Eyes on the prize I surely have a busy week behind me. Worth mentioning are that at Thursday I attended and blogged for TEDxRotterdam, and in the weekend I participated in the Enterprize which is a contest for starting entrepreneurs. I already have a few balls rolling but I entered the contest with a business idea I actually need some funding for. I also entered the contest because I believe it’s an idea that could use adjustment here and there and I actually made a few. I also met a lot of young creatives from in and around Rotterdam which might even be more valuable. So what would I like to realize you might ask yourself, well the last six years I’ve primarily focussed on new media and the Internet, but originally I came from a family that had a restaurant. I’ve been working from home but I realized that I didn’t want to do that for the rest of my life and I always dreamt about what it would be like to have a bar where people can work from. I’ll outline a few steps of how this dream formed in my head. Eight years ago I had a thing with this exchange student from Finland who lived in the Hague, I was 18 at the time and she was 25 and probably thought I was 23 or something because when she saw my ID she kicked me out for being too young. I wasn’t planning on leaving so I went downstairs where there was an Internet cafe. I found out I could enter the web there and even order something to eat and I might have ordered a whisky at around 1pm. She called me a little later and was welcomed back in. I have never forgotten this, not because of her, but because of the freedom I felt at the cafe, I mean, working and ordering a scotch with your sandwich?  Five years ago I was attending a study in MultiMedia Design and I wondered about a production studio that would double as a club in the weekend. You see, you could have a lot of the equipment already to make great pictures and videos of the parties taking place. During the day the crew would be able to work on websites or use the photo studio and come weekend, the desks would simply roll away backstage. This was maybe a little silly but it stuck with me. Last year I was already working from home for quite a while and it hit me that I don’t want to do this for the rest of my life. You see, when I go out to have a drink or lunch with a prospect or partner, you’re always surrounded by people that don’t want to do business and don’t care about what you’re up to at all. Even in my spare time when I try to just have a few laughs this is the case, and I might not want to do business in those moments, I do however like being surrounded by people that might. There’s three kinds of people in this world, those that make stuff happen, those who observe and those who wake up one day saying; “Huh, what happened?!”  I want to create a bar just for that first group and we’ll also be open for those in the second if they’re interested, the third group can stay in bed. How will this modern Internet bar/cafe look? What will it offer? I’ll jot that down in a post after this one. Please let me know what you think.

Eyes on the prize

I surely have a busy week behind me. Worth mentioning are that at Thursday I attended and blogged for TEDxRotterdam, and in the weekend I participated in the Enterprize which is a contest for starting entrepreneurs.

I already have a few balls rolling but I entered the contest with a business idea I actually need some funding for. I also entered the contest because I believe it’s an idea that could use adjustment here and there and I actually made a few. I also met a lot of young creatives from in and around Rotterdam which might even be more valuable.

So what would I like to realize you might ask yourself, well the last six years I’ve primarily focussed on new media and the Internet, but originally I came from a family that had a restaurant. I’ve been working from home but I realized that I didn’t want to do that for the rest of my life and I always dreamt about what it would be like to have a bar where people can work from. I’ll outline a few steps of how this dream formed in my head.

Eight years ago I had a thing with this exchange student from Finland who lived in the Hague, I was 18 at the time and she was 25 and probably thought I was 23 or something because when she saw my ID she kicked me out for being too young. I wasn’t planning on leaving so I went downstairs where there was an Internet cafe. I found out I could enter the web there and even order something to eat and I might have ordered a whisky at around 1pm. She called me a little later and was welcomed back in. I have never forgotten this, not because of her, but because of the freedom I felt at the cafe, I mean, working and ordering a scotch with your sandwich? 

Five years ago I was attending a study in MultiMedia Design and I wondered about a production studio that would double as a club in the weekend. You see, you could have a lot of the equipment already to make great pictures and videos of the parties taking place. During the day the crew would be able to work on websites or use the photo studio and come weekend, the desks would simply roll away backstage. This was maybe a little silly but it stuck with me.

Last year I was already working from home for quite a while and it hit me that I don’t want to do this for the rest of my life. You see, when I go out to have a drink or lunch with a prospect or partner, you’re always surrounded by people that don’t want to do business and don’t care about what you’re up to at all. Even in my spare time when I try to just have a few laughs this is the case, and I might not want to do business in those moments, I do however like being surrounded by people that might.

There’s three kinds of people in this world, those that make stuff happen, those who observe and those who wake up one day saying; “Huh, what happened?!” 

I want to create a bar just for that first group and we’ll also be open for those in the second if they’re interested, the third group can stay in bed.

How will this modern Internet bar/cafe look? What will it offer? I’ll jot that down in a post after this one. Please let me know what you think.

