The Next Web Open Office Road Trip
Written on January 30, 2008 – 8:12 pm
Patrick de Laive, Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of Fleck
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In February we’re going to several cities in Europe to meet entrepreneurs, speakers and sponsors for The Next Web Conference. 
It is kind of a road trip, but with a twist. We’re not only there for having chats and coffee, we will work there too. Last years Open Office trip to San Francisco was so much fun and we met a lot of interesting people while getting a lot of work done at offices of Plaxo, Yahoo Brickhouse, Mashery and MySQL, that we decided to do another trip, this time Geneva, Brussels, Paris and London are on our schedule.
For our trip we are looking for startups (or established companies) who have office space for us (a table, 3/4 chairs and a wifi connection is all we need) for one day. This is a nice way to meet new people and work at the same time. We will blog about the our tour on The Next Web conference page and we’ll post stories here as well (for sure).
The Agenda:
- Geneva, February 6,7 and 8 (We’re attending LIFT Conference. Get a 10% discount to this conference -use nextweb@lift as a discount code).
- Brussels, February 13
- Paris, February 14 and 15 (we’re attending OpenCoffee on the 15th)
- London, February 20 and 21st (we’re attending OpenCoffee on the 21st)
We have a tight budget, so we’ll be traveling cattle class and stay in cheap hotels (recommendations are welcome) or with friends. After my 16 euro a night hostel disaster in Munich last week, I’ve decided to upgrade to a real hotel during this trip.
For all cities we’re looking for a place to work and we will also set up a small party to grab a beer with and suggestions for venues are welcome.
So if you have suggestions and like to meet up with Boris, Ernst-Jan, Arjen, Babette and/or Patrick please get in touch or leave a comment.
I’ve checked out some potential startup offices in the different cities were we’d love to hang around work. Mobiya, DVDpost, Netvibes, Dailymotion, Wixi, Goojet, intruders AtlasVenture, Criteo, Piczo, Tunz, Wikio, Scoopeo, Vpod.tv, OpenAds, King.com, Joost, Moo Dopplr, and/or Last.fm
If you know more cool companies in these cities, please leave a comment too.
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19 Responses to “The Next Web Open Office Road Trip”
By Daniel Remeseiro on Jan 30, 2008 | Reply
what about Madrid in your plans?
By Patrick de Laive on Jan 31, 2008 | Reply
@daniel, unfortunately we can’t have it all. We wanted to visit Spain and Germany as well, but we have little time and this worked out with our traveling schedule…
I love Spain and it is time to keep up with my Spanish again. Is there a good web scene in Madrid?
By Christophe Lenaerts on Jan 31, 2008 | Reply
If you are looking for a place in Brussels, we can host you. We are 2 minutes from the airport and 20 minutes from the train station.
By Bas van den Beld on Jan 31, 2008 | Reply
He Guys,
he’s not in Europe, but as you know I spoke with Jason Calacanis in Paris at LeWeb and asked him if he would want to come to Amsterdam. He said: “invite me”, I think he would be interested. Would be a great speaker for The Next Web I think.
By Patrick de Laive on Jan 31, 2008 | Reply
@christophe thanks, can you sen dme your address etc patrick at thenextweb.org
@bas Jason was supposed to be at The Next Web last year, but a month before the conference he cancelled. I did invite him but haven’t heard back yet… I’ll drop him another line
By Christophe Lenaerts on Jan 31, 2008 | Reply
Patrick, we are in Excelsiorlaan 23 in Zaventem. More info and roadmap on http://www.telemak.com/contactus.php.
Google maps:
By Bas van den Beld on Jan 31, 2008 | Reply
Really? Wow, that’s too bad… Maybe this time its different because he wants to promote Mahalo ;).
I’ve got some other idea’s but probably you guys already cam up with those too ;).
I’m at the SES in London next month if you want someone I should talk to let me know. Let’s do coffee next month :).
By Steven Carroll on Jan 31, 2008 | Reply
Have a great trip guys, I will look forward to hearing all about it all, take a camera and make a youtube blockbuster road movie.
By Rodrigo A. SEPULVEDA SCHULZ on Feb 1, 2008 | Reply
Guys, you’re welcome to join us on the 15th in Paris ! And I highly recommend the Netvibes offices !
By Geoffrey McCaleb on Feb 1, 2008 | Reply
Would love to meet up when you hit London though are offices sadly are tight as it is.
Any evening plans as of yet?
By Patrick on Feb 2, 2008 | Reply
@rodrigo That is a deal. We’ll trash your office on Friday :)
@Geoffrey We’re planning to go to Open Coffee on thursday morning and we will work at DN Capital and probably Piczo. No night plans yet, but I’m open for a drink in a bar where a lot of web savvies like to go. Do you have a suggestion?
I can make an upcoming page… We can have some drinks, share stories and have fun
By leafar on Feb 4, 2008 | Reply
I’ll be your host for the opencoffee in paris that’s for sure.
I’ll try to see what if i can do more before the end of the week.
By Patrick de Laive on Feb 5, 2008 | Reply
Hi leafer, Thanks, looking forward to it. Hope a lot of people are going to the OpenCoffee
By Cedric on Feb 7, 2008 | Reply
Damn !
You’re just coming to Paris when I’ll come back to Toulouse for a few days… too sad…
In fact, Goojet does not have any office in Paris yet so I don’t know where I could had received you ;)
See you soon !
By leafar on Feb 11, 2008 | Reply
Paris is ready for your visit.
Just to remind you that the opencoffee takes place on the thursday which is the 14th and not the 15th.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2394379254
By Jacques Froissant on Feb 11, 2008 | Reply
In Paris I recommand also : Bluekiwi Software, and Moovement.
By Patrick de Laive on Feb 12, 2008 | Reply
Thanks all for your suggestions. Looking forward to meeting the Parisian clan at OpenCoffee