Sacha Vekeman is a 35-year-old technology entrepreneur from Belgium who is running the 2010 London Marathon to raise €50,000 or more to invest in a web startup focused on developing countries. He has experience founding startups and working in sponsorship for sports organizations. By running the marathon and investing the funds raised, he aims to create leverage for entrepreneurship, business ethics, sports, and social responsibility.
This document discusses Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) provided by Core DataCloud. It summarizes that Core DataCloud has been providing backup hosting since 1998 and has specialized in DRaaS since 2006 for over 70 UK customers. It invests in EMC, VMware, Assigra, and Storagecraft technologies and has invested £2.5 million in its infrastructure. The document also outlines Core DataCloud's collaboration with Veeam and Softcat to provide an end-to-end DRaaS solution generating revenue from licensing fees, revenue sharing, and services.
This document discusses start-up financing options. It explains that companies should prioritize selling their product or service to customers rather than selling shares. Various stages of financing are outlined, from selling an idea to friends and family to securing venture capital investment. The agenda for an event on this topic introduces speakers from different areas of financing such as entrepreneurship, banking, angel investing, government support, and venture capital. Contact information is provided for the event host.
Mobiya is a software company that focuses on monetizing classified media through mobile interactions and digital services. It started in 2006 and has patented technology that it uses to generate revenue from mobile authentication, alerts, and adverts in markets like the UK, India, and Africa. Mobiya has evolved its platform from print classifieds with mobile interaction to online classifieds with mobile authentication to mobile classifieds with mobile-only experiences that provide subscription alerts. It has also shifted its monetization strategy from online authentication in developed markets to alerts and adverts in emerging markets with much higher growth potential. The conclusion recommends that publishers invest in technology companies rather than publications, automate processes, and integrate rather than dominate distribution to adapt to
Sacha Vekeman is a 35-year-old technology entrepreneur from Belgium who is running the 2010 London Marathon to raise €50,000 or more to invest in a web startup focused on developing countries. He has experience founding startups and working in sponsorship for sports organizations. By running the marathon and investing the funds raised, he aims to create leverage for entrepreneurship, business ethics, sports, and social responsibility.
This document discusses Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) provided by Core DataCloud. It summarizes that Core DataCloud has been providing backup hosting since 1998 and has specialized in DRaaS since 2006 for over 70 UK customers. It invests in EMC, VMware, Assigra, and Storagecraft technologies and has invested £2.5 million in its infrastructure. The document also outlines Core DataCloud's collaboration with Veeam and Softcat to provide an end-to-end DRaaS solution generating revenue from licensing fees, revenue sharing, and services.
This document discusses start-up financing options. It explains that companies should prioritize selling their product or service to customers rather than selling shares. Various stages of financing are outlined, from selling an idea to friends and family to securing venture capital investment. The agenda for an event on this topic introduces speakers from different areas of financing such as entrepreneurship, banking, angel investing, government support, and venture capital. Contact information is provided for the event host.
Mobiya is a software company that focuses on monetizing classified media through mobile interactions and digital services. It started in 2006 and has patented technology that it uses to generate revenue from mobile authentication, alerts, and adverts in markets like the UK, India, and Africa. Mobiya has evolved its platform from print classifieds with mobile interaction to online classifieds with mobile authentication to mobile classifieds with mobile-only experiences that provide subscription alerts. It has also shifted its monetization strategy from online authentication in developed markets to alerts and adverts in emerging markets with much higher growth potential. The conclusion recommends that publishers invest in technology companies rather than publications, automate processes, and integrate rather than dominate distribution to adapt to
This document discusses opportunities for seed investors during the COVID-19 pandemic. It notes that valuations have been disrupted, allowing investors to get better deals and help businesses integrate, distribute their products more effectively, and validate their ideas. The pandemic has created a new normal where remote work will continue, certain industries need automating, and there are opportunities in healthcare, green technology, and more. Seed investors can provide experience, knowledge, and partnerships to help entrepreneurs mature their businesses and adapt to this changing environment.
2017 Strategic Technology and Marketing Trends - Sacha Vekeman247 Invest
This document discusses marketing and technology trends from a breakfast presentation given by Sacha Vekeman. It outlines 5 strategic technology trends, including artificial intelligence, intelligent apps, intelligent things, edge computing, and blockchain. It also outlines 5 strategic marketing trends, such as conversational systems, digital platforms, virtual/augmented reality, social/local search, and mobile-first strategies. The rest of the document provides advice and steps for implementing a mobile-first strategy, including recognizing maturity levels, ensuring websites are adaptive, rethinking payment options, being open for mobile business, and considering native apps.
This document outlines Sacha Vekeman's 2015 sales kickoff presentation. The presentation covered:
1. Trends from 1995 to the present and projections to 2035 regarding technology adoption and the growth of internet users and public cloud spending.
