A A
RSS

Archive | Design

Gurus #11: Twitter Special with Francisco van Jole

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

1 Comment

Yesterday I was interviewed by Francisco van Jole in my own show. We talked about Twitter. Enjoy:

MTV Shorts & Boris

Thursday, November 27, 2008

10 Comments

MTV is making short movies again and has launched a website to promote them. They will also do a large poster campaign in Amsterdam and guess who they asked as a model for the poster. Right. Check out the website: MTV Shorts Photo: Daniel J. Ashes.

Blast from the past

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

3 Comments

In 2003 I sold my Wi-Fi Hotspot company to Dutch telephone operator KPN. One of the first things we did (we = me and my partners Koen & Caspar) after we signed the contract was to install HotSpots in the lobby of the main KPN building. The boxes we hid the Wi-Fi equipment in [...]

Viva la Revolucion!

Saturday, August 9, 2008

5 Comments

We bought 15 iPhones in San Francisco last year for all our friends. Last Friday Patrick and I went to the T-Mobile store and bought iPhones. They didn’t have them in stock so we will have to wait for a few weeks before we actually get them. There are several reason why you could get [...]

New blog theme

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

7 Comments

As you can see if you are visiting this blog in a regular browser I have updated the design. The last time I spent some time on the design was more than a year ago and recently I received a few friendly suggestions that maybe it was time for a change. The design you see here [...]

Kings of Code!

Monday, May 19, 2008

0 Comments

Developers are cool. They know stuff that I don’t. I look up to developers. I would love to be a great developer! I can build stuff in PHP but don’t actually ‘understand’ it like real developers do. In other words, I’m not a King of Code. But that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy the Kings of [...]

Slurpr demo for Werner Vogels

Saturday, May 17, 2008

6 Comments

Yesterday evening I had some people over for dinner including Werner Vogels. He is the CTO of Amazon.com. He noticed my Slurpr and wanted to know what it does and how it worked. I showed the device and told him all about it. Then he persuaded me to pitch the device on video for him. [...]

OpenIdea: Taxati.com

Monday, April 21, 2008

19 Comments

Someone once told me that there are two happy moment in the life of a boat owner: the day he buys his boat and the day he sells it. The rest is spent fixing, moving, cleaning and worrying about the boat. I noticed that most real-estate websites concentrate on these two moments (buy & sell) when [...]

Latest Flickr photos
Visitors from Twitter

What I'm Doing...

About Boris

The Internet Entrepreneur
You are visiting the blog of Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten. I am a Serial Internet Entrepreneur and I write about my projects, my theories about innovation and entrepreneurship and sometimes about my life in general.

I frequently speak at conferences and events about innovation and entrepreneurship.

You can hire me as a speaker or read more about me on the About page or subscribe to my frequent updates on Twitter.

You can also contact me if you have any questions.

Categories