Serial Entrepreneur & Shoeshiner
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
- Current
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- Shoeshiner at New Tailor (Self-employed)
- Shareholder/Advisor at Wakoopa.com BV
- co-founder at Project Locazy
- Initiator at The Next Web Conference
- CEO/Founder at Fleck.com
- Founder/CEO at Preople.com
- Founder at Meganova BV
- Owner at Bomega BV
- Past
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- Chairman at IPAN
- Founder/CEO at Junker BV
- Founder/CEO at HubHop.com
- CEO at Jippy.com
- Advisor at FortuneCity / FlyNote
- Founder/CEO at V3 Redirect Services
- Education
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- Rijks Akademie
- ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten
- AKI
- Circusschool
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten’s Summary
I'm a Serial Internet Entrepreneur. I started my first company in 1997 and sold it during the hype of 1999. Starting companies, inventing innovative technology and coming up with new ideas is my daily work. A lot of my time is spent on keeping up with new trends on the web, internet and in technology in general and looking for opportunities.
I'm also the inventor of the Slurpr.com and TwitterMail.com and several other OpenIdeas which you can find on my blog: http://www.bomega.com
I live in the center of Amsterdam, the Netherlands with Tessa and our two daughters. Every first Saturday of the month I shine shoes at new Tailor so I am also a professional shoeshiner.
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten’s Specialties:
ideas, starting up business, innovation, creative input, design, interaction design, logo, Public Speaking, shoe-shining
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten’s Experience
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Shoeshiner
New Tailor (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Fine Art industry)
2008 — Present (less than a year)
As of February 2 I will be shining shoes every first Saturday of the month between 10 and 12 at new Tailor at the Honthorststraat 2a, (between the Paulus Potter- and the PC Hooftstraat) in Amsterdam.
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Shareholder/Advisor
Wakoopa.com BV
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
January 2007 — Present (1 year 5 months)
The Wakoopa founders came to us when they were hardly more than an idea. We offered them office space, guidance and helped them getting their first funding. Now they are incorporated we are official shareholders and advisor's and proud of it!
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co-founder
Project Locazy
(Internet industry)
2007 — Present (1 year)
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Initiator
The Next Web Conference
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
June 2006 — Present (2 years)
The Next Web Conference is a yearly Internationally focus Internet Conference where attendees, start-ups and speakers from all over the world come together to discuss the future of the web. The first edition took place in 2006 with more than 300 attendees. The second edition was in 2007 with more than 500 people and the third edition attracted more than 700 people from more than 30 countries.
The next Next Web conference will take place on April 2 and 3, 2009. More information on http://thenextweb.org/ and http://2009.thenextweb.org/ -
CEO/Founder
Fleck.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
October 2005 — Present (2 years 8 months)
Fleck is my newest project. It's still secret and we are now in the process of getting funding. As soon as we have something to show (it's patent pending software for the web) you will find it at http://www.Fleck.com
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Founder/CEO
Preople.com
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
March 2005 — Present (3 years 3 months)
Preople.com is an experiment to try out some ideas for a new search engine based on my ideas that search engines are not focused and interactive enough. Preople let's you search for a name and add a profile to that person. It is also a fairly sophisticated Blogging service. Check it out. All in beta...
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Founder
Meganova BV
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
2001 — Present (7 years)
Meganova is a private incubator. Several projects have started in Meganova and grew into companies. Check Meganova Website for more information
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Owner
Bomega BV
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)
1997 — Present (11 years)
Bomega Holding BV is my personal Holding company in which I hold shares in all the other projects I co-found. I also do some consulting work now and then and use Bomega to represent myself.
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Chairman
IPAN
(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
May 2005 — April 2008 (3 years)
IPAN (Interactive Professionals Associatie Nederland) was founded in 1998. At this moment there are 600+ members. The purpose of IPAN is to enable dutch creative Professionals to get together, be inspired by fellow creative Professionals, connect with other members and to simply enjoy a cold beer among friends. Every first tuesday of the month we all come together at Hotel Arena. More information can be found at http://www.ipan.nl
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Founder/CEO
Junker BV
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
July 2004 — 2005 (1 year)
Junker is a challenge/response anti-spam service that I started with Caspar Wenckebach. You can find it at http://www.junker.nl and try it for free for a few months. It works great!
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Founder/CEO
HubHop.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
March 2002 — 2004 (2 years)
HubHop, wireless internet service provider. Started in 2002, sold to KPN at the end of 2003. Currently named KPN Hotspots. I'm an advisor there now.
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CEO
Jippy.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year)
Jippy.com is a webbased and interactive Birthday calendar. Way ahead of it's time and still growing strong with now 900.000+ active members. Social networking before I ever heard of the term. Sold my shares on June 4, 2007.
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Advisor
FortuneCity / FlyNote
(Internet industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years)
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Founder/CEO
V3 Redirect Services
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years)
I was the founder (together with Hans Poul Veldhuijzen van Zanten and Eric Visser of V3.com. We hosted come.to, surf.to and a bunch of other domains and used them to redirect people to their personal homepages. e.g. http://come.to/boris
We sold the company (in 1999) to Fortunecity.
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten’s Education
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Rijks Akademie
1995 — 1997
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ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten
cl, Art, 1990 — 1995
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AKI
Art (Mixed Media) 1990 — 1995
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Circusschool
Juggling 1987 — 1989
- Activities and Societies:
- I left school when I was almost 16 years old and went to the circusschool. A tough learning experience. Not so much in technique (although I did learn how to juggle with 7 balls at the same time) but more in perseverance, steadfastness, self-discipline.
Additional Information
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten’s Interests:
Start-ups, Public Speaking, Help with Venture Capital, Check my Blog for more information: http://www.bomega.com
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten’s Groups:
The Next Web Conference
IPAN
OpenCoffee
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Kings of Code | A Gathering for Web Developers member -
The Next Web Conference & Blog member -
IPAN member
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