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...

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...

SideNight: 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...

SideNight: 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...