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July 29, 2007 at 2:55 am · Filed under INSEAD, Pic-a-day, Venture capital, entrepreneurship
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)
Here is an entrepreneur test, try it and go for it!
May 29, 2007 at 2:40 am · Filed under Pic-a-day
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…”
February 12, 2007 at 3:57 am · Filed under Daily unimportant sh*t, INSEAD, Pic-a-day
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!
November 13, 2006 at 1:25 am · Filed under Pic-a-day
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!
November 11, 2006 at 1:24 am · Filed under Pic-a-day
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…..
November 10, 2006 at 1:17 am · Filed under Pic-a-day
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
November 7, 2006 at 1:11 am · Filed under Pic-a-day
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
November 4, 2006 at 1:16 am · Filed under Pic-a-day
But don’t know how it works though. It doesnt seem to work as good as my previous Sony…. Sony rocks. No pics yet sorry
November 2, 2006 at 10:02 am · Filed under INSEAD, Pic-a-day
Well not entirely true, they do, but then they are broken and don’t deliver the goods, so to say. So pic-a-day has a small issue unless I recycle some old pics but ya’all would know right? So I’ll arrange a new cam, after all this is for the greater good of mankind: my people want to know what’s going on in the United States of Peter….
So Hold on … it’s coming 
In the meantime I still don’t have a place to stay.. it’s a bit harder then expected and to be honest: it’s not bad to be in the INSEAD residence: very comfy for almost no money, that’s probably why they will increase prices next week 
All rest is OK, Courses in P5 are really the best you can have: everything is interesting and the profs are second to none. Well, in search of a new second hand camera, I greet you from this warm place…..
November 1, 2006 at 9:55 am · Filed under Daily unimportant sh*t, INSEAD, Pic-a-day
Because some people complained that I didn’t publish any pics with costumes, I’ll make a sequal to the Halloween 2006 series…… just dont asked what I was doing (drinking / eating with chopsticks a mix of vodka and watermelon in a taxi to a karaoke bar where we were not thrown out despite of all the rumors)
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