2. Expectations for emerging technologies like the internet of things, wearable devices, and connected cars to drive further connectivity between people, infrastructure, and data.
3. The opportunities and realities of big data and IoT, including challenges around integration, business models, and the need for ongoing services.
4. Examples of companies disrupting industries and working at the boundaries of markets to achieve success, and how Interoute can support entrepreneurs in a similar vein
24/7 INVEST is a venture capital and consulting firm that provides strategic support to startup companies. It has invested in and helped grow several technology companies since 2010. The firm's approach involves helping companies create sustainable business models, develop value propositions, and generate sales and funding. 24/7 INVEST also assists with business development, marketing, and investor relations. The firm focuses on consumer and enterprise services, industry solutions, and technology infrastructure and has a network of partners in entrepreneurship, technology, and venture capital.
1. 1cloud.be is proposing a partnership where existing hosting providers can become co-owners and gain control over their cloud hosting offerings through joint roadmap ownership and decision making.
2. As partners, they would have full control over the cloud hosting platform, access to comprehensive control panels and services, and shorter support cycles due to specialists.
3. The benefits of joining include healthy reselling margins, profit participation, long term shareholder value, and flexibility and control over service delivery.
Smart Style Office for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure247 Invest
Smart Style Office is a virtual desktop infrastructure solution that allows IT administrators to remotely manage desktops running as virtual machines. It offers advantages like simplified management, improved security and data protection, flexibility for users to access desktops from any device, and support for an increasingly mobile workforce. Resellers can offer Smart Style Office to help customers with tasks like desktop migration, securing devices and data, and providing hosted desktops from centralized data centers. The solution involves virtualization software, management tools, backup agents, and thin clients to access virtual desktop environments.
White Paper: Smart Style Office as Virtual Deskopt Infrastructure for Desktop...247 Invest
This 8-page document discusses desktop virtualization using Smart Style Office as a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). It defines key concepts like desktop virtualization, VDI, and thin clients. It outlines advantages like lower costs, improved manageability and security. Use cases include remote administration, hosted desktops, desktop migration, and supporting a changing workforce. It then describes the Smart Style Office architecture and components and provides recommendations for configuration.
Post Innovation Dilemma. What first: sales or marketing?247 Invest
The document discusses the importance of understanding your target customers, value proposition, and why people buy your product before focusing on sales. It notes that early-stage companies need to demonstrate a market through marketing, while investors primarily care about sales. Overall, the document argues that having a strong marketing strategy to explain your value proposition is more important than immediately prioritizing sales.
Presentation I've prepared for the launch of Aserver's latest product, SmartStyle Office (SSO).
SSO is an All-in-One Virtualisation platform solution, or an appliance, to create, manage and monitor virtual servers and desktops.
Mobila is a Belgium based value-added provider of mobile enterprise applications, services and solutions. Mobila works with a uniquely qualified portfolio of mobile application vendors and solution partners to offer a broad range of mobility operated services and solutions to businesses, government and public administration. Mobila is headquartered in Leuven and has 10 employees with extensive technical and application expertise to support its partners from design to deployment.
Opensource (GPLv2 licentie) tool.
Overzicht van hardware op het netwerk.
Uitrollen van software, scripts, bestanden.
Overzicht geinstalleerde software.
This document discusses opportunities for seed investors during the COVID-19 pandemic. It notes that valuations have been disrupted, allowing investors to get better deals and help businesses integrate, distribute their products more effectively, and validate their ideas. The pandemic has created a new normal where remote work will continue, certain industries need automating, and there are opportunities in healthcare, green technology, and more. Seed investors can provide experience, knowledge, and partnerships to help entrepreneurs mature their businesses and adapt to this changing environment.
2017 Strategic Technology and Marketing Trends - Sacha Vekeman247 Invest
This document discusses marketing and technology trends from a breakfast presentation given by Sacha Vekeman. It outlines 5 strategic technology trends, including artificial intelligence, intelligent apps, intelligent things, edge computing, and blockchain. It also outlines 5 strategic marketing trends, such as conversational systems, digital platforms, virtual/augmented reality, social/local search, and mobile-first strategies. The rest of the document provides advice and steps for implementing a mobile-first strategy, including recognizing maturity levels, ensuring websites are adaptive, rethinking payment options, being open for mobile business, and considering native apps.
This document outlines Sacha Vekeman's 2015 sales kickoff presentation. The presentation covered:
1. Trends from 1995 to the present and projections to 2035 regarding technology adoption and the growth of internet users and public cloud spending.
2. Expectations for emerging technologies like the internet of things, wearable devices, and connected cars to drive further connectivity between people, infrastructure, and data.
3. The opportunities and realities of big data and IoT, including challenges around integration, business models, and the need for ongoing services.
