Inline Manual

Inline Manual provides a service to guide, support and engage prospects and customers right within an application. Easily create product walkthroughs, on-boarding guides, new features announcements, tooltips and manageable product documentation.

Used and loved by small and big companies to get customers up to speed in no time, available for any web based product. All this without any coding.

Some of the companies using Inline Manual: Pearson, pipedrive, eToro, Miovision, University of Michigan, iForex and many others from all around the world.

Founder

Eventhunt.io

Eventhunt is a Product Hunt like platform for tech/startup events in your city. It is for people who want to socialize, learn new things, get new opportunities (investors, free business advise) in the area they are in and also to help to get to know people when they move to a new location or want to get more involved while traveling.

Co-founder

Frontendunited

Organiser - travelling conference for designers, developers & drupalistas from all kinds of backgrounds - focused workshops, talks & sessions on design, frontend engineering & Drupal. (2010 Prague, 2011 Berlin, 2012 Amsterdam, 2013 UK)

Organiser

Atomic Ant Limited

Drupal developer, designer, themer, project manager

Owner

UBS Wealth Management

While being a senior Drupal developer, I started an initiative to bring into our workflow user centric design.

Senior developer, pushing User Centric Design

Drupal development, improving user experience/usability of an internal support portal. Improving processes when it comes to deployment and analysis.

Senior web developer

Drupal.org

Developer

Turner - Capgemini

Front-end and Drupal development for HLNTV.com

HLN TV

BrightTALK

Drupal developer

freelancer

Drupal developer, web designer

I'm the Founder of Inline Manual. I've worked directly with hundreds of clients serving millions of users each year. My experience working in front-end development and design lead me to user experience. Soon I realized what was missing: a way to allow the marketing and content teams to create in-app guidance on the fly. With Inline Manual, we help our clients improve onboarding and feature adoption, in a flexible and customizable way. Message me about how I can implement a better user-onboarding for your end-users with Inline Manual.

Marek Sotak

Venture Athlete & International Expansion Expert | Thriving as Generalist in a Specialized Economy

I’m Dominik, founder, athlete, & creator. A proud generalist. This is my story: 

For the last 7 years, I helped bootstrap one startup from 0 to 1M in revenue and built the international business from scratch for one of Europe’s fastest growing EdTech companies (50 -> 240 employees in my three years there).

All while competing at the highest level of the beautiful sport of Lacrosse, including an appearance for the German National Team at the 2022 World Games (the Olympics’ little brother).

While my professional achievements may seem more impressive on paper, representing Germany on an international stage is the feat that I’m most proud of.

I wasn’t very athletic up until my mid-twenties. Very little talent, but a lot of injuries to make up for it.

Until one day, I started working with a personal trainer. He helped me break down the fundamentals I needed to fix.

I worked hard, and I worked consistently. Showed up to every practice, every gym session. Did my recovery & mobility work daily.

4 years later, I made the national team roster.

The potential was in me. But it needed help unlocking.

Throughout my entire career, I’ve also helped humans unlock their potential, just in different ways:

- By teaching people in rural Rwanda and Brazilian homeless shelter how to make glasses for less than $1, and how to build a business around it
- By bringing unemployed nurses from Italy to Germany and teaching them German, opening a completely different career path for them
- By expanding the leading operating system for schools throughout Europe, so that education becomes more digital and thus accessible
- By writing about my experiences online and sharing them with the world

In late 2023, I made the decision to quit my cozy, well-paid, full-time job that fit my profile perfectly.

I'm on a mission to build my own portfolio career - and help others to unlock theirs. Join me on my journey towards building a portfolio of cashflow-positive, impact-driven businesses.

These businesses have one goal: help others unlock their potential. Just like my personal trainer did for me.

I wish that some of the best portfolio company owners turned creators had documented their journey from day 1, and not retrospectively.

So that’s what I’m doing.

I write for generalists like myself, who want to make a living in a specialized economy without specializing themselves. 

You can do more than one thing in your life. 
Let’s design that life together. 

Sign up for my newsletter here: www.dominiknitsch.com/newsletter

Dominik Nitsch

"Life is half over by 23" sounds like an insane take, but I think it has some substance to it. Here's why: 

When you're 5, each year represents 20% of your life. 
When you're 10, 10%. 
Etc.

