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David vs Goliath - Presentation from Emerce eDay
Last week I spoke at Emerce’s eDay conference in Rotterdam (Netherlands). Emerce reached out to me with the question: “How did Mozilla win?”. In the follow-up calls with the Emerce team we discussed the “David vs Goliath” situation in which Mozilla found itself, competing against Microsoft when we launched Firefox only six years ago, and how we managed to grow its userbase to a staggering roughly 500 million people using Firefox worldwide.
The presentation below is my humble attempt to explain this phenomenon. Granted you need the voice track to make complete sense of the presentation - but probably interesting nonetheless. Feel free to contact me if you have questions or comments.
Never Walk
During the inaugural Startup Week 2011 in Vienna, Austria, I had the great pleasure to talk about the intersection of two of my main passions: Business and Running (the other two are my family and good espresso).
Below the deck from my talk - I will put together a properly commented version sometime soon as the deck doesn’t stand very well on its own.
Innovate in the Open!
Today I had the great honor & pleasure of keynoting the Technology Convergence Conference 2012, talking about Open Innovation, Mozilla and how to apply all this to your business.
The summary of my talk reads:
Open Innovation, Crowd Sourcing, Community-driven Innovation, Chaords (describing organizations which are a mixture of Chaos and Order) - the world around us is using “open” as the new default. Fearless leaders are unleashing the beast which redefines the core of many innovation practices. Pascal Finette recounts the inspiring story of Mozilla, the Open Source non-profit organization which managed to break Microsoft’s stronghold on the browser market and today has more than 450 million users worldwide. Alongside this fascinating David vs Goliath tale you will learn how Mozilla won by being completely open, working with the wider community and redefining how innovation can be done. At the end of his session, Pascal will have enabled you to tame the beast and make it work for you and your organization.
Here’s the deck:
Innovate in the Open (TCC Keynote)
Here’s the video of my keynote at this year’s Teladata Technology Convergence Conference where I talked about “Innovate in the Open”.
Platform Wars at tl;dr Conference
A few days ago I had the great pleasure to talk at the inaugural tl;dr conference in San Francisco. The conference’s aim was to bring voices around the Post-PC revolution together.
In their own words:
With the launch of the iPhone we entered the era of the Post-PC device. This new generation of connected devices brought the promise of exciting new applications. And these days a massive rolling upgrade of the web into a fully fledged application platform is building incredible momentum, all under the umbrella of HTML5.
We are still in the early days of this new technology cycle and it’s a time of significant opportunity. A time to think beyond the traditional web site. Tomorrow’s users will expect more.
In my talk I focussed on the risky reliance on the new platforms which are currently ruling this world and explore how HTML 5 is emerging as the de-facto lingua franca of the new era of connected devices and the Internet of Things.
My talk contained swear words and a quote by Bob Dylan. Enjoy!
Mozilla for Entrepreneurs
For quite some time now I find myself talking to entrepreneurs all over the world about the lessons we learned here at Mozilla, turning the unlikely contestant Firefox against all odds into a hugely successful product used and loved by millions of people.
I believe that our story holds a couple of key concepts which are highly applicable for startups of all colors. In the past I have used a modified version of John Lilly’s excellent “7 Lessons from Mozilla” deck. Over time I added a couple of lessons of my own - partly based on my work and understanding of Mozilla as well as personal experiences in the world of startups, venture capital and mentoring a ton of startups through programs such as TechStars, Seedcamp or The Unreasonable Institute.
The following deck is a first pass at uniting all those experiences and influences into a coherent deck. What do you think? What’s missing? What doesn’t make sense? What’s good and terrible?
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