We asked our associated partner Patrick von Schenck about his lessons learnt from the past weeks and months. Patrick, educated and raised in the most entrepreneurial environments in the Nordics, is today at JP Cornerstone and responsible for helping Entrepreneurs putting some in place the top talent at the companies of tomorrow. Patrick, a Brit in his soul despite his surname, naturally took on a bit of humorous angle to our question and gave us five essential tips on how to excel in video conferencing.

In maybe one of the more lonely periods in history, finding and maintaining love is of course more important than ever and Philip Jonzon Jarl, CEO of the value based dating app Relate has seen an increased interest in both the app and the now digital events. He has also been kind enough to share his best practise with us, highlighting the importance of regular check-ins but also check-outs, Slack channel for MiTs (most important things) and the app Be Focused.

We continue to chat with great entrepreneurs about what we can learn from the Covid-pandemic in terms of digital practises, both personally and professionally. This time Rupert Dean is on the other side of Zoom. When Rupert started X+why, the praised London based chain of hubs for co-working focusing on sustainability and social entrepreneurship, it was out of a macro analysis: big head quarters and non flexible 10 year leases is not the future. Still very much believing the macro analysis holds, Rupert laughs about the consequence of the quarantine: “Short term we have become a victim of our promise of flexibility”.