Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

IPAN Launch Event.
Photo by IPAN.

Yesterday I attended the IPAN Launch Event. It was the second Launch event we hosted. The first one was in 2006 and had a similar set-up: a lot of projects and companies about to launch present their companies at small tables in a big room. People walk around and get personal demos and presentations.

We also had a jury (Johan van Mil, Han Gerrits and Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten) who spoke with all the companies and chose a winner. The winner was YelloYello.nl who received an Apple iPod Shuffle.

This is a photo of the BlogAds.nl table. Polle de Maagt was there talking to people about their product. The table looked really good with all those papers and bright light.

More photos at the IPAN Flickr Account.

Other companies that presented themselves were: Fleck, Swoot, T-signers, Zygomatics, Start 1-2, Tomap, Rasasa, Ted/Snackbar, Sync, Butterfly, Original Signal / Stillpoint, 14dayz, Leadz and a few others I forget…

Also present were a few journalists and publishers so I’m expecting some stories to appear today. And here they are:
IDG Blog: “Internet is (weer) echt hip; de IPAN Launch 2007”
Sprout: “Internetondernemers vol hoop”
Marketingfacts: “IPAN Launch Event: Gouden Gids killer beste concept”
BlueAce: “IPAN Launch Event 2007: projects du jour!”
Cafe del Marketing: “IPAN Launch Event 2007”
Dutch Cowboys: “Terugblik IPAN Launch Event 2007”
Volkskrant Banen: “Internethype zonder gekheid“

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On February 6 you can demo and promote your new product, project or company at the IPAN Launch Event. It is free for start-ups! More information at the IPAN.nl website.

IPAN - De bron voor interactie

Something interesting is happening.

Today Nextstage, NeBIB and Skillcity hosted a ‘Cross network event’ in Utrecht at media Plaza. They figured it would be fun to hear me talk about networking. I hope it WAS fun for the 300 or so people in the audience. I was introduced there too as the King of Networking and the obvious choice as speaker for their event.

Then there was the article in Bizz magazine a few months ago that called me a Super-Networker.
I’m flattered and intrigued by all of this. It feels good to be an expert in something an I like talking about these kind of things and you know I have a strong opinion which I like to share with others.

Now all I have to do is find a way to monetise my new status.

Maybe I should talk to a Monetise Guru…

In Holland we don’t really have Santa. We have ‘Sinterklaas’ who does pretty much the same as Santa.

Gifts, food and familytime!

But tonight is also IPAN night and we decided not to cancel the event even though we don’t expect many visitors. In fact, I’m here now, and I’m the only one….

5 minutes later….

There are three people now!!!

The next day…

In the end, more than 35 people showed up! And then at 9 the actual Sinterklaas showed up with 2 pieten and a small bottle of champagne for everybody.

I have never met such a funny and nasty Sinterklaas before. He told us he wasn’t wearing any underwear, that he was in desperate need of a beer and that he regularly became intimate with his female Pieten.

Then he asked if we could turn up the music so he could dance a little bit. A very succesful and interesting IPAN evening after all…

Next to Fleck.com and my other projects I’m also chairman of the Interactive Professionals Association Netherlands (better know as IPAN). Normally IPAN has a monthly meeting every first tuesday or the month. This month the meeting wwill be held on the second tuesday of the month, september 12th. The reason is that we have a special guest.

His name is David Fleck and he is vice-president of Linden Labs, the company behind Second Life. I suggest you all come and listen to his story.More information on the IPAN website: http://www.ipan.nl/