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Launching customer

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

While I was in London Friday and Saturday for a number of Qelp business meetings, I selected these days in particular to be able to join Andrew Snoad and Tony Bicknell in celebrating the 10th anniversary of their firm Decision Tree Consulting (DTC). They invited all those who worked with DTC in the first 2 […]

New episode

Thursday, September 1st, 2005

Five years after founding ThreeFive Photonics, it’s time to move on. It has been a roller coaster of ups and downs, but first and foremost a tremendously valuable experience in entrepreneurship. So much that I think I got addicted to it. Most of 2005 I have been working part time, to build a new company in parallel, Qelp […]

Into the night

Saturday, July 23rd, 2005

Labour unions and politicians are known for negotiating into the night. If you don’t do a deal in the middle of the night or even early morning, it can’t be a deal you fought for: "you left money on the table". We closed a deal today at 1.30 am and it feels good after a […]

Part-time (sort of)

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

Since a couple of months I have been working only part-time for ThreeFive Photonics, to be able to establish a new mobile venture. Yet, this week it became clear that I will have to increase my involvement with ThreeFive unexpectedly, at least until September 1. More about that later, when the news is "fit to […]