Viva la Revolucion!

Posted by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Aug 9, 2008 in Business Theory, Design, Developing, Fun, Gadget, Innovation, Inspiration, OpenIdea, Personal, Programming | 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 an iPhone but I want to talk about one reason in particular in this post. By buying, using and developing for the iPhone right now you can participate in the start of a new era in computing. Yep, I’m serious. The other reasons for wanting an iPhone...

V3.com VS TwitterCounter.com

Posted by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Aug 6, 2008 in Business, Business Theory, Fun, Innovation, Inspiration, Money, OpenIdea, Personal, Programming, Twitter | 5 comments

In 1997 I started working on an idea I had for a redirect service based on domains from Tonga. I registered come.to, surf.to and welcome.to and together with two friends (Hans-Poul and Eric) we started a company called V3.com. We ended up selling our company in 1999 to Fortunecity. That is a short version of that story as I have talked about it a lot before. What I wanted to talk about is how similar V3.com was to TwitterCounter.com. Don’t get me wrong: they served completely different purposes and technically they were very different...

My presentation at Sprout ChallengerDay 2007

Posted by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Aug 4, 2008 in Business, Business Theory, Fun, Innovation, Inspiration, Personal, Speaking | 6 comments

Last year I did a presentation during Sprout ChallengerDay on November 1, 2007. I talked about innovation, big companies and told an anecdote about how hard it is for big companies to innovate. More than 500 people were there and it was the first edition of the ‘Sprout ChallengerDay’ event. I just received the video and uploaded it so you can watch it too. It is a Dutch presentation but the main story is one I blogged about before in a post titled “Big Companies VS Small Companies on Innovation” so read that if you...

Famous Failures

Posted by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Jun 22, 2008 in Fun, Inspiration, Personal | 4 comments

Shower Interview

Posted by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Jun 2, 2008 in Family, Fun, Innovation, Inspiration, Personal, Press, Speaking | 5 comments

I did an interview for a Dutch student association while taking a shower. Yeah, that is not a typo. Check out the result (Interview in Dutch, sorry) here: This frame shows Tessa leading the interviewer to our bathroom…

Fun in Greece at Blogger Camp 2008

Posted by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on May 31, 2008 in Drinks, Fun, Inspiration, Party, Personal, Speaking, Travel, Vacation | 5 comments

Patrick and me having fun near the pool at Greek Blogger Camp 2008: I just did a presentation here which several people filmed and will upload to Youtube later. Other speakers were Matt Mullenweg and Timothy Ferris. As you can see we are having a very good...