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Roger Heijsters Missouri Valley College @rogerheijstersApril 10th 2013

@Roger Heijsters

Missouri Valley College - April 10th 2013

HI!


ImpressionHi!


27 years old

From The Netherlands

Live in Amsterdam

Lifehacker and 100% digital

Foodie, food enthusiast

Two brothers, one sister

Love travelling Kauffman Scholarship 2012

Hospitality Management BBA

MSc International Business

MEbitcrazy

First job at Mc Donald’s

Worked at 2-michelin star restaurant

Interned in Washington D.C.

Shoot evey meal

Lived in San Francisco

Had my own drive-in show / DJ


WHERE I STUDIED, THE CITY OF MAASTRICHT

AND PARTIED :)

Hotel Management School

Master International Business

Vrijthof Square


IN MY FAVORITE PLACE

Kitchen

Islands

Games

Tech conferences

Parties

Enthusiastic people

Dinner table

THE COMFORT ZONE

SkiingExperiencing new things

Spending time

with great people

Travelling

Hosting prople


MY FAMILYCRAZY AND FUNNYx

THIS GIVES ME ENERGY AND MOTIVATION


WHAT INSPIRES ME

BlogsHotels

LifehackingBusiness books

Man made marvelsTravelling

Productivity methodsHospitality

IslandsEnthusiastic people

MusicNice pictures & design

CruisesPassionate people

Technology & gadgetsTop cities

Wellness resortsSurprises

Creating things


WHERE I WORKTHE PRODUCTIVITY ZONE


What do we do?Tell!

Smartcheck


We help companies to profit from online opportunities.


Infrastructure

50

Strategy

25

Training

12

Optimization

13


WEB PRODUCTS

Websites

Mobile websites

Webshops

WEB SERVICES

SEO - Search Engine Optimization

SEA - Search Engine Advertising

Analysis

Webcare

ACTIVITIES

CAN WE BE OF ANY HELP?LET ME KNOW!

Strategic sessions

Writing communication plans

Organizing businesses’s communication

Building/managing marketingcampaigns

Smartcheck


StrategyTechnical

AmsterdamVenlo

Dusseldorf

TeamOps

Sales


Dropbox

LastPass

Pocket - Getpocket.com

Hootsuite

Captio

Pomodoro

Rescuetime

Tools I recommend


Profit from online opportunities


SELL Deliver breathtaking

web solutionsfor customers in all kind of industries.

GET SKILLED Getting better and better

by improving and diversifying our

incredible webskills.

DEVELOP & GROW Act on opportunities.

Develop and own concepts or participate in customer

concepts.

our magic

formula


Business historyYes!


Start

2000

Workshops, trainings and consultancy

2009 2010 2011

Communication and media consultancy

Real estate conference

Social trading plaform

Webhosting

Killed BraineoKilled all non-revenue activities

Pre-Kauffman cleaning

DJ on location

Heroicentertainment

2010

DEVELOPMENTS

2011

LEARN AND ADAPT

Step out of Vastgoed 3.0Step out of operations in Fray

Decisions made = HARD

2012

Kauffman Scholarship >

2013


LearningsFinally!


Learn trough teaching

What I’ve learned

Business modelling

Scrum Follow gut feeling

Time is scarce

Spend time on the what

A-players

Agile

You can run faster when you surround yourself with sprinters

VC

Enjoy

Personal and business advisory board

Knowledge, Skills, Execution

Be frugal (twilio)

Entrepreneurshustle

Fake it until you make it

Start with why (twilio)Internal vs external wealth

Ship it (twilio)

Lean startup

Manage expectations

Key people


Spend time on the what

Sell first, build second

Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

Build for scale

I

Hire A-players

Manage expectations

Write things down

Start with why

Be frugal

Be well connected

Build your personal advisory board

Internal vs. external wealth

Be pro-active

DO IT!

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

WE

Business Personal

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Fail fast and often to succeed sooner


My


KNOWLEDGEWhat you know

SKILLSWhat you’re good at

MOTIVATIONYour desire to do

yeah!

YOUR FOCUS POINTConcentrate on that


KNOWLEDGEWhat you know

SKILLSWhat you’re good at

MOTIVATIONYour desire to do

Build a newsreader

Set up google.com/alerts

Springwise.com

Entrepreneur.com

Inc.com

Network & meetings (meetup.com)

Surround yourself with sprinters

Set learning goals

Get a mentor

Try weekendprojects

Lynda.com

Udemy

Codecademy

Khanacademy

Coursera

WHAT IS GOING TO MAKE YOU SPECIALSOOOO!


Sean Covey

RECOMMENDED READINGSOOOO!

Ramit Sethi David Allen

Radar – Social distribution



Your future is here.

Take control and have fun!


Thank you!BYE!


@Roger Heijsters

Missouri Valley College - April 10th 2013

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