Patrick de Laive

If you want to get up to speed on new Technology trends and more in specific on how Web2.0 is changing the rules of business or how to generate ideas and implement them, get in contact with Tessa Sterkenburg of The Next Speaker. She handles all my public appearances.

Check my page on The Next Speaker

Subject I’d love to talk about:

The Web / Web2.0

Idea generation and implementation

Financing a startup (The old way -VC- vs the new way -VC2.0-)

Marketing and communication stuff (no traditional marketing)


Business models
Send a mail to patrick at thenextweb dot com and use “Speaker” as subject.

Check out some of the interviews I’ve done:
Interview about Web2.0 Fleck, entrepreneurship and The Next Web
The two way internet
The Bright Bunch for Bright Magazine
TED magazine

I’ve been mentioned/covered/quoted in several papers and magazines (a.o. NRC, de Pers, AD, Amsterdam Weekly, eYe, Emerce, Sontagszeitung, Parool)

Speaking at

22 February, Web2.0 for PR firms. at PR bureau Eggink Van Manen
29 March, Web2.0, Hit or Hype? in Rotterdam
May 9th, Web.Start Conference Zagreb. How to build a successful startup
June 1st, Athens, Open Coffee. Startups and how to start
August, Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit, Summerschool Entrepreneurship. My mistakes and tips for startups