Henrik Berggren

Been waiting for these…

Henrik — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:22:50 +0000

Readmill in Spiegel

Henrik — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:35:19 +0000

RIP

Henrik — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:27:13 +0000

Meeting Paul Graham

Henrik — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:38:50 +0000

was pretty cool

Travels

Henrik — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 07:42:55 +0000

Been around the us for a while and i’m just about to go back. Here are some recent shots:

Readmill in Wall Street Journal

Henrik — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:41:29 +0000

I was quite stunned. Link.

Great quote from Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh

Henrik — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:28:30 +0000

The unified energy and emotion of everyone in the room was reminiscent of when I’d attended my first rave ten years earlier, where I’d witnessed thousands of people dancing in unison, with everyone feeding off of each other’s energy.

Highlighted by Henrik Berggren in Delivering Happiness

Just released sharing of highlights over at Readmill - check it out!

How do I get excited? A reply to @fascinated

Henrik — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:20:02 +0000

I got an email from my friend Anthony Volodkin the other day, he had just published a post trying to explain how he get’s excited about new ideas and companies. Anthony, who is a person I deeply respect for being super smart forwarded his thoughts and asked if I could jot down some thoughts of my own. So I did:

I’ve actually thought about this quite a lot over the weekend as well as talking to people around me about how they see it. But it was harder than I thought to find a pattern among ideas and startups that I like and envy. When things are hard to formulate I usually scale back and make a list, so here it is:

Team

For me the team is super important. Is it people i trust? Are they smart? Will they turn the idea into something great? Remember, ideas are worth absolutely nothing, it’s what you make of them that’s valuable.

Design

It doesn’t have to be visual but design is, for me as a product person, what makes a difference. Could be the flow of data, the snappyness, the tech or just plain old beauty. Design definitely lights my fire.

Story

Something that defines the relationship between the founders and the idea. This relationship makes the startup into a movement that you want to follow. Examples are SoundCloud, Airbnb and Twitter.

I think those three things are the most important for me. How about you?

Off site in Côte d’Azur

Henrik — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 21:41:57 +0000

This post is coming live from Côte d’Azur. We’ve spent the last week outside of Cannes, France on a so called off site hackathon. It’s the first time I’ve ever been on and organized one and it’s been very exciting. When you manage to spend every waken hour 7 days in a row together with the people you work with without going insane you know you’ve found a good team. Heck, I’m even sharing a bed with David due to limited space Being able to do outdoor stuff during the day and then spend each evening hacking is a great way of getting a lot of stuff done and keep your creativity going. If I ever start a company from scratch again this is how I would kick it off.

Time to stage some new features!

Oh, and I finally finished Shantaram today, check my reading here!

Sum up

Henrik — Thu, 26 May 2011 08:44:53 +0000

I realized today when I was out running that I haven’t actually written much about what has happened during the last few months with moving to Berlin, spending time with a great team and building a service around ebooks. Btw, Berlin is a great place to be running In, especially late evenings like tonight. I usually go along Schiffbauerdamm all the way to Hauptbahnhof and then back to Torstraße 99 where I live. On a great day this is what it looks like:

When not running I spend all time I can working on Readmill which Is a social sharing and recommendation plugin for ebook readers. We’re sharing an office on Brunnenstrasse 9A with the guys behind Eye’Em, which is a worthy instagram/path/color competitor doing really cool stuff around streams of pictures. It’s a great office right by Rosenthalerplatz that we clean to little, sleep in to often and will have a party in on Friday!

The team behind Readmill is a team I enjoy everyday. Andreas with his amazing designs, Christoffer and his js magic, David keeping it all together and Martin hacking like there was no tomorrow. And Lars, our new grade A CCC devops. It’s really a privilege to see everyone coming in every single morning to solve problems and keep on making things better in a product for company that still has miles to go to achieve it’s goals. But with everyones help it might just work out.

The left over time I spend with my hacker friends Eric, Johannes, David, Alex, Team Amen and lot’s of other cool Berliners.

Looking forward to blogging more about Readmill/Berlin.