Category : ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Microsoft Docs – Microsoft Office 2010 Web Apps + Facebook > Google Docs ?

Microsoft Docs – Microsoft Office 2010 Web Apps + Facebook > Google Docs ?

Last week Facebook announced the release of Microsoft Docs -a collaborative project of Microsoft and Facebook- during the Facebook F8 conference. In addition to the Microsoft Docs introduction of Lili Cheng, General Manager of FUSE Labs, you can read the following description of Microsoft Docs on the Fuse Labs website:  “Discover. Create. Share. Now you can discover, [...]

Android Experience 2010 – Layar Business Models and the Android Ecosystem

Android Experience 2010 – Layar Business Models and the Android Ecosystem

I was fortunate being invited to attend the highly succesful first edition of the Android Experience, an event that adresses the Android ecosystem from different perspectives. In this article I will briefly summarize some of the highlights of Android Experience 2010 @ the Amsterdam Convention Factory. On the MobilityMinded website I have written an extensive event report, inline with [...]

Michael Hitt @ VentureLab Twente – Entrepreneurial Strategies, Building and Maintaining a Competitive Advantage

Michael Hitt @ VentureLab Twente – Entrepreneurial Strategies, Building and Maintaining a Competitive Advantage

On March 18th I was able to attend an open VentureLab Twente training about entrepreneurial strategies with professor Michael Hitt. In this article I will try to cover some of the highlights of the VentureLab Twente Open Training, without unraveling the complete details of the training, that was taylored at the entrepreneurs in the VentureLab program. :) Generic Strategies [...]

Vision on the Future – A Symposium @ University of Twente

Vision on the Future – A Symposium @ University of Twente

On October 21st 2009 student association Stress, from the faculty School of Management and Governance, organized a symposium with the central theme ”Vision on the Future“. According to the symposium leaflet the goal is “to give you as a student an impression fo what the market will look like in five years. [...] most students will be [...]

Business Model Generation – A handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers and Challengers

Business Model Generation – A handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers and Challengers

Back in June 2009 I visited the “Business Model Innovation Knowledge Fair and Book Launch” in Amsterdam, where a first (prototype)version of the Business Model Generation (hand)book was launched. Furthermore I was able to meet the book-team as well as over 100 business model practitioners from 13 different countries there. Last week I was very [...]

iPhone Application porting to Windows Mobile – Discussing an interesting case study !

iPhone Application porting to Windows Mobile – Discussing an interesting case study !

Constanze Roman -a Community PM with the Windows Mobile Community Team- has published an interesting article on the Windows Mobile Team blog with the title:  “Ready to Port your iPhone App to Windows Mobile?“ Although I’m not a developer,  nor having a formal Information Technology & Computer Science education, I would like to have a detailed look at [...]

VENTURE-TRAINING: Workshop Effectuation by Professor Saras Sarasvathy

VENTURE-TRAINING: Workshop Effectuation by Professor Saras Sarasvathy

I already wrote about the VentureLab Twente concept, but now it was time for the first three day training covering several interesting topics of venturing. This article will focus on an excellent one-day workshop and masterclass about effectuation, lectured by Professor Saras Sarasvathy.  Let’s first start with the definition of effectuation, before we take a dive [...]

VentureLab Twente for high-ambition techno starters !

VentureLab Twente for high-ambition techno starters !

If you want to start your own high-tech, high-growth business, than VentureLab Twente might be a good way to realize your ambitions as entrepreneur. VentureLab Twente is a combined project of:  (1) University of Twente; (2) Nikos, Dutch Institute for Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship; (3) Saxion Hogescholen; (4) Kennispark (“Knowledge Park”) Twente. Yesterday VentureLab Twente organized a [...]

European Masterclass on Corporate Entrepeneurship & Open Innovation with Henry Chesbrough & Kenneth Morse

European Masterclass on Corporate Entrepeneurship & Open Innovation with Henry Chesbrough & Kenneth Morse

A little more than a week ago, from November 24th – November 28th, I attended the much anticipated fifth European Masterclass on Corporate Entrepeneurship and Open Innovation organized by  Ronald Wolf (Philips) and Wim Vanhaverbeke (Hasselt University). The beautiful main location was the Conference Hotel Willibrordhaeghe in Deurne (Netherlands), while some sessions took place at the Philips High Tech Campus (Eindhoven). [...]

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