The 'Out of Office' message is deployed and I am leaving for my summer vacation. See you in 3 weeks time. Enjoy your summer ☀️😎.

If you ever wondered what from a product startegy POV makes Palantir so successful, just look no further than her: On how they work with Onthology. 1/ www.palantir.com/docs/foundry...

Apart from sincerely hoping this is not true, this is what a government bailout of a troubled, over-invested private company looks like, as it tries to save itself from an imminent crash. (Other evidence: OpenAI apparently is already discussing something similar) www.reuters.com/business/tru...

What do you do when you have over-invested in a technology, and you desperately need to show customers that their investment - and yours - is not the biggest mis-allocation of capital in human history? 🤔 I got it! 💡😃 www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/m...

Final day at the office before 3 weeks of long awaited and well deserved vacation knocks on the door. Still quite a lot of stuff to get done before I hit the beach (or whatever the Danish summer allows...)

Claude came through and delivered on the starting point, I needed for an analytics and progress tracking project, I am working on. It might have taken a few hours due to exhausting the limit of tokens in my personal subscription and having to wait to continue. But it was well worth the wait. 1/

Apparently asking Claude to analyze across 6 different dimensions, 9 levels per dimension with 6-8 suggested action items and rationale behind them for each level on each dimension and then repeating the whole thing across two other bespoke industries with specific requirements was a bit much...

I think it shows great promise that young people are more sceptical about fully embracing and endorsing AI, not asking critical questions in the process. We need this critical approach, if we are to get the most out of AI without jeopardizing outselves. www.duperrin.com/english/2026...

Brilliant take-down of why vibe coding for most is little more than an expensive, socially isolating hobby with no real end product to show for it. medium.com/@michalmalew...

One of the hardest things for me is to find time for going really deep on a few select work items. But this is one of them; a day set aside for just that. Really looking forward. Hopefully it will be productive.

If ever there was a very good reason to buy, read and reflect on a book. I’ll for sure get a copy. 👇

People flock together in times of uncertainty. Just sad that for many it takes turmoil to recognize the value of being together in the EU. The union really need to work on its value proposition to the man/woman on the street.

One of the hardest things to address and get right in any research-based startup project is the founders commitment to the journey. Do they actually want to do this? Why? And why do they believe they are the right ones? 1/

Admin work settling expenses and registering your hours is a chore. On the other hand: If you expect other people to have their things in order, you need to lead by your own example. No excuses.

It’s funny to sometimes have to argue why a research-led startup should prioritize licensing their own IP from university ASAP after incorporation. The IP is the modt tangible early value, you have. 1/

June is coming to a close, and a much deserved (if I am to say it myself) summer vacation awaits from Friday. But before we get to that point, I reflect a bit on the month that passed and a super hectic and fun H1 of 2026. My monthly review is out. madsjvk.com/the-month-in...

Discussing a patent case entering into the national phase first thing this morning. It is always an interesting inflection point, because now a patent is starting to become real. 1/

One of my teams just got the word that they received an InnoFounder grant from Innovation Fund Denmark. It could not have happened to a better team. While they are busy solidifying their use cases for their technology, this will give them the room to cross the finish line and get to market.

Half-time of the year is also time for doing mid-way evaluations. Playing around with some ideas for how to look at softfunding grants going forward and pair them with outcomes. You never know where to adjust until you have really given the present methodology a good go.

How smart are AI agents really?... hbr.org/2026/06/teac...

This kind of sounds like a contradiction in terms... hbr.org/2026/06/ai-a...

Happy to see that some of the stuff we're working on at DTU is seen as having a very large potential out there. Nice validation of the promise. Having said that it is safe to say that getting it right is complicated. Thankfully, we also have good answers for that. www.burrus.com/predictive-m...

This will not end well.

Final week at work before the summer vacation kicks in. Lots of things to do before then. I will not get to Inbox Zero - far from it - but I will make my best effort.

Finally weekend after a hot day and a super busy week at the office. Time to relax despite the current heat wave and then one more week to go before summer vacation kicks in.

As a founder there is a fine balance between living on nothing and feel entitled to live in a palace from day one. Neither approach does well over time. But operating from a principle of having to earn the right, before spending lavishly, is fundamentally healthy IMHO.