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Eyes on the prize I surely have a busy week behind me. Worth mentioning are that at Thursday I attended and blogged for TEDxRotterdam, and in the weekend I participated in the Enterprize which is a contest for starting entrepreneurs. I already have a few balls rolling but I entered the contest with a business idea I actually need some funding for. I also entered the contest because I believe it’s an idea that could use adjustment here and there and I actually made a few. I also met a lot of young creatives from in and around Rotterdam which might even be more valuable. So what would I like to realize you might ask yourself, well the last six years I’ve primarily focussed on new media and the Internet, but originally I came from a family that had a restaurant. I’ve been working from home but I realized that I didn’t want to do that for the rest of my life and I always dreamt about what it would be like to have a bar where people can work from. I’ll outline a few steps of how this dream formed in my head. Eight years ago I had a thing with this exchange student from Finland who lived in the Hague, I was 18 at the time and she was 25 and probably thought I was 23 or something because when she saw my ID she kicked me out for being too young. I wasn’t planning on leaving so I went downstairs where there was an Internet cafe. I found out I could enter the web there and even order something to eat and I might have ordered a whisky at around 1pm. She called me a little later and was welcomed back in. I have never forgotten this, not because of her, but because of the freedom I felt at the cafe, I mean, working and ordering a scotch with your sandwich?  Five years ago I was attending a study in MultiMedia Design and I wondered about a production studio that would double as a club in the weekend. You see, you could have a lot of the equipment already to make great pictures and videos of the parties taking place. During the day the crew would be able to work on websites or use the photo studio and come weekend, the desks would simply roll away backstage. This was maybe a little silly but it stuck with me. Last year I was already working from home for quite a while and it hit me that I don’t want to do this for the rest of my life. You see, when I go out to have a drink or lunch with a prospect or partner, you’re always surrounded by people that don’t want to do business and don’t care about what you’re up to at all. Even in my spare time when I try to just have a few laughs this is the case, and I might not want to do business in those moments, I do however like being surrounded by people that might. There’s three kinds of people in this world, those that make stuff happen, those who observe and those who wake up one day saying; “Huh, what happened?!”  I want to create a bar just for that first group and we’ll also be open for those in the second if they’re interested, the third group can stay in bed. How will this modern Internet bar/cafe look? What will it offer? I’ll jot that down in a post after this one. Please let me know what you think.

Eyes on the prize

I surely have a busy week behind me. Worth mentioning are that at Thursday I attended and blogged for TEDxRotterdam, and in the weekend I participated in the Enterprize which is a contest for starting entrepreneurs.

I already have a few balls rolling but I entered the contest with a business idea I actually need some funding for. I also entered the contest because I believe it’s an idea that could use adjustment here and there and I actually made a few. I also met a lot of young creatives from in and around Rotterdam which might even be more valuable.

So what would I like to realize you might ask yourself, well the last six years I’ve primarily focussed on new media and the Internet, but originally I came from a family that had a restaurant. I’ve been working from home but I realized that I didn’t want to do that for the rest of my life and I always dreamt about what it would be like to have a bar where people can work from. I’ll outline a few steps of how this dream formed in my head.

Eight years ago I had a thing with this exchange student from Finland who lived in the Hague, I was 18 at the time and she was 25 and probably thought I was 23 or something because when she saw my ID she kicked me out for being too young. I wasn’t planning on leaving so I went downstairs where there was an Internet cafe. I found out I could enter the web there and even order something to eat and I might have ordered a whisky at around 1pm. She called me a little later and was welcomed back in. I have never forgotten this, not because of her, but because of the freedom I felt at the cafe, I mean, working and ordering a scotch with your sandwich? 

Five years ago I was attending a study in MultiMedia Design and I wondered about a production studio that would double as a club in the weekend. You see, you could have a lot of the equipment already to make great pictures and videos of the parties taking place. During the day the crew would be able to work on websites or use the photo studio and come weekend, the desks would simply roll away backstage. This was maybe a little silly but it stuck with me.

Last year I was already working from home for quite a while and it hit me that I don’t want to do this for the rest of my life. You see, when I go out to have a drink or lunch with a prospect or partner, you’re always surrounded by people that don’t want to do business and don’t care about what you’re up to at all. Even in my spare time when I try to just have a few laughs this is the case, and I might not want to do business in those moments, I do however like being surrounded by people that might.

There’s three kinds of people in this world, those that make stuff happen, those who observe and those who wake up one day saying; “Huh, what happened?!” 

I want to create a bar just for that first group and we’ll also be open for those in the second if they’re interested, the third group can stay in bed.

How will this modern Internet bar/cafe look? What will it offer? I’ll jot that down in a post after this one. Please let me know what you think.

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