Archive for February, 2008

Photo’s from yesterdays Opencoffee

Posted under Entrepreneurship on Friday, 29 February 2008 by admin
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 Spray Ped I had a blast, and I want to...

Tweets from 2008-02-28

Posted under Quick posts on Thursday, 28 February 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
@timvandendool Our neighbors from Safetool.se RFID tags workers & tools on the construction site. Movie:...

8 Reasons why Silicon Valley is a success.

Posted under Entrepreneurship on Thursday, 28 February 2008 by admin
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. Sillicon Valleys Ecosystem stimulates global and open view 5. A private university...

Tweets from 2008-02-27

Posted under Quick posts on Wednesday, 27 February 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
met the ex CEO of 3com, Gaëtan Cantale Researching the development of the acquisition of last.fm by...

The rise of Silicon Valley in 100 words

Posted under Entrepreneurship on Wednesday, 27 February 2008 by admin
<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 cluster of chip...

Tweets from 2008-02-26

Posted under Quick posts on Tuesday, 26 February 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
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 till Thursday night, "celebrating the new booking...

Launch of opencoffee.se in Sweden, interview from Ezine

Posted under Media / In The News on Tuesday, 26 February 2008 by admin
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 the international phenomenon to...

Three marketing questions every interested VC will ask you.

Posted under Entrepreneurship on Tuesday, 26 February 2008 by admin
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. Do you have names, email and phone numbers of...

Tweets from 2008-02-25

Posted under Quick posts on Monday, 25 February 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
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...

Tweets from 2008-02-23

Posted under Quick posts on Saturday, 23 February 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
Bought a fresh salmon in the...

Tweets from 2008-02-22

Posted under Quick posts on Friday, 22 February 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
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...

Tweets from 2008-02-21

Posted under Quick posts on Thursday, 21 February 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
Thursday egosearch: Finally landed on the first page of Google with the search term 'Joop'... back to...

Tweets from 2008-02-20

Posted under Quick posts on Wednesday, 20 February 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
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...

Tweets from 2008-02-18

Posted under Quick posts on Monday, 18 February 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
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 term "dating" does not exist in cold, high alcohol taxed...

Tweets from 2008-02-17

Posted under Quick posts on Sunday, 17 February 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
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...

Tweets from 2008-02-15

Posted under Quick posts on Friday, 15 February 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
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 sometime in april 2008 We launched...

Tweets from 2008-02-14

Posted under Quick posts on Thursday, 14 February 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
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...

Tweets from 2008-02-13

Posted under Quick posts on Wednesday, 13 February 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
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 the DA facebook application a bit...

Tweets from 2008-02-12

Posted under Quick posts on Tuesday, 12 February 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
attending a seminar from the CEO of Hästens, Jan Ryde. Armani belt, challenging, friendly. looks like he slept well...

Lunch with Sheridan Tatsuno

Posted under Quick posts on Tuesday, 12 February 2008 by Joop Dorresteijn
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 in Jönköping. Two...

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

Posted under Entrepreneurship on Tuesday, 12 February 2008 by admin
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” I decided to post the summary...

Thoughts from today 2008-02-07

Posted under Quick posts on Thursday, 7 February 2008 by admin
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...