I must say, I’m proud….very proud.
Since a bit more then 4 months I’m working my but of for one of the greatest startups in this new era in the web and now we have launched fully and completely: Welcome Glubble to the world. Glubble redefines several categories and therefor creates a new pie on the web: classic INSEAD case stuff and very very exiting to be involved in! Try it and comment!
Walking around in the world of internet entrepreneurship you’ll begin to see things in the current web world that look like 1999/2000 (aburd valuation of some firms and everybody runnig after the same deals).
The only big difference is that people who are now in this space have:
And that means that we entrepreneurs as the VC’s are more careful and scrutinized, and that will mean that the base will be more solid, hence no bubble… I like to believe that. Anyway, some people take doomthinking to a more creative level: Check this: this is hilarious:
At INSEAD we know that about 30% of the INSEAD grads will end up in entrepreneurship (a few years after they earned back their study loan at McKinsey or an Investment bank) while some claim that only 10% of the population have the character traits of an entrepreneur. Often in class therefor we asked ourselves: “Are you a born entrepreneur or can you become one?” Personally I think that entrepreneurship in the true sense asks for a very skillful manager who is familiar with HR, finance, management, product development, marketing and the works but the bottom line is IMHO: do you have enough risk loving genes in your body? Can you put all you eggs in one basket and start running knowing that everybody around you will declare you insane? The skill set you need but the mentality you just cannot learn: Entrepreneurial minds are born (nature) and the most successful ones will be very skilled as well (nurture)
Every where in Holland you will read in manuals or on signs “U kunt…” and then it explains what you can or cannot do there. And then you get a girlfriend which is South African and native English and she starts laughing all the time and telling me the Dutch are rude…
Maybe for the sake of International and interracial relationships we should write “U mag…”
I know I know. I promised that he should work on it but he!, just no time.
I just returned from my trip to Amsterdam and Dublin: Great fun. Dublin is the town I’m going to live in for the next few months/years, who would have thought that? Singapore was my dream but every dream ends somehow and this one will end in a thunder storm in Dublin! But the positives: I can do some random Kitesurfing!
But OK, I’ll try to post a few things regarding the things I did the last 2 months. Next to graduating from INSEAD….
If you want to know what I’m doing now: I ‘m developing a survey for INSEAD to do some research about growth ventures… uhm no, I’m not becoming an academic 
here is the survey in case you have nothing to do: INSEAD Entrepreneurship Survey
More news will follow soon, cheers,
Peter
Well body surfing is cool and it depends which wave you get how cool it is after you’ve done it. This wave was OK, the next one however wanted to let me feel what it’s like to be in a tumbledryer or something!
Well well, that was a scary night in Bali. At least that is what they told me…. Well time to get some relaxation… it is even relaxed for you finances: 8 euro for an hour long massage … maybe we can get a discount when we hire them more than 8 hours…..
So we could go to Bali, allmost for free. Amazing. Bali is one of the places on earth I really really like. It’s beautiful, the people are nice and time enough to be sentimental about people you miss
Well a lot of stuff, mainly Asian fare like Thai, Japanese and such. I just love Japanese and espacially the industrial feeling of eating Japanese
