Posts Tagged ‘Serial entrepreneur’

vt // 23.12.2008

Peter Vesterbacka: Tough times generate great opportunities @ LeWeb

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Peter Vesterbacka is a serial entrepreneur from Finland who left HP two years ago with the intent to build further start-ups. Peter had already founded MobileMonday in 2000, a grass roots community for people in the mobile business that has grown into the world’s leading mobile community present in 70 cities around the globe. Peter is also the founder of ConnectedDay, a community site aimed at enriching the dialogue between professional daycare centres, parents and children. Furthermore, Peter co-founded Star Wreck Studios, that has been hugely successful with its first feature film production „Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning“, a film in Finish language with 8 million downloads. Peter has now created WreckAMovie.Com, a new service around fim production. Another new service is Zipiko – described by Peter as „a cool business model all around intention“. Zipiko works well on high-end mobiles and lets your friends know what you would like or are planning to do. Peter started working with Zipiko a while ago and finds „they have a great team and are definitely going to go places. If you know people’s intent, it’s hugely valuable for marketing purposes.“ Although there’s a lot of doom and gloom out there, Peter is positive that „this is the best time to start a company. It’s cheap and people will have lots of time to participate“. As an advice for start-ups, Peter points out: „I’m a big believer in ecosystem. Stand up, look around the ecosystem, ask yourself who your competitors are and with who you could partner with. That’s the best way to understand the big picture.“

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vt // 20.10.2008

put out your own talent contest: talentsplanet – Dick Rempt @ PICNIC

At the PICNIC conference in Amsterdam, there have been lots of business ideas flowing around. Dick Rempt is a venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur, he calls himself a company builder. But just investing is not enough for him. Than he got in touch with the idea of talentsplanet, he could not resist and set up the startup himself. Watch the video to discover what talentsplanet is about and what Dick thinks about learning and failing.
Dick Rempt is driven by an approach of partnering and sharing so he is always looking for cooperations and new ideas. You have a service or product which would enrich or promote the idea of talentsplanet? Do not hesitate to contact Dick! picnic conference amsterdam From 24th to 26th of September 2008, hundreds of creative minds from all over the world came together in Amsterdam for the third PICNIC. More information and pictures shot at the event you will find on the eventsite picnicnetwork.org
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vt // 07.10.2008

getting young adults into charity – Martin de Ronde about onebiggame.org @ picnic

At the PICNIC conference there have been lots of business ideas flowing around. Martin de Ronde is a successful serial entrepreneur, who just sold his last company. With lots of free time he decided to set up something with charity but with an entrepreneurial and fun approach. Watch the video to discover what he is doing and how he is attracting young adults to charity.

If you are interested in more information about onebiggame.org you can find some other very interesting interviews with Martin de Ronde here and here.

Social entrepreneurship is no new thing, it always existed. Social entrepreneurs recognize social problems and use entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change. Success for them is related to the impact they have on society. That is different to business entrepreneurs who typically measure performance in profit and return. (source of defintion: wikipedia)

But more or less new is, that there is a big movement of social entrepreneurs using the Internet, digital media or web2.0 mechanisms to let the big change happen. One of the most famous examples is the US-based kiva.org founded in November 2005, enabling micro loans for entrepreneurs all over the world through an Internet based platform where anybody can participate by contributing as little as 25$. Being enormously featured through press and media such as CNN and BBC, or through personalities and politicians such as Bill Clinton, kiva could raise more than impressively 45mill$ for more than 63.000 loans so far. Seth Godin already called it in 2005 "...a great first step in opening up bottlenecks." And Guy Kawasaki mentions six lessons which any entrepreneur can learn from the kiva phenomenon. So take your courage and change the world!

Just in case you plan to set up you own social business, here is a great presentation on how to plan your social enterprise:
Social Enterprise Planning Guide
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: social enterprise)


picnic conference amsterdam From 24 to 26 September 2008, hundreds of creative minds from all over the world came together in Amsterdam for the third PICNIC. For nice fotos, shot at the event follow the link to the eventsite picnicnetwork.org
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