4. Examples of companies disrupting industries and working at the boundaries of markets to achieve success, and how Interoute can support entrepreneurs in a similar vein
24/7 INVEST is a venture capital and consulting firm that provides strategic support to startup companies. It has invested in and helped grow several technology companies since 2010. The firm's approach involves helping companies create sustainable business models, develop value propositions, and generate sales and funding. 24/7 INVEST also assists with business development, marketing, and investor relations. The firm focuses on consumer and enterprise services, industry solutions, and technology infrastructure and has a network of partners in entrepreneurship, technology, and venture capital.
1. 1cloud.be is proposing a partnership where existing hosting providers can become co-owners and gain control over their cloud hosting offerings through joint roadmap ownership and decision making.
2. As partners, they would have full control over the cloud hosting platform, access to comprehensive control panels and services, and shorter support cycles due to specialists.
3. The benefits of joining include healthy reselling margins, profit participation, long term shareholder value, and flexibility and control over service delivery.
Smart Style Office for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure247 Invest
Smart Style Office is a virtual desktop infrastructure solution that allows IT administrators to remotely manage desktops running as virtual machines. It offers advantages like simplified management, improved security and data protection, flexibility for users to access desktops from any device, and support for an increasingly mobile workforce. Resellers can offer Smart Style Office to help customers with tasks like desktop migration, securing devices and data, and providing hosted desktops from centralized data centers. The solution involves virtualization software, management tools, backup agents, and thin clients to access virtual desktop environments.
White Paper: Smart Style Office as Virtual Deskopt Infrastructure for Desktop...247 Invest
This 8-page document discusses desktop virtualization using Smart Style Office as a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). It defines key concepts like desktop virtualization, VDI, and thin clients. It outlines advantages like lower costs, improved manageability and security. Use cases include remote administration, hosted desktops, desktop migration, and supporting a changing workforce. It then describes the Smart Style Office architecture and components and provides recommendations for configuration.
Post Innovation Dilemma. What first: sales or marketing?247 Invest
The document discusses the importance of understanding your target customers, value proposition, and why people buy your product before focusing on sales. It notes that early-stage companies need to demonstrate a market through marketing, while investors primarily care about sales. Overall, the document argues that having a strong marketing strategy to explain your value proposition is more important than immediately prioritizing sales.
Presentation I've prepared for the launch of Aserver's latest product, SmartStyle Office (SSO).
SSO is an All-in-One Virtualisation platform solution, or an appliance, to create, manage and monitor virtual servers and desktops.
Mobila is a Belgium based value-added provider of mobile enterprise applications, services and solutions. Mobila works with a uniquely qualified portfolio of mobile application vendors and solution partners to offer a broad range of mobility operated services and solutions to businesses, government and public administration. Mobila is headquartered in Leuven and has 10 employees with extensive technical and application expertise to support its partners from design to deployment.
Opensource (GPLv2 licentie) tool.
Overzicht van hardware op het netwerk.
Uitrollen van software, scripts, bestanden.
Overzicht geinstalleerde software.
2. A. Klasse
Klasse van de reptielen
Koudbloedig = temperatuur zee
Gewervelde dieren
2 families
Landschildpadden
Zeeschildpadden
7 soorten
Waarvan 6 in gevaar!
Grootste is lederschildpad
4. C. Aanpassing omgeving
Ontstaan 120 miljoen jaar geleden
Ouder dan dinos
Van land naar zee aangepast
Grote flippers
Lang adem inhouden
Geen kieuwen
Bescherming
Hard schild
Snelle zwemmers
6. E. Voortplanting
Liefde is: in de nek bijten
Legsel : eitjes
Eitjes worden in het zand op het strand gelegd
30 tot 50 cm diep
50 tot 150 eitjes
Uitkomen eitjes
Omiddellijk naar de zee
Kleintjes worden gepikt
Vogels en grote vissen
Natuurbeschermers
8. G. Weetjes
1000meter diep duiken
1500km reizen
Bedreiging van de mens
Vervuiling: rommel en plastiek
Jagen: vlees en vet
9. Grote zeeschildpadden quiz
Welke soort zeeschildpad is echt?
A. Spaghettischildpad
B. Snoepschildpad
C. Soepschildpad
Hoe oud kan een zeeschildpad worden?
A. 50 jaar oud
B. 150 jaar oud
C. Meer dan 300 jaar oud
10. Grote zeeschildpadden quiz
Welke soort zeeschildpad is echt?
A. Spaghettischildpad
B. Snoepschildpad
C. Soepschildpad
Hoe oud kan een zeeschildpad worden?
A. 50 jaar oud
B. 150 jaar oud
C. Meer dan 300 jaar oud
11. Grote zeeschildpadden quiz
Welke soort zeeschildpad is echt?
A. Spaghettischildpad
B. Snoepschildpad
C. Soepschildpad
Hoe oud kan een zeeschildpad worden?
A. 50 jaar oud
B. 150 jaar oud
C. Meer dan 300 jaar oud