A Two Way Internet
Patrick did an interview with Los Creador. It is a blog which publishes a new interview with a internet company founder every week. This week Patrick talks about Fleck and how it was inspired on a story written by Vannevar Bush way back in 1945 and how he got a vision to create a two-way internet. It is an in depth interview and focuses on vision a lot. Go and check it out and don’t forget to digg it...
read moreEurope’s Top Young Entrepreneurs 2007
BusinessWeek went on a quest to find Europe’s hottest young entrepreneurs, all under the age of 25. Today they announced their top 5, which includes Statcounter, Wakoopa and Kwiqq. As you can imagine the Wakoopa guys are thrilled to be among the 25 chosen for the article and they plan to celebrate this tomorrow during the Amsterdam OpenCoffee by giving away free champagne and iPhones to the first 10 people there. Or maybe I’m just making that up. Read the Businessweek article and don’t forget to digg...
read moreSafari + Website = 50% of 15% of Revenue
A few days ago I tried to buy a ticket for the ‘Trendwatcher van het jaar’ but the form didn’t seem to work. It turned out that the designer used non standard CSS which worked fine in Explorer and Firefox but broke some parts of the navigation in Safari. I contacted the organization and told them they were missing revenue because a certain percentage of their visitors couldn’t use their website. They answered that they were aware of the problem but that most visitors used Explorer so they weren’t too worried...
read moreTrendwatcher of the Year Awards
On July 26th eYe and Ruigrok Netpanel organize the ‘Trendwatcher of the Year‘ awards. Adjiedj Bakas, Carl Rohde, Reinier Evers, Frank Janssen and Hilde Roothart are all nominated. I am having dinner with Adjiedj Bakas August 28. We worked together as jury members for an elevator pitch show on AT5. If you are planning to go to the awards let me know so we can meet each other there. There is also a small party and Fashion Show by Joline Jolink after the award ceremony so don’t miss...
read moreWhy We Bought Apple Options?
Yahoo! FinanceQuote for AAPL/ A few weeks ago Patrick and I were talking about the iPhone. I explained that I thought there were two possible scenarios for the iPhone: 1: it would be a disappointment and the stock would return to its $80 pre iPhone value. 2: it would be everything we hoped for and more… If the iPhone wouldn’t disappoint, I told Patrick, it would mean that Apple would suddenly be 50% more valuable. Before the iPhone they did two things: Build computers and iPods. If the iPhone would be successful they would add a...
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