by Simone Gross | Oct 1, 2019 | Founder's Views, News & Infos, Events
At this year’s Bits & Pretzel conference everything was centred on impact. And who better to talk about impact than 44th US President Barack Obama? You could cut the tension with a knife in hall C1 before the opening of the 5th founder festival Bits & Pretzels....read more by Philipp Benkler | Oct 8, 2018 | QA, Founder's Views, Testing Reality, Trends in Software Testing, Usability & User Experience, Test Automation, Usability
As a founder of a Munich-based startup, the famous Bits & Pretzels convention is certainly on your agenda. Recently, I had the chance to be a part of it and deliver a pitch on stage. If you are interested in my pitch you can watch it here: Besides the pitch, it...read more by Philipp Benkler | Jan 23, 2018 | Founder's Views
In my last blog post, I wrote about our experiences when starting Testbirds and what I’ve learned from evaluating business ideas. You obviously will need a really good idea if you want to found a company. But another important aspect you have to consider is asking...read more by Philipp Benkler | Dec 6, 2017 | QA, Founder's Views, Usability & User Experience
When you want to start a business, at the very beginning there is only an idea. Back in 2011, we had a completely different idea before we started thinking about Crowdtesting and Testbirds – we looked into mobile payment. We evaluated the idea for quite a long time:...read more by Philipp Benkler | Nov 22, 2017 | Founder's Views, Orga 4.0, Recruitment
It’s all about trust In many companies, the following mind-set is still quite common: Flexible working (e.g. home office) means having no control over your employees and questions about whether they are really working. In my opinion, employers who have this...read more by Philipp Benkler | Nov 7, 2017 | Code of Conduct, Founder's Views, Testing Reality
As you maybe have read in my previous post, I explained why digitalisation has a big impact on the working world. Digitalisation has resulted in new models of employment like crowdsourcing: This means outsourcing of projects to the worldwide community. The new tasks...read more 
