Author: Jacob Ukelson

Former executive at large public companies (IBM, Informatica, CA) and startups (ActionBase, ConicIT, Dapper, eXeedTechnologies, Itemfield). Seasoned multidisciplinary executive, CTO, VP Products, focusing on technology market. Jacob has a D.Sc. in CS which provide the background to evaluate innovative cyber security companies.

Emergent Platform Approach is Best

The best way to create a platform combines an immediate solution approach with an emergent platform play. It requires a market ripe for a platform (see my earlier post on how to recognize the signs), integrating existing solutions (and yes, even some of the walking dead) using an initial platform built on the fly and […]

The Accidental Platform

Creating a platform is the embodiment of the chicken and egg problem. If there are no consumers – producers have no one to sell to. If there are no producers, consumers have nothing to buy. Starting a platform is not always intuitive and always hard, so most (especially technology-oriented) entrepreneurs opt for building a point […]