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 the speakers are on the official website but here...
read moreSponsoring 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 Google.nl it is the number one result! Check...
read moreSideNight: Picnic Speaker Dinner
Last night (Saturday) Patrick invited a bunch of people to my house for dinner. At a party on Thursday he bumped into some speakers who were in town for PICNIC and invited them all (“Including all your friends and partners”) to MY house for dinner on Saturday. I found out about this on Friday. We also had 2 children staying over. But I’m not complaining at all! Dinner was great fun and there were lots of great people. Dick Hardt obviously listened to Patrick and invited 2 friends of which one decided to invite 2 other friends...
read moreBowlr.nl – January 31, 2008
We are hosting a special event here in Amsterdam for the Interactive industry. Go and check out Bowlr.nl and sign up for a team or even better; sponsor a lane! This is going to be great fun so make sure you are a part of it… Here is the Press Release (In Dutch): PERSBERICHT Amsterdam, 11 september 2007 Internethype mondt uit in Bowling Bubble… Bowlr het mashup bowling event voor de interactive industry Op donderdag 31 januari zal in Bowlingcentrum Knijn in Amsterdam de eerste editie van Bowlr (http://bowlr.nl) losbarsten, waar...
read moreFeest.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...
read moreSideNight: 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 (Interimic), Martijn Hamann (Van den Ende...
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