It’s been a month since I’ve posted and a lot has happened. We’re still speaking crisis big time. I’m having good fun checking out CNBC’s and newspapers’ headlines. Judging them, we should be lucky to be alive. What I find most disconcerting is the lack of insight or intellectual analysis. We’re swinging from debating on [...]

I love it when someone from within a conservative environment is able to say this. It shows that indeed investing is apart from the mathematics, or maybe as much as included, a creative sport. These are true lessons when the whole outside world talks about recessions and black mondays.
“It’s, like, one business school guy, one [...]

Yesterday I visited Sprout’s Challengerday. It was a day filled with lectures and workshops about entrepreneurship. One of the most obvious but interesting things that was said is that companies should always be innovators. Why obvious? In an ever changing world, companies that stand still will get run over. They won’t be able to compete [...]

He’s writing a terrificly inspiring series on Career Planning. In case you don’t know who Marc Andreessen is, he is the man behind Netscape and Ning. If you haven’t seen it yet, head over to his first part: “The Pmarca Guide to Career Planning, part 1: Opportunity.”
“The world is an incredibly complex place and everything [...]

It was Krishna janmastami yesterday. This is Krishna’s birthday and is celebrated by Hindus all over the world. I traveled to friends where we had a nice program with some poetic reading, singing and a great dinner.
On the way home I turned on the radio for a little bit and overheard a commercial that got [...]

This week I visited two dentists. I never set out to visit two, but the first one prompted me. I just moved and had to look for a new dentist and so made an appointment to do the yearly checkup. In short, the first dentist showed me how not to run a business and the [...]

If you wonder why my site still looks funky, head over to http://www.ikvlieggoedkoper.nl. I’ve been working on this site for the past few days. I’ve had the domain for a few months now but didn’t do much with the site. Finally, I’m putting some content on there with tips on how all of you can [...]