Patrick de Laive

Yesterday, the first OpenCoffee in the new venue took place. around 20 people gathered in the Coffee Company at the doelenstraat 24.
It was a good meetup. I haven’t been to OpenCoffee in a while due to eDay, PICNIC, FOWA and Techcrunch40, but it was nice to be back.

Yesterday I went through the stats of Bowlr and discovered some funny and remarkable things.

if you go to google.nl what do you think is the most important event to sponsor in 2008? Well, according too Google it is EUFA EURO 2008 (I can imagine), but the second best event is Bowlr (of course ). If you search for the whole internet on “sponsoring 2008″ Bowlr is number 1.

Tony van Wezep (the bowl legend) and Ilse Knijn (yes the daughter of the famous bowling centre in Amsterdam are probably also surprised to see bowlr at the top of the results if they google their own name

I’m really looking forward to this web event. Next week we’re going to Knijn to throw some balls, feel the vibe and shoot some videos. 21 teams already signed up, so it promises to be a crowded and fun night with great people.

Bowling Beer and Bitterballs, sounds like the ultimate networking and teambuilding surrounding to me.

Yesterday Boris Arjen and I were invited to give a workshop on Guerilla Marketing during the Holland Innovation event.
There were about 70 people attending the workshop. I gave a 15 minute introduction on guerilla marketing in general and Boris and Arjen then elaborated on how we do our marketing for Fleck, The Next Web and Bowlr.
All together we had a lot of people enjoying the session, even though there were some organizational flaws (the room had 50 chairs, so 20 people had to stand. the sound was terrible, because you needed a headphone to hear me and they had only 40 headsets!!).

When I was 16 I played hockey in one of the most talented teams of all time and we made it to the National Championship final twice.
The first time was against Leiden, who had some very good players amongst them. We lost that game 3-2….
This weekend there will be a rematch between the two teams of 1996 as the highlight of the 90th anniversary of Leiden. This time their team is favorite, with some internationals among them..

I’m in shape (although I haven’t touched a hockeystick in 3 years) so be prepared