"I would like to be able to buy myself a pizza for my one week vacation in August." Some founders just have it on their spine, what it means to be in founder mode and make do with a minimum before the signals of interest mature into traction, revenue and the ability to pay a ordinary salary.

When was the last time someone with a massive amount of power and influence was really an independent 'blue flame' thinker?

Super busy day today. Last big push before summer vacation kicks in end of next week. There are a lot of things on the plate right now... 1/

Pitch training for the Proof-of-Concept grant today. Always super cool to hear the teams put words on their ambitions and progress.

Good catch-up meeting today on our project for how to better track the progress of the startups, we help and support every day. It's always a great feeling when needs and wants align across different stakeholders, and you can see a pattern emerging that could form the basis of a great tool.

Criticism should always be taken with a grain of salt, but Will Lockets write-up of the current state of the AI hype is still one of the best, I have read in a while. The wheels seem to be falling off this one. If the trip up was wild, wait for it to go down... 1/ medium.com/@wlockett/th...

Starting out the fresh week with a cancelled mentor meeting. It's the kind of things that happen. If a team does not feel prepared, better to postpone and then really get something out of it the next time. And more time free for me to do other things on the task list. Win-win.

Are your notes useful to you? Do you ever revisit them and get something out of them? How you make notes matter to the value of them. 1/ medium.com/the-smart-fo...

Normally I am not super fond of rollups, but if there was one area, where it might be interesting, it would be in digital health. Lots of really promising plays out there all lacking the ressources to make it across the Valley of Death. Interesting opportunity for someone with the ressources.

The KTH Innovation Readiness Summit 2026 is a wrap, and I am heading home to Copenhagen. Lots of things to unpack and keep reflecting upon to connect theory with practice. 1/

Super interesting to hear a few startup teams talk about how they are working with the KTH IRL framework to drive their startup case forward. Lots of potential, but a lot of it comes down to the human factor and the curiosity to learn through relentless execution.

Ready for the second and final day of the KTH Innovation Readiness Summit in Stockholm. Yesterday was really inspiring, and I am looking forward to more today and to share experiences with all the other practitioners from all over the world.

Super happy that the KTH Innovation Readiness framework is coming out with a new take on TMRL: Team Readiness Level. Having the right team is a super power just as important - maybe more - than having a killer technology in itself. The more we can help early stage teams form, the better.

Nothing like a crash course in the KTH Innovation Readiness framework at KTH Innovation to make it abundantly clear how much of a frickin' amateur one is at this very art. Very illuminating and inspiring.

First guy I meet at the KTH Innovation Readiness Summit as one of my fellow learners back from the very first Strategyzer Bootcamp hosted by Alexander Osterwalder. We haven't met in the 10 years since then. The world is indeed small.

On the early flight heading to Stockholm for the KTH Innovation Readiness Summit; 60 participants from 22 countries geeking out on how to measure and assess innovation readiness from lab to market. Looking so much forward to it. It’s going to be a blast.

Reading the new book by Eric Ries, “Incorruptible”. A lot of very solid points and a good diagnostics on the present situation of corporate shortterm’ism. But the problem remains: How to affect meaningful change? Those currently in control have little incentive to change and plenty of power.

I think the jury is very much out on this one. Albeit the rumblings from discouraged executives more and more seem to indicate that it is the latter. www.duperrin.com/english/2026...

Just got this for my Kindle. Looking forward to reading it.

Each day presents the chance to overthink things. Today, lets focus just on what's in front of us

Quote of the day: "We're here for the module. Not for the pizza." That's when you know you have motivated future founders in your workshop 🫡 🙏.

Sitting in on the first edition of our new Founder Motivation workshop, a key part of our work on developing a structured methodology for helping founders form the strongest possible startup teams. This one is a test. Looking forward to hear the feedback from the future founders attending.

Getting things done is never a process that follows a straight line. Assuming, through automation with AI, that it is, is IMHO a mistake.

Doing customer interviews for a new internal tool, we’re planning to help us support our startup teams better and more efficiently on the journey. Feels great to be getting a little of that dirty ‘building’-feeling again.