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 inventions, products and companies come from...
read moreFeest.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 Feest.je
read morePlanHQ.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 A business-plan is a fixed plan that has to apply to a fluid, constantly changing, situation and it is outdated the...
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We are throwing a party on the 31st of August and this is our top ten list of reasons why: 1. we will/might introduce a new version of Fleck around that time 2. we love our new office view and like to share that 3. The Next Web was a successful international conference 4. Wakoopa is doing good 5. Twones is coming up with some good stuff 6. Because Robert is finally leaving us alone (He’s going to Japan) 7. We love to share good times and there is always time for a nice party 8. Because we registered a great domain name for it :) 9....
read moreSpoken Column Text
This is the spoken column that I presented in Hilversum yesterday (August 21, 2007) during a cross media event by Immovator. It is in dutch only unfortunately and it was a ‘Spoken Column’ so imagine me reading it to you and please ignore any typos: Volgens de leerplichtwet (artikel 3, paragraaf 1b) zijn jongeren verplicht om naar school te gaan tot het einde van het schooljaar waarin ze de leeftijd van zestien jaar hebben bereikt. Toen ik net 15 was verliet ik mijn school om naar het circus te gaan. Ik was dyslectisch en al...
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