the entrepreneurial engineer

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The Entrepreneurial Engineer

Bart Van Loon

22nd April 2010

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Who am I?

Who am I?

Bart Van Loon

2005: finished studies in ComputerScience, Mathematics, ArtificialIntelligence in Leuven

2006: Co-founded Villa Vespa

2007: Co-founded Zeropoint.IT

2009: Started The DataTank

(Picture by Pitslamp.be)

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Who am I?

Villa Vespa

Carefree Oldtimers3 / 16

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Who am I?

Zeropoint.IT

Qualitative HR without borders4 / 16

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Who am I?

The DataTank

Unlocking databases for anopen society

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Am I fit for it?

An entrepreneur is made, notborn. (But of course there areentrepreneurial families.)

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Typical Properties

resilient

stubborn

reckless

gambling

risk taking

. . .

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Typical Properties

It has nothing to do with education.(quite the opposite)

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#sethsaid

“The mission: to teach you thatyou’re average. That compliant workis the best way to a reliable living.That creating average stuff foraverage people, again and again, is asafe and easy way to get what youwant. [. . . ] When exactly were webrainwashed into believing that thebest way to earn a living is to have ajob?” — Seth Godin

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Supporting Organisations

SO Kwadraat

Free help with business concept, business plan, financial plan,gathering capital, legal stuff, . . .

info@sokwadraat.be

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Supporting Organisations

Plenty of fun competitions

http://www.bizidee.be/

http://www.start-academy.

be/

http://www.enterprize.be/

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Supporting Organisations

Plenty of support

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Who are you?

Entrepreneurship is a full-contact sport

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Who are you?

Success is not guaranteed

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Who are you?

But do you want to work, work, work. . .

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Who are you?

. . . for someone else?

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Let’s Connect!

Contact me

Bart Van Loon

bart@zeropoint.it(+32) 472/94.14.34

http://bbbart.eu/blogtwitter: @b b b a r t

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