With each passing year, the relative increase in experience slows down. I'm 32 now, so the current year represents ~3% of my entire life so far. And it's just gonna become less. 

So according to Sam, my life is already 75% over. Unacceptable. 

Here's what you can do about it: 

1/ Implement landmark events 
Some days, even some weeks, I ask myself: "wtf did I do today?" and can't really think of anything. It was just a normal workday with no specific things worth remembering. 

Chain too many of those days, and time passes by incredibly fast. 
But if you do something out of routine (like attending a sports event, traveling to a new place, meeting an interesting person, trying a new skill) – you'll remember that. And the more landmark events you have in a year, the longer the year will feel in retrospect. 

2/ Diversify, diversify, diversify 
If you just do one thing, it's much easier to get stuck in a rut. If you do several things really well, progress accumulates not just in your main job, but also in your side hustles. 

Subjectively, this makes life feel longer. You look back on a year and think: "damn, I did all this in three different disciplines? that's cool." 

3/ Engineer anti-routines into your life
I'm all for having a routine; the best work gets done in a familiar setting. 

But as with everything in life: "everything in moderation, including moderation". If you always stick to your routine, life passes by fast. So build anti-routines into it. These could be: 
→ setting an objective to travel to 2 new countries every year
→ consciously breaking your normal daily routine 1-2 days per week
→ meeting one new person every week 

Novelty makes life longer. 

That being said, Sam has a point. Life's short. Don't waste it doing things that mean nothing to you.

Founder @ Generalyst | building talent infrastructure for early-stage startups | 1,245 generalists read my newsletter to future-proof their career.

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Norway is absolutely crushing it in the Winter Olympics. With a population of 5.5m. HOW? The answer: late specialization. 

“Common wisdom” in athletic development says: specialize early, have your kid train one sport, so they gain an edge. 

This works in what David Epstein calls “kind environments” like Golf, where more practice reps over time are equal to increased success. 

But in “wicked environments” that are largely outside your control (most sports, including winter sports, where weather is always a factor), athletes to specialize later tend to be more successful. 

Seems like the Norwegian Olympic Committee realized this, too. Late specialization is a byproduct of their system: 
→ no formal competition structures before age 12
→ encouraging multi-sport participation 
→ avoiding rankings

They don’t optimize for winning at 12, but for competing at 28. 

We can apply their logic to careers: 

In the past, many knowledge jobs were kind environments. Somewhat predictable, slowly changing. If you had done the same thing for your entire life, you were gonna be good at it. 

Today, AI is taking over more and more knowledge work. Jobs are changing faster than ever. We constantly have to reinvent ourselves. 

Knowledge work became the ultimate wicked environment. 

And if we can learn one thing from the Norwegians, is that maybe, we should specialize later. Contrary to an athlete, our career doesn’t end at 34. It ends at 70. This gives us a lot more time to sample and delay specialization. 

Because whatever we specialize in today might not be relevant tomorrow. 

I believe the future belongs to generalists. The ones who think critically, solve problems, learn new skills instantly, and communicate clearly. Across a variety of domains. And eventually, go deeper in a few domains. 

Like Jens Lurås Oftebro (below), who won 2 gold medals for Norway in Nordic Combined.
Because one specialization just ain’t enough.

Specialization is the most overrated career advice of the last decade.

“Pick a niche.”
“Go deep.”
“Become the expert in one thing.”

What sounds great in theory, doesn’t work in practice anymore. 

It locks 20-somethings in boxes they shouldn’t lock themselves into yet. Most people in their 30s don’t know what they want. How do you expect high school and university grads to know that? 

The best way to find out what you want is to sample different things. 

This allows you to:
→ build a broad foundation
→ find out what you’re actually world-class at
→ get pattern recognition 

Knowing what you’re uniquely good at via trial and error is the ultimate way of “sharpening the axe”. 

Yeah, you might be falling behind compared to someone embarking on a medical or law career. 

But down the line, you’ll have a life that works exactly for you. 

Maybe it’s one job.
Maybe it’s a portfolio of jobs, turning into a Portfolio Career.

The possibilities are endless, but just picking one thing at 18 and sticking with it for the rest of your life sounds like a pretty bad strategy if you ask me. 

