Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Bowlr, the US version!

Some of you know that we are planning a Bowlr.NL event here in Amsterdam on January 31, 2008 which, with 42 participating teams, is pretty much sold out. But tonight we also announce our San Francisco Bowlr.US event which will take place on February 7, 2008. This is our official (well...) Press Release: PRESSRELEASE - Amsterdam, November 20, 2007 Bowlr.US: THE bowling event for the Internet Industry On februari 7, 2008 a crowd of internet entrepreneurs will show up at the Seabowlr in...

Roadtrip: Web2.0 Expo Berlin 2007

Tonight at 11:30 we are leaving Amsterdam to drive to Berlin, in one night. Tomorrow and wednesday we are visiting Web2.0 Expo Berlin and on Thursday morning we drive back. This is going to be an exhausting trip but I'm sure we will have a great time. I will keep Twittering and blogging and Flickring as usual and maybe even a bit more than...

The Ultimate Diet Formula

I love diets. They are the ultimate self fulfilling prophecy. Once you start following a diet to lose weight, you actually start losing weight! How incredible? Not really! It is just the Hawthorne Effect doing its magic: An attempt was made to measure the difference between two methods of management during the 1930s at the Hawthorne plant. The attempt failed because the workers impoved their efforts immensely for both methods. This was because they knew they were being watched...

ChallengerDay

Today Robert Gaal (Wakoopa.com) and me were speakers at Sprout ChallengerDay in Hilversum. The whole office decided to be there to see us do our thing and even a few friends decided to join us. It turned out to be a very inspiring event and we met lots of new and interesting people. [The photo here shows the audience during a small break session about financing your start-up.] Yesterday we hosted the speaker dinner at my house. 22 people showed up and we had a lot of nice food and wine and...

Get ready for Bowlr…

Patrick posted another Bowlr movie today. Even funnier than the last one. YouTube - Get ready for...

Bowlr Training

On January 31, 2008 we are hosting the Dutch Bowlr event here in Amsterdam. We don't have much experience with bowling so we decided to practice a little bit today. Bowling is actually pretty much fun and we are even more excited than before about the Bowlr event! More info here: http://bowlr.nl More photos...

Free Ticket & Huge Savings: Sprout ChallengerDay

On Thursday, November 1, 2007 I will be a speaker on Sprout's ChallengerDay. I am looking forward to this day a lot and not just because I am speaking but because the other speakers are all very inspiring people. I intend to be there the whole day just listening to what these challengers have to say. I also offered to host the Speakers Dinner the night before at my house which will be extra cool because I will get to meet all the speakers personally the evening before. You can see who all...

Sponsoring 2008 -> Google -> Bowlr = #1

Bowlr, our super funky networking event on January 31, 2008 in Amsterdam is getting a lot of attention lately. A lot of teams (21!) have signed up and we are even planning an international event in February somewhere else in the world. But the site has been getting plenty of traffic too. Since we hardly promoted the event we wondered where all that traffic came from. Turns out that Bowlr is doing extremely well in Google on a lot of search terms. If you search for 'Sponsoring 2008' via...