Written on July 27, 2007 – 1:58 am Patrick de Laive, Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of Fleck
Respectance just raised 1,5 million euros from Solid Ventures and Big Bang Ventures. Respectance did a showcase at The Next Web 2007 and left a very good impression with the audience and not surprisingly, delegates of Solid Ventures and Big Bang Ventures where in that same audience as well.
It seems like something nice sprouted out of that presentation.
Respectance is a social tribute network to honor the deceased.
TV4B did an interview with Richard Derks of Respectance during The Next Web Conference. check it out. (more…)
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Written on July 19, 2007 – 5:54 pm Patrick de Laive, Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of Fleck
Rod Beckstrom is the author of the highly successful business book ‘The Starfish and the Spider’. He was the last speaker of The Next Web Conference 2007 and did a great job. He was inspiring, enthusiastic and gave everyone a lot of food for the brain.
Keynote: Rod Beckstrom - The Starfish and the Spider(more…)
Written on July 16, 2007 – 1:12 pm Patrick de Laive, Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of Fleck
Saul Klein was the first Keynote speaker of The Next Web Conference 2007. He is a partner at Index Ventures and investor in almost all hot european startups of the last couple off years (moo, last.fm, joost, stardoll, spotrunner).
In February this year Saul started a discussion on his blog about “Y Europe can seed growth of its new stars” pointing out all the strengths and advantages Europe has over Silicon Valley. He wants to create better circumstances for startups to grow to multi million companies. Right after this blogpost he started Open Coffee. The First Open Coffee was in London in March (Amsterdam was the second) and the OpenCoffeeClub spreaded out over Europe (and even the US). At the moment there are more then 60 OpenCoffee Meetup Cities worldwide.
Saul didn’t end his European improvement vision after OpenCoffee. Inspired by yCombinator and TechStar, he started a European startups school under the name SeedCamp (if you’re a talented developer/entrepreneur take a look at it).
2 winners of SeedCamp will be presenting their startup during the 2008 version of The Next Web. (more…)
Written on July 16, 2007 – 11:13 am Patrick de Laive, Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of Fleck
Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis are organizing TechCrunch20. It is definitely worthwhile attending. They have an impressive list of industry experts attending (among others… Marc Andreessen, Caterina Fake, Chris Anderson, and my favourite.. Marissa Meyer).
Startups can launch their new stuff (if chosen) for free to a great audience and get free entrance to the conference.
Over 600 companies were submitted to get one of the 20 launch opportunities! Technically speaking the deadline already expired, but if you have the hottest company in the world and want to launch at TC20 I would send in your submission form today.
Level 3 installed a Red Couch in the lobby of the Tuschinski theatre at The Next Web 2007 and interviewed a lot of speakers and visitors. They asked question sush as “What would you change on the web” and “What are you most looking forward to on the web”.
Cara Mascini - amsix
Dick Hardt - sxip
Edo van Santen - TV4B Streaming Business
Daniel McPherson - The Internet Address Book
Joe Drumgoole - putplace
Kaj Hege Haggman - Nokia
Marc Canter - Broadband Mechanics
Onno Baker - ebuddy
Robert Gaal - wakoopa
Rod Beckstrom - Starfish and the Spider
Tapan Bhat - Yahoo
Thomas Owandenko - Trivop
Johannes la Poutre - squio
Atze Zwirs - visitopia
Tommy Ahlers - Zyb Aps
Jeff Clavier - SoftTech VC
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten - Next Web Organizer
One of the things we are very proud of is the amount of new stuff that was announced at the Next Web Conference this year. I spent one post on the 2007 blog just trying to sum up some of the factual news items I could remember but there were many more!
For the future we hope the Next Web will be a logical place to launch your start-up, promote a new feature or demo a new product. We already have a few companies that are scheduling a year ahead to be able to do some cool stuff at next years conference.
If you are the founder of a start-up or manager of a product that will need extra attention next year then feel free to contact us in time so we can plan ahead.
Written on July 27, 2007 – 1:58 am
Saul Klein was the first Keynote speaker of The Next Web Conference 2007. He is a partner at Index Ventures and investor in almost all hot european startups of the last couple off years (
Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis are organizing TechCrunch20. It is definitely worthwhile attending. They have an impressive list of industry experts attending (among others… Marc Andreessen, Caterina Fake, Chris Anderson, and my favourite.. Marissa Meyer).
Written on June 20, 2007 – 12:37 pm
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