Welcome to Viktor's Weekly! This is where we will explore the art of leadership and startups. Did your caring friend or colleague send you this email? Click HERE to sign up for free! Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing (Part 3) In his book The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People, Steven Covey states that “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” This sounds simple enough, but in my experience it’s far from easy. Most people can identify what their main thing should be....
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Welcome to Viktor's Weekly! This is where we will explore topics in and around leadership, product and technology. If you was forwarded this email, please got to https://www.nyblom.io/newsletter to read previous issues and subscribe. The Not-Todo List Last year I was involved with a team building an AI Voice Notes app. The original idea was simple: create a tool that could transform voice recordings into well-crafted blog posts and tweets. With a team of smart people, our problem wasn’t...
4 months ago • 2 min read
Welcome to Viktor's Weekly! This is where we will explore topics in the intersection of strategy, product and technology. All done through the lens of my experiences from working in, running and investing in startups. Magical 1:1s Every week, leaders across the tech industry sit down for their 1:1s. These meetings should be transformative moments where careers take shape and leaders emerge. Instead, they often devolve into status updates, technical debates, or worse, they become dreaded...
4 months ago • 6 min read
Welcome to Viktor's Weekly! This is where we will explore topics in the intersection of strategy, product and technology. All done through the lens of my experiences from working in, running and investing in startups. Push and Pause I’m standing in the squat rack, about to attempt a new personal record. The weight on my back is heavy. Really heavy. I take a deep breath, brace my core, and descend into the squat. As I push back up, my lungs are screaming for air. But I can’t breathe yet. Not...
5 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome to Viktor's Weekly! This is where we will explore topics in the intersection of strategy, product and technology. All done through the lens of my experiences from working in, running and investing in startups. Exceptional Talent Everyone wants exceptional talent. Yet most companies struggle to both find and retain truly exceptional people. After over a decade of building teams and companies, I’ve noticed we keep looking for the wrong signs! To many leaders, the exceptional employee...
5 months ago • 2 min read
Welcome to Viktor's Weekly! This is where we will explore topics in the intersection of strategy, product and technology. All done through the lens of my experiences from working in, running and investing in startups. The Power Law of Focus Imagine two companies starting on the same day with the same amount of funding. Remember Inc decides to focus entirely on making the best medium widgets in the world. Forget Inc, on the other hand, sees multiple market opportunities and choose to make...
6 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome to Viktor's Weekly! This is where we will explore topics in the intersection of strategy, product and technology. All done through the lens of my experiences from working in, running and investing in startups. Shaping Who You Become: Three Decisions That Changed Everything We often talk about career transitions as if they were carefully planned moves on a chess board. Some people might do that, but the reality is often messier. Looking back at my journey from developer to leader to...
6 months ago • 4 min read
Welcome to Viktor's Weekly! This is where we will explore topics in the intersection of strategy, product and technology. All done through the lens of my experiences from working in, running and investing in startups. The Quitting Problem During a conversation with a fellow coach this week, I had a realization that shook me to my core. For the past five years, I’ve been clinging to an identity as “the person who made it,” and with that, reluctant to put myself in situations where that...
6 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome to Viktor's Weekly! This is where we will explore topics in the intersection of strategy, product and technology. All done through the lens of my experiences from working in, running and investing in startups. From Output to Outcome Back in 2018, I joined Doktor.se, one of Sweden’s fastest-growing healthtech companies, as Android Lead. One thing that puzzled me was how rarely I saw our CTO. He spent most of his time in meetings outside of the team rather than looking at code or...
6 months ago • 2 min read