Monthly Archives: February 2008

Photo’s from yesterdays Opencoffee

We had a diverse group of people visiting yesterday, it was fun meeting each other for “fika 2.0″ I am amazed by the amount of entrepreneurs, some of the companies that visited us: Intentac Nordnet Trading Science Park Lindbladh Franke … Continue reading

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@timvandendool Our neighbors from Safetool.se RFID tags workers & tools on the construction site. Movie: http://tinyurl.com/2gwf6w

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8 Reasons why Silicon Valley is a success.

1. You are considered a failure when you quit, this creates a mentality of willing to fail & try again. 2. A open view to immigrant with a “gold rush” mentality 3. Heavy funding by the military and NASA 4. … Continue reading

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met the ex CEO of 3com, Gaëtan Cantale Researching the development of the acquisition of last.fm by CBS.

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The rise of Silicon Valley in 100 words

<1940: Gold rush increases population 1940s: Soldiers from WW2 increases population (nice weather, beaches and mountains.) 1950s: High funding in the area, to support research for the Cold war nuclear program 1960s: The Vietnam war, and NASA innovations created a … Continue reading

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Just bought a new macbook pro, with touchpad! Will ship next week friday WP Quicktip: Remove wordpress RSS feed categories by adding ?cat=-1 to feed. Where ’1′ is the category. Less is more! Ryanair.nl is charging 1 found for flights … Continue reading

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Launch of opencoffee.se in Sweden, interview from Ezine

The idea behind “Open Coffee” is that entrepreneurs need a physical space to meet and share their ideas. The meetings exists in various places around the world, such as Barcelona, Amsterdam and London. Now Dutch student Joop Dorresteijn has brought … Continue reading

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Three marketing questions every interested VC will ask you.

Sheridan Tatsuno is a born and raised silicon valley entrepreneur; he just gave a intentac.org presentation about investments and marketing. I want to share three marketing questions that any VC will ask you after your pitch, know the answers: 1. … Continue reading

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Met the Saudi delegation today Saudi’s consider the silent wise, no long eye contact, girls should await them to shake their hands; no kiss. Gave Neo-office and Gimp a chance tonight.

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Bought a fresh salmon in the mall

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Talking Edward Murpheys about copyright laws on the web. Talking about diggnation http://tinyurl.com/39mbzs with their 15 sec.video previews Being interviewed by Ezine magazine today

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Tweets from 2008-02-21

Thursday egosearch: Finally landed on the first page of Google with the search term ‘Joop’… back to work

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Tweets from 2008-02-20

The nice folks at http://www.litium.se are sponsoring the full color opencoffee.se posters! Nice: Chinese symbols for risk translates as danger and opportunity. Nice way of looking at it.

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Tweets from 2008-02-18

Walked out of finance class to meet the library director, Inger Melin. Sitting in the lobby, looking at a old 3com 905 eth-card on display. @ presentation of the head of Telenor’s strategy, Frank Alter. He is explaining why the … Continue reading

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Tweets from 2008-02-17

Drinking cognac with the venture club Calculating liquidation values for yahoo: Expected liquidation value = (apps, cash and goodw.) (+1 inflation rate)^short life of web assets.

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amd there is the CEO of Arbesko, bit late but that’s fashion :-) Peter Geiser runs a €30 million production company, makes entering brazil, canada, USA sound easy. Nice oneliners @ afterwork, eating with friends. Thinking about visiting the Netherlands … Continue reading

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meeting with the CFO of Litium, Kristina Laurelii Checking out the tv-studio. My girl wants me to start working so I will be free tonight, what’s up?

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four hours of finance, starting at eight. mmm coffee! researching yahoo together with a Taiwanese this month. will be interesting Helping http://www.bomega.com with a SEO wordpress plugin A web developer approached me over the Internet to team up and make … Continue reading

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attending a seminar from the CEO of Hästens, Jan Ryde. Armani belt, challenging, friendly. looks like he slept well :)

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Tired of using stockphotos? http://www.nowpublic.com has a concept; Just received a request to upload my Flicker photo of Joran vd S. Having lunch with Sheridan Tatsuno, a screenwriter and startup strategist from the Valley. organizing an open coffee meeting here … Continue reading

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Article summary, making the deal real: How to integrate acquisitions

What would happen when yahoo gets bought by Microsoft? Many claim that the two companies have different cultures, and that there might be integration issues. I read an interesting article tonight: ”Making the deal real: How GE capital integrates acquisitions” … Continue reading

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http://twitpic.com/7h <- Attempt to make springrolls Late coverage; Joran van der Sloot in the Swedish Metro. http://flickr.com/photos/joopdorresteijn/2253423372/ pre-testing Midnight Inbox 2; Tell you more after the release of the first beta. My roommate from Melbourne has moved out… I think … Continue reading

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