PS: I wrote a few articles about building a Portfolio Career. If that sounds interesting to you, you can download my portfolio career playbook here: https://lnkd.in/dGZaPsrv

Founder's Associates exist on a spectrum – from being purely operational to being a proper sparring partner. The breakdown: 

Want your own Founder's Associate? That's our bread and butter at Generalyst. We work with A+ generalist talents of all the three levels listed here. Faster than your own recruitment process, cheaper than your headhunter. 

PS: Want me to do one for Chief of Staff, too? Comment below.

Simon Veithen and I sat down on Friday to discuss: 

→ what the hell a generalist is, and why it's the best way to prepare for the future
→ how you can acquire meta skills 
→ why job safety is an illusion
→ how to achieve non-linear results 

... and much more. 

Listen to the full 1h episode here: https://lnkd.in/dNdxH_9s

Just finished writing ~2,000 words detailing how I'd 10X my chances of getting a job interview as a generalist in 2026. 

Will be sending the article in my newsletter tomorrow at 12:05pm sharp. 
Click the link above to get instant access when it comes out. 

Stop applying into the abyss.
Start getting interviews. 

https://lnkd.in/eNkx-7yn

Founder @ Generalyst | building talent infrastructure for early-stage startups | 1,163 generalists read my newsletter to future-proof their career

To the candidate who wrote this: I feel flattered. 
This is the question we ask: 

"Are there any impressive achievements you would like us to know about that aren't on your CV or that you'd want to highlight?"

I believe the best candidates often hide beyond the CV. Winding, non-linear paths, difficult childhoods, exceptional achievements in their hobbies. 

And it's our job at Generalyst to find them. 

So if that's you (or if you just wanna fill out a questionnaire that makes you wanna say "OMG" in a positive manner), consider applying on your website. 🤝

How to identify high-performing organizations: 

"The single best indication of a high-performing culture is the prevalence of former entrepreneurs. It usually portends a high-agency organization equipped with people mentally and emotionally prepared for a startup journey. Figure out what percentage of a company’s employee base previously launched businesses of their own, and try to understand why they’ve decided to forgo their independence to contribute to a new mission." – Mario Gabriele

It takes a lot as a founder to subordinate yourself again (been there, done that). When an organization manages to attract these kind of people, there's usually something special going on. 

If you're a former founder and wanna join such an organization – there's a few in the Generalyst client portfolio :)

A quote I can’t stop thinking about: 

“There are really two types of companies that are truly VC-backable – super deep tech companies with deep strategic moats, and companies that are riding a tectonic shift (eg. delivery companies during COVID, Facebook / Google when the internet made everything accessible, Instagram when mobile became a thing etc)"

Not sure where I read it, but it summarizes the current reality pretty well. 

In a world where you can literally just do things, building defensible startups becomes harder and harder. 

So you can either: 
→ build one of those 2 types of defensible companies, or
→ build something that doesn’t need defensibility 

A small company serving a niche can be highly profitable without needing massive defensibility.

The recipe: 
Relentless execution + brand + niche market. 

That way, you can establish yourself as the go-to player without having to build crazy moats. Your name, your brand, your process becomes the mini-moat. 

A palace needs a wall, because what’s inside is incredibly valuable. 
A garden needs a fence, because that minimum of deterrent is sufficient for what’s inside. 

Build companies that need fences, not walls.

Build things you wish existed but somehow don’t (in your geography). This my villain origin story for Generalyst: 

When I graduated from university, I didn’t want to specialize. Had no idea that startups were a thing. Didn’t know how to navigate the job market. 

Later, after leaving my first startup, and failing to found the second one, I needed a job. 

It was tough. Nobody knew what to do with my generalist skillset. 

Eventually, I found one. International Expansion. Perfect fit for my skillset. 

But I didn’t find it on the open market by hitting “apply”. I found it because of deep network connections. 

In that role, I had a to hire a lot. The process was tedious. 
→ re-write job postings created by HR
→ screen 100s of candidates with low quality 
→ interview someone just to learn that we can’t match their salary
→ try to actively source candidates (without ever having learned how to)

During that hiring process (lookin for a junior Chief of Staff), I talked to Matthew Sarre from Jumpstart. His business solved all my hiring problems – except for one: they didn’t have any candidates in Germany. 

And I thought: damn, this is exactly the product I need. 
And the one I would’ve needed after graduation and in my last job hunt. 

This has to exist. In Germany. 

So now, I’m building it. With my own distinct taste. 

Because I believe something like Generalyst  needs to exist in Germany.

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