Business Biome

Hosted by Nicolas Dürr

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Welcome to "Business Biome," the podcast that explores the interconnected world of business ecosystems, co-innovation, and new forms of collaboration to jointly solve market and customer problems too complex to solve alone! Nicolas and his guests dive deep into these fascinating concepts where corporates, startups, entrepreneurs, and even individuals interact, collaborate, and thrive together. We will uncover the secrets behind successful partnerships, explore the evolving dynamics of co-innovation, and discover how businesses can harness the power of collective intelligence. In every episode you will learn new aspects, hear about success stories but also about challenges from experienced ecosystem builders!

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October 22, 2026Episode 3554 min

#35 MCP Under the Microscope - with Ivana Todorovic from AuthoredUp

How a LinkedIn Tool Is Shaking SaaS Companies Awake Ivana Todorovic is co-founder of AuthoredUp, the tool for LinkedIn content creation. She has a background in economic theory/econometrics, previously worked in compliance at a Swiss company, and is known as the non-technical co-founder of the planning tool. In this episode, we talk about introducing the Model Context Protocol (MCP) into their SaaS product. Ivana shares her founder journey, clearly explains the difference between classic APIs and MCP, and speaks candidly about the development process and all the technical challenges around authentication and security. She shares impressive early adoption numbers and concrete customer feedback, points out MCP's current limitations, and closes with a clear call to action. Other questions we address: what automatically makes a company an MCP use case why many so-called "MCP" implementations are just repackaged REST APIs without real OAuth authentication who should own MCP within a company what early signals point to MCP demand why AuthoredUp decided to build it despite relatively few direct customer requests where the biggest technical hurdle lies when building an MCP server --- 👋🏼 Follow Ivana on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivanatodorovic/ 🔗 Look up AuthoredUp: https://authoredup.com/ --- 🚨 Follow the podcast so you don't miss another episode ⭐️ I am happy about your 5-star rating

January 16, 202553 min

#26 Unternehmensdaten, GenAI und Spickzettel - wie hängt das zusammen? - mit Johannes Hötter von Kern

Wie können die großen Modelle mit Unternehmensdaten angereichert werden? Welche Ansätze und Herausforderungen gibt es dabei? Wie lässt sich eine hohe Qualität der Antworten sicherstellen? Diese und noch weitere spannende Themen besprechen wir in der neuesten Episode.

November 28, 202548 min

#33 The Art of Selling: Moving Beyond Product Development - with Zoltan Vardy

In our new podcast episode, I talk to Zoltan Vardy. Zoltan is a B2B sales strategist for tech founders and the author of the book “The Launch Code”. He brings 30 years of experience in B2B sales, has led multiple teams, and built his own startup.

November 30, 202344 min

#12 Vom Code zum Ökosystem: APIs als treibende Kraft der Innovation - mit Marvin Vortkamp von wallis

Was haben digitale Ökosysteme mit dem Hamburger Fischmarkt gemeinsam? In dieser Folge spreche ich mit Marvin Vortkamp genau darüber und über das große Potential hinter APIs, digitale Ökosysteme zu ermöglichen!

June 23, 202339 min

#2 Integrations ≠ Partnerships - with Justin Zimmermann

Ecosystem-led marketing is a must to foster growth and adaption

August 23, 202347 min

#8 Elevating Partners: The compelling force behind today's (Product) Strategies - with Paulo Santos from Usercentrics

In this episode Paulo and myself talk about how Usercentrics enables their partners to jointly create new business models to drive additional value to their clients!

July 14, 202341 min

#5 Eat your own Platform - mit Dr. Jens Weghake von d.velop

In dieser Folge geht es um die Lerneffekte, wenn man selbst als Partner Leistungen auf der eigenen Plattform anbietet und dieselben Partnerprozesse durchlaufen muss, wie ein externer.

August 8, 202346 min

#7 SaaS-Champions: Partnerschaften rocken den Erfolg - mit Martin Scholz von PartnerXperience

Erfolgreiche SaaS-Unternehmen fokussieren sich stark auf Partnerschaften! 50-70% der SaaS-Unternehmen erwirtschaften bereits heute einen entscheidenden Teil ihres Umsatzes durch Partnerschaften!

November 21, 202348 min

#11 Corporate Startups als Innovationstreiber - mit Markus Anding von Excubate

In dieser Episode sprechen Markus und ich über die Vorteile von Corporate Startups, über kulturelle Herausforderungen, aber auch um konkrete Lösungen, wie man es als Konzern richtig angeht!

December 28, 202343 min

#13 Plattformökonomie und ihre Endgegner - mit Marvin Urban von Dörken Digital Ventures

Die Plattformökonomie hat es in Deutschland nicht leicht! Die Statistiken belegen immer wieder, dass wir den Märkten in den USA und in Asien nur noch hinterherrennen. Über die Gründe habe ich mit Marvin Urban von Dörken Digital Ventures gesprochen!