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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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). [...]
