Recommended Reading: April 12, 2015

Wirtschaftswoche explains why incubators run by large companies often fail and in contrast to Y Combinator etc. are not at all interested in the success of the supported companies.

http://www.wiwo.de/erfolg/gruender/inkubatoren-als-pr-show-warum-konzerne-als-gruendungshelfer-oft-scheitern/11532078-all.html

Are meetings really that bad?

In the ToolBlog, Stephan List writes about good and bad meetings:

It's not meetings per se that cause all the trouble; bad meetings. Just like bad PowerPoint presentations spread boredom, not PowerPoint presentations themselves.

Required reading for all those who think meetings are bad a priori.

http://www.toolblog.de/2015/04/sind-besprechungen-wirklich-so-schlimm/

Modern Switzerland

Ronnie Grob thinks about what progressive forces want to change about Switzerland's successful model:

Switzerland regularly occupies top places in international country rankings of all kinds, including in 2014: number 1 in innovative capacity, number 2 in competitiveness, number 2 in prosperity, number 3 in the human development index. And now it should be progressive to endanger this special state system, for which non-politicians all over the world admire and envy us?

http://blog.ronniegrob.com/2015/04/12/moderne-schweiz/

The idea of ​​sharing - big business

The Süddeutsche Zeitung deals with the commercialization of the sharing economy.

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/share-economy-soweit-die-utopie-1.2421540