What is Startup Weekend?

Speakers

Mike Lee

Website: http://le.mu.rs
Topic: Mobile Startups
About: My name is Mike Lee. I am a software engineer and occasional author. I worked for Apple in Cupertino. I co-founded a company called Tapulous. I used to work for Delicious Monster Software in Seattle. We won an Apple Design Award. I drive a Scion tC Release Series 3.0. I love lemurs and airplanes. I collect single-malt scotch. I am Japanese. I am 34 years old. I am from Honolulu.

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Website: http://bomega.com
Topic: Entrepeneurship
About: 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 am one of the founders of The Next Web Conference, Incubator and blog. More about that on http://thenextweb.com.

Steven Blom

Website: http://www.yaiks.com
Topic: Entrepreneuring… Why (not) doing it?
About: I’m a parallel entrepreneur who enjoys working together with a great Team building and running companies. After many startups and projects, I’m currently focussing on the growth of WOVOX.com, TXXIapp.com and Sendsteps.com.

Bas Langelaar

Website: http://www.NextStage.nl
Topic: Elevator Pitch Training
About: I’m Bas Langelaar, serial entrepreneur, angel investor and financial consultant for IT/Tech companies. In 1998 I co-founded Vectrix in Amsterdam and made it market leader in the Dutch IT-sector for subsidy, bank loans and seed/venture capital consultancy. We work on a ‘no cure, no pay basis’. In 2004 I founded NextStage: a leading Dutch network for entrepreneurs and investors. Before that I worked as a consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers and as (project) manager for the Science Park Amsterdam incubator & seed capital fund. I studied business economics at the University of Amsterdam (NL) and the University of Colorado at Boulder (US).