This blog explains what makes me tick; innovation & entrepreneurship, the social enterprise, my life-mission, projects, passions, who I surround myself with, and why I want to make a difference that matters.
Last Monday I was asked to be on the Dutch national radio channel BNR. I was interviewed by Paul van Liempt, a Dutch moderator who virtually live-interviewed every famous person in the Netherlands. It was a fun experience!
Read the full post >>You are you! It’s who you want to be, should be, and it’s what everyone else want you to be (investors, cofounders, your mother, …). By being you, you create and innovate. Beating the crap out of the existing what so much annoys you. You already know the best start ups are built out [...]
Read the full post >>Two events down the road in demystifying venture capitalism has brought us where we are today. Lots of stuff in the pipeline: going overseas, new website, new partnerships, annual and long-term setups, a closed community for VCs and Founders to also get together online in between events, etc. I just love this video compilation of [...]
Read the full post >>The Conference That’s Demystifying Venture Capitalism The Next Web called us “a very different kind of startup conference” The Kernel said “investors pitching to start-ups? Now there’s an idea we can get behind”. In the article, Milo Yiannopoulos (Editor-in-Chief of The Kernel) also mentions that he is “intrigued about [...]
Read the full post >>Monday night I arranged a very special Meetup with Prof. Peter Troxler of the FabLab in Luzern and 7 other creative minds. We gathered at the big table in my office in Citizen Space in Zurich to discuss one thing: How can we best combine forces to create the #1 innovation hotspot in Zurich ? Peter [...]
Read the full post >>The very first CapitalOnStage conference is going well… very well actually: this event has been SOLD OUT for over 2 weeks! On September 14, 2011, Sander and I are bringing together 220 Startup founders from the European technology industry with 20 big-name VC’s. We keep things very exclusive / invitation-only, and also all Startup founders have [...]
Read the full post >>Geneva – July 21, 2011 It took years to decide, but last night in Geneva 164 CEO’s of the top fortune 500 companies, many country leaders from all continents, all CEO’s of the top 200 largest aid organisations, as well as US president Barack Obama, agreed on a plan to end poverty on a global [...]
Read the full post >>This post gives some insight in what Nomadworking is and how I manage myself as being a “nomadworker”. I’m typing this on my Mac 10km up in the sky somewhere between Zurich and Helsinki (peeking outside almost continuously in the hope I see that flying house they rebuild for real, based on the pixar movie [...]
Read the full post >>“Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.” (Robert McAfee Brown) By now, many corporations are making some kind of effort to transfer themselves into a so called social business; corporations that actually listen to their (new) clients, suppliers, and employees with the objective to make more money [...]
Read the full post >>Are multinational institutions in conservative industries, like banks and insurance firms, doomed to fail to deliver on its function in society as we know it today? More and more employees in big firms can’t fake their learned corporate behavior and language anymore that is originated by internal politics, such as the UBS 43-pages long dresscode [...]
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