Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten http://bomega.com Internet Entrepreneur, Public Speaker, Blogger Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:58:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 4.5552.23TheInternetEntrepreneurhttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with FeedLoungeSubscribe with The Free DictionarySubscribe with Bitty BrowserSubscribe with NewsAlloySubscribe with Live.comSubscribe with Excite MIXSubscribe with Yourminis.comSubscribe with Attensa for OutlookSubscribe with WebwagSubscribe with netomat HubThanks for reading and commenting on my blog The Internet Entrepreneur Open Thread Radio Interview http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheInternetEntrepreneur/~3/X6GLCBiOIAs/ http://bomega.com/2010/07/12/open-thread-radio-interview/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:58:10 +0000 Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten http://bomega.com/?p=1331 Open Thread Radio, presented by Kemal Rijken: “We talk to Internet entrepreneur Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten and venture capitalist Sharon Weinbar about how the low overheads associated with starting an online business means that it is possible to start a business in a weekend and how start-up’s should just get on with it.” Open Thread Radio, presented by Kemal Rijken: “We talk to Internet entrepreneur Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten and venture capitalist Sharon Weinbar about how the low overheads associated with starting an online business means that it is possible to start a business in a weekend and how start-up’s should just get on with it.”

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Winnaar: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten: De kunst van het trendwatchen

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten is een zakenman en heeft zich het bloggen en het duiden van kansen op het word wide web en het mobiele web eigengemaakt. Met de Next Web en Bowlr is hij in staat om de Tech- en Digi-wereld van achter de computer vandaan te trekken en mensen samen te brengen. Met de Next Web blog en Bomega blog toont hij zich ook een visionair in deze wereld. In een korte tijd schrijven veel visionairs interessante bijdragen voor hem. Zijn blog is een vroegtijdige bühne voor vernieuwing. Boris is een echte spotter, maar doorbreekt ook grenzen met zijn talenten, events en weblogs. Als kunstenaar is hij in staat om anders naar fenomenen te kijken. Daarmee onderscheidt hij zich als trendwatcher in zijn niche.

They also showed this photo made by Robin de Puy and will publish a video interview later. I like the photo because it is a less polished and more casual version compared to the usual ‘suit and tie’ photos you see from me.

Photo by Robin de Puy

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Erno Hannink made a short video and posted it to Youtube. Here it is:

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Yesterday (November 26, 2009) I was a guest in Jort Kelder’s new show titled “Bij ons in de BV“.

I was invited to talk about ‘The Perfect Idea’ and how to find it.

The show is in Dutch and my segment starts at the 28:50 marker:

]]> http://bomega.com/2009/11/27/video-bij-ons-in-de-bv/feed/ 5 http://bomega.com/2009/11/27/video-bij-ons-in-de-bv/ “There are more currencies than money” http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheInternetEntrepreneur/~3/85PXFVbqGqM/ http://bomega.com/2009/11/04/there-are-more-currencies-than-money/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:05:27 +0000 Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten http://bomega.com/?p=1274 A few years ago Patrick and me were invited to greek Blogger Camp. It was a very inspiring trip and we met a lot of great people. We felt, and were treated, like VIPs and stayed in beautiful hotels, enjoyed great food and partied all night. At that same trip we also met Timothy Ferriss. [...] A few years ago Patrick and me were invited to greek Blogger Camp. It was a very inspiring trip and we met a lot of great people. We felt, and were treated, like VIPs and stayed in beautiful hotels, enjoyed great food and partied all night.

At that same trip we also met Timothy Ferriss.
Yeah, 4 hour workweek Ferriss. He gave a presentation right after me in which he explained his idea about “more currencies than money”. What it comes down to is that if you want to do big mountain skiing in the Andes then you shouldn’t spend your life in a cubicle saving money to go big mountain skiing in the Andes one day.

You should just go.

Don’t take the detour to achieving your dreams. I was sitting there, in my swimming trunks, looking out over the warm blue Greek ocean and I ‘got’ it. I wasn’t doing boring work to go be able to afford a vacation to Greece; I was working in Greece, and it felt like a vacation!

boris in marijn

Fast forward to 2009 and Huub van Zwieten. Huub wrote a book on how to quit your job. He isn’t saying that you shouldn’t work. He is saying that there are some people who are so passionate about the work they do that they don’t even consider it a job. I’m in that book too and one quote that he highlighted is “There are more currencies than money”.

Yeah, the quote I stole learned from Timothy. The reason I’m in the book, according to Huub: “Boris inspires in combining personal and professional life, with extraordinary results and a lot of fun”.

Now Huub is organizing an event, in the Netherlands, which I’m going to attend. On Novemeber 20 where you can experience the same adventure that Marijn (who the book is about) experiences. Would be cool to see you all there:

http://talentfirst.nl/werkeninovervloed/

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See all his work or just this movie about his little white marble boat:

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via youtube.com

Their first (or one of the first) public appearances.

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