Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Feest.je – Looking back…

That was a great party! Thanks everybody for showing up. Looking forward to your comments, photos and complaints here. I spent too much time talking to people and have only three photos on my flickr account. I hope there are other people who took more...

The Future of iPhoto?

This is a short intro of a userinterface that works well for zapping through fotos, products and so on. Jens Schwoon developed the software and recorded this demo for me to demonstrate the technology. Some informations from Jens: this techdemo is 4 years old and is somehow copied in Microsoft Surface a bit. It is only a techdemo, but there are all things written down how to put a real product out of it. It can be "mashed up" as you like to make a PhotoUploader, a PhotoSharing, a...

SideNight: Mauro Mariani from Mangrove

Today I will spend the whole day preparing dinner for tonight's SideNight event. We have Mauro Mariani from Mangrove Capital Partners as a special guest and invited a few investors and entrepreneurs to join us for dinner. The purpose of this dinner is dinner by the way, no presentations or formal agenda just good food and good company. These are all the people we invited: Paul Schroder (Capitals C Ventures), Ron Belt (Lowland Capital), Frans Biegstraaten (True Solar Autonomy), Vincent Everts...

TV Interview with Dianne and Wendy

The day that I left for France the interview I did with Dianne and Wendy was broadcasted. I found the link today and watched it with Tessa. Its a funny show and both Faye and Loïs can be seen. We are doing the interview in Loïs' room and they are both playing there. Go and check it out if you haven't already: (Sorry, Dutch...

Deserted Island Strategy

The Deserted Island post was first published on April 23, 2006 at the Fleck.com Blog. Since then I have talked about it often. Today I found out that I never published it here on my personal blog. So here it is. It is a common mistake for start-ups (and people in general) to presume that if they would have more [anything] their product would be much better. More money, more people, more clients, more anything. People complain 'If only I had the resources' or 'If only my boss would support...

Never You Never Know It

On my way to office today I passed a beauty salon in the center of Amsterdam with a excruciatingly ugly painting in the window. I wondered how it got there. What probably happened is that the store owner thought: I can't paint but there is nothing stopping me from giving it a try. Lets see what I can produce. Maybe it will be a masterpiece! You never know! The truth is you know exactly. It won't be a masterpiece. Not unless you let go of that 'You never know' attitude. Great...

Feest.je: not Friday BUT Thursday!

We have decided to move Feest.je from Friday to Thursday because of the Marketingfacts BBQ in Rotterdam on Friday. More information on...

PlanHQ.com – A Major Breakthrough

"Battle is a highly fluid situation. You plan on your contingencies, and I have. You keep your initiatives, and I will." Vic Deakins The reason why I picked this quote is because I applies so well to being in a start-up. It IS a highly fluid situation where nothing goes as planned and all you can do is expect contingencies and keep the initiative. That is also the reason why most business-plans are completely useless. A business-plan is a fixed plan that has to apply to a fluid,...