Author Archives: Edo

Inspirational fuel: Motivational speech by Al Pacino, “Peace by Inches”

Let’s venture into 2009 on fire with Al Pacino’s motivational speech in “Any given Sunday”, highly recommended to turn up the volume. Have a great new year’s eve !

The “six inches in front of your face”, that’s where we Live. It’s the choices you make in that place that ultimately defines you, and, over time, [...]

Edo turns 2.0

Today (the 24st of December) I finally turn the big twenty. Birthdays don’t have much meaning to me, but it’s a great stepping stone for something new.
Talking about new; Recently I had some pictures taken for the website redesign that’s coming up, and Linkvive, the concept I blogged about a while ago, might still [...]

What is your Google track record ?

Be very picky about your Google track record; as an aspiring internet entrepreneur you should realize how important the results for your name are.
The first thing a potential partner, investor, employee or employer does nowadays is Google your name, I already wrote a post on this subject a while back. Today I stumbled upon a [...]

The odds of you making the new facebook, tiny !

This is one of those inspirational and refreshing speeches that have the ability to blow apart your perspective on entrepeneurship and business. It’s incredibly old, but so good, that even if you already saw it, it should be worthwile to watch it again.
David heinemeier hansson of 37 Signals ( that company which makes totally awesome [...]

Giving future entrepeneurs in India a helping hand

Together with 8 other students at school I have been working on a charity project that intends to build 2 schools in Ahmedabad, India for underpriviliged children. Things are really starting to kick off, so I decided to do a blogpost on our project: Brick by Brick
Brick by Brick is a project that aims to [...]

There is no reason to do shit you hate !

I just had to share this video of Gary Vaynerchuck, a leading expert on personal branding. There’s no need to comment any further apart from maybe sharing these awesome quotes to get you enticed:
- There is NO REASON in 2009 to do shit you hate, none.
- Stop crying and just start hustling.
- We’re building businesses [...]

In the local newspaper

Spudu, one of my pet-projects was recently featured in “Het Parool” the local Amsterdam newspaper. Pretty Awesome!
For many entrepeneurs this is nothing special, as it’s just a local newspaper. But to me it holds a certain promise: it’s the first time I have been featured in a newspaper for one of my efforts and I [...]

OpenCoffee Amsterdam

I just got back from the monthly Opencoffee meetup in Amsterdam. An awesome crowd and a great chance to meet some interesting people.
Opencoffee is a monthly meeting for entrepeneurs that happen to be in or around the area of Amsterdam. Anyone that wants to have an Informal chat about the latest startup is welcome. I [...]

Time for change


Too cool, Spudu shirt

The quality is a bit cheap, but hey its a Spudu shirt, how immensely cool is that !