
Wakoopa Co-founder, All-round Web Developer
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Wakoopa Co-founder, All-round Web Developer
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
All-round web developer and entrepreneur with a background in design and writing. Co-founder and CEO of Wakoopa, an online software discovery platform. Focus on social web applications, international business and product development.
Back- and front-end web development, interface design, weblogs & writing, business development, marketing, product management
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
Wakoopa is an online social network that helps people discover the best software, games and web applications on the market. I co-founded the company together with Wouter Broekhof in 2007.
Wakoopa is a social network that helps people discover the best software, games and web apps on the market. Sign-up, install a small tracker on your desktop and automatically create your online software profile that you can share with friends and the world, also through widgets. Wakoopa keeps you updated about what your contacts are using, and sends you smart recommendations. Games, audio & video players, instant messengers or office tools: Wakoopa knows what's hot.
(Internet industry)
October 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)
53MILES (previously named M80) is my own personal holding company. The name comes from the rough distance between my birth village Sliedrecht and my current location Amsterdam.
(Internet industry)
August 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)
The Roomware Project is an open-source framework for interactive spaces. It allows developers of multiple origins to enhance any venue or event using technologies such as BlueTooth and RFID. "Roomware" is an application running in a defined space. For instance: linking people's photographs to the screens of a club, sharing musical tastes with the DJ, etc.
James Burke, Tijs Teulings and me founded the project in 2006. It is currently developing people filtered art startup NARB (http://narb.me), and I've staid on board as an advisor.
(Internet industry)
March 2005 — January 2008 (2 years 11 months)
BlueAce was the leading Dutch weblog on technology startups and Web 2.0. I founded the blog in 2005. We also organized the Dutch Web 2.0 Awards every year, where over 150 business and 50.000 voters participated in. It was acquired by The Next Web in January 2008, and integrated into their blog.
(Internet industry)
February 2006 — September 2006 (8 months)
Helped build and manage numerous projects like FilmTotaal, eKudos and OriginalSignal.
(Internet industry)
September 2003 — January 2006 (2 years 5 months)
Worked with clients such as Osram, The City of Dordrecht and Lips on their back- and frontend presentation.
Autodidacticism , Information Sciences, Economics
After finishing high-school I started on web development immediately. I never looked back.
Technology, entrepreneurship, web applications, digital culture, mobile apps, social software, open source, interface design
STIKK
Businessweeks Europe's Top Young Entrepreneur, 2007
The Next Web Awards Onstage Startup, 2008
Spinaward Best Mobile Concept, 2008
Sprout Top 25 Under 25 #1, 2008