Looking for a good book about how you can work with communities? Here are some great books you should have on your shelf from people who’ve been involved in the creation and management of really powerful communities, which is something I deeply respect. Many of these books are available freely. I do have one request before you jump in: Even …

You might not have heard of Font Awesome,  a font and icon toolkit made by Dave Gandy for use with Twitter Bootstrap, but you’ve probably seen their work everywhere on the Internet without even noticing. If you don’t know them, here are some incredible things they’ve achieved: Font Awesome has a 20% market share among those websites which use third-party …

Remember how Amazon, Uber and Airbnb ran over physical retail, taxis and hotels with no one understanding what was happening to them? If you are in the business of creating technology, designs, processes or education, you’ve got a similar tsunami coming that will force you to rethink your business. And this tsunami is Open Source. Once there is an open source …

How could you go from almost no traction and running out of money, to getting millions of visitors to your website. You could do like Crew accidentally did with Unsplash: Creating an open source side project that directs millions of visitors to your paid product. At their beginnings, when they were starting a marketplace for freelancers, they couldn’t find a …

We all know that the world faces several environmental and social crisis. Isn’t it crazy that, even if it’s public knowledge, it’s so hard to collectively create positive alternatives to the society we have? Why it’s so hard to make social / open source / circular economy businesses work when we need them so much ? Why is money still …

Do you wonder how to make money with Open Source Hardware, without any Venture Capital Funding? Today I’m going to show you exactly how Adafruit became one of the fastest growing hardware manufacturers in the US for 3 years in a row so you can copy this EXACT strategy to make money with open source hardware and create a community …

When talking about business and ethics, someone always replies: “That’s nice, but I have to pay for <rent, bills, loans, a lifestyle I’ve grown used to…>” This idea comes from the very loud and over-represented examples of unethical behavior we see in the Media. People who keep behaving unethically, but do pretty well for themselves: Travis Kalanick who has created …

How can collaborative organisations “outrun” and perform better than the competitive society we live in? How can collaborative and cooperative startups, organisations or political ideas spread faster than the Ubers, Walmarts or Trumps of the world? This is something that I’ve been looking up to as a collaborative hippy wanting to make change happen. And for this I’ve always been …

Sounds pretty impossible, right? Creating a traditional business is a great struggle. Finding clients, polishing your product, making payroll, finding the right employees, automating processes… Since there are so many moving parts, you’re always wondering, “Where do I focus now? Am I doing the right things? What should I be doing next?” And if you are trying to build a …