Space

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Our annual company retreat turned virtual this year. We met inside a game.
Our annual company retreat turned virtual this year. We met inside a game.
Virtual Space

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·Feb 15, 2017

Why I’m experimenting with remote work.

I’ll be experimenting with working remotely for the next 3–4 months — working from co-working spaces in Australia, Japan, Vietnam and India. This blog post is about why. Over the last 24 months our team has organically moved towards a more and more globally distributed team. …

Remote Working

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Why I’m experimenting with remote work.
Why I’m experimenting with remote work.
Remote Working

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·Aug 2, 2016

Good artists copy, great artists steal: building a successful venture

Something that has fascinated me since starting to build companies is how certain companies do extremely well very quickly, while others fail slowly. Particularly fascinating is how some of the most successful companies are not really building anything ground-breakingly new. We should all strive to succeed with more certainty There’s…

Startup

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Good artists copy, great artists steal: building a successful venture
Good artists copy, great artists steal: building a successful venture
Startup

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·May 27, 2016

Oh, there’s a spreadsheet for that: Investors to pitch

Looking to pitch your business to new investors? There are lists for that. These will save you some serious time. 1. Crowd-sourced Investor List An amazing list by people involved in Techstars, made viral on twitter, then filled out by loads of people in London. This one has sheets between Company Builders, VCs, Loans, Angel Groups, Angels, Crowdfunding and Accelerators. URL: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10S7_jBpRoWuNMnOYpkjFJArt76dPhFw0tIR7E_ndgnk/edit#gid=221563747

Startup

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Oh, there’s a spreadsheet for that: Investors to pitch
Oh, there’s a spreadsheet for that: Investors to pitch
Startup

1 min read


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·Jan 23, 2016

Writing a great pitch deck

When explaining your business to potential investors you’re probably being asked for a pitch deck for review. Crafting one that communicates the vision well in the average 3 minutes and 44 seconds that investors spend on your deck can often take more than a few weeks! …

Startup

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Writing a great pitch deck
Writing a great pitch deck
Startup

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·Jan 23, 2016

Become a better startup founder: blogs and courses

Most successful people recognise the importance of self improvement. Especially when starting out, it can be hard to know what content to learn in order to prepare yourself to run a startup. Personally I find that going through this content again while running a startup is very useful also. This…

Startup

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Become a better startup founder: blogs and courses
Become a better startup founder: blogs and courses
Startup

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·Oct 26, 2014

Marketing: When to start and how much to spend

The discussion often arises between company founders around the questions “when shall I start marketing hard?” or “how much shall I spend on marketing?” In the early days, investors and friends often asked why we didn’t do more heavy marketing but my gut instinct always told me to hold off…

Startup

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Marketing: When to start and how much to spend
Marketing: When to start and how much to spend
Startup

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·Oct 26, 2014

Overnight success can take years

Unless you’re lucky, it takes a lot more time than you and maybe your investors first think in order to get a tech startup to become highly successful and begin on the path of hockey-stick growth. When you leave behind the opportunity of a highly paid job you’ll get both…

Startup

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Overnight success can take years
Overnight success can take years
Startup

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·Oct 26, 2014

Compound learning

I find the concept that learning and achievements compound very motivating, and thought it was worth writing a short post on it. “If others would think as hard as I did, they would get similar results” Isaac Newton Consider this (unrealistic) equation for a moment. If you improve by 1%…

Learning

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Compound learning
Compound learning
Learning

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CEO of Whisk.com, acquired by Samsung.

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