18 Jul, 2007
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Today I did an interview with Clive Fernandes of loscreador.com about the web, about Fleck (and its future) and some personal stuff.
It is an interesting interview (if I may say so) with some nice quotes.
I don’t see myself as hugely successful, I’m having a great time and do cool stuff, but I haven’t sold a company yet. If I have to say what I think the key is to success, I would say: be open, be easily approachable, be honest, have fun, think in solutions and opportunities, grow your network and keep in mind to stay personal. I believe that the way we do business within the Internet scene will become a model for a lot of other sectors (if not all!)
about my first experience with a computer:
…..by accident my mom kept on typing at the end of the ‘screen’, the cursor automatically jumped to the next line! WOW! Right then we saw it. This is big!
On the future of search:
In 4 years we will probably laugh at the way we search now.
It is worthwhile reading
27 Jun, 2007
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During The Next Web Conference a journalist came up to me asking me some great and funny questions. It resulted in a one page story in the Amsterdam Weekly with a great header and a (mine) quote:
An attempt to unravel Web2.0 at The Next Web Conference… One scoop: “It’s one of the few web-based initiatives that hasn’t been born out of the porn industry”
I like it : )
27 May, 2007
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About a month ago I was interviewed for an article about fleck in the TED. It is a free paper for all high school kids. The section I was in is called “Meld je Held” (who’s your hero?).
One quote: “The Web democratic? Well it sounds great and philosophic, but it is just not true”
Read the full article here (on page 26/27)
30 Mar, 2007
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Last night I travelled to Rotterdam (my previous home town) to give a speech on Web2.0 (and Fleck) at an i-local meeting. Obviously web2.0 was something people would love to hear more about so 45 people showed up (the room was to small).
Keith from Lunatech invited me to tell something about the subject. Before me there were 2 speakers (of Lunatech and Cyso).
When Steven of Cyso gave his presentation he used a presentation style inspired by Hans Appel (CTO Sun Microsystems), the funny thing was that Appel was inspired by Dick Hardt ☺
I used the Hardt approach as well, but I had 59 minutes (that is the time the train takes to go from Amsterdam to Rotterdam) to make a presentation of 84 slides which I did in 15 minutes (after some startup problems with the beamer)!
After my presentation there were a lot of questions (of which I say to myself is a sign of a good or at least a controversial presentation).
It was my second presentation on web2.0 this month (I did a presentation for Eggink van Manen, a PR firm earlier this month) and I got compliments on my performance (probably because no one says in your face that you suck ☺ ).
Fleck blowed minds away! It is interesting to see that people look at a service and think “ok, this is it, so how do you make money” and that they miss the big picture, the vision. After some visionary talks about the web and fleck, a guy told me: “I never looked at it this way, but what you guys are doing is unDutch, you should relocate to Silicon Valley!”
He had a point….
