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Paragliding at a Korean army base
Want to join paragliding this weekend? - off course! that’s a no brainer! In reality, the relaxing chair and the calm speed got me disappointed, I should have thought of bringing a good book to read. Some people manage to stay up there for a long time! As the first foreigners at this Korean army base, I had some joy in getting a good overview of the ’secret’ weapons on… Continue reading... | 1 Comment
What do you get when you combine a cinema, pool and cheap hotel?
We visited a jjimjilbang in Busan last night; The jjimjilbang concept comes close to a bath-house, it is a combination of sauna, hotel and gym. I just spend a night there for $10, and I am excited, what an experience! I slept on the marble floor but had a massage in return!
Imagine a 24 hour serviced building with cinema room, hot baths, sauna, bars, restaurants and pc/tv rooms. You walk around in… Continue reading... | 3 Comments
[openidea] Stream free Internet TV on your iPhone and iPod Touch
More and more people are starting to watch TV on their mobile phone. Not so strange, the reason is simple: The amount of bored office clerks waiting for their bus/metro of train is huge! However, millions of iPhone and Touch users are not so fortunate and have to watch iTunes provided content, Hello? Here’s an idea: let’s be the first to supply them with the 5000 tv streams that are… Continue reading... | 7 Comments
Why so little Korean web companies get ‘Techcrunched’
Most Koreans are addicted to the web, I wonder, Seoul must be a breeding place for new web ventures? I approached Chang W. Kim, to get an idea of what is going on. Chang is CEO of the biggest blog site in Korea. He explains his views on European projects, the Seoul web-scene and funding in his region. Continue reading... | 4 Comments
Improving entrepreneurship in your city.
1. Find the unique characteristics of your location.
2. Base everything on local values and culture.
3. Plan and mobilize the ecosystem.
4. Find global partners.
5. Initiate conferences and an ecosystem of networking.
6. Market globally.
7. Revise national laws… Continue reading...
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:
I had a… Continue reading...
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. Sillicon Valleys Ecosystem stimulates global and open view
5. A private university that has to prove itself, and allows free thinkers (Stanford), and local universities/colleges
6… Continue reading... | 1 Comment
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 cluster of chip manufactures
1970s: First drawback, because of the oil crisis
1980s: Apple and the PC and semiconductor & Biotech boom.
1990s: Internet boom
2000s: Dot.com bubble burst
The Valley came back stronger… Continue reading...
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 the international phenomenon to Jönköping.
The goal is to create a situation where new ideas are created. Its going to be an informal meeting where you can sit in… Continue reading... | 1 Comment
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. Do you have names, email and phone numbers of your customers (if you don’t, you will fail as a engineer who doesn’t know how to spell business, or as a ‘Steve… Continue reading...
