Arjen Schat

Current

Founder - CEO at Paydro
Co-Founder at Twittercounter.com
Owner at Bao Bao

Founder at Confnetwork.com
Managing Partner at Meganova
Founder at Streamedge

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Past

Initiator at The Next Web Conference 2009 April 15-16-17, Amsterdam
CTO at Fleck.com
Facilitator Kings of Code Conference at Meganova

Initiator at The Next Web Conference 2008 - 3 & 4 April
Initiator at The Next Web Conference 2007
Initiator, Jury Board Member at The Next Web Awards
Contractor, Developer, Architect at Linkit Consult
Consultant and Contractor at Artolive
Consultant and Contractor at Courage to connect
Consultant and Contractor at Universiteit Wageningen
Consultant and Contractor at Trendwatching.com
Consultant and Contractor at 1Site1
Consultant and Contractor at Henselutions
Consultant and Contractor at KPN Internet
Internet technical assistent at LEI
Managing assistant at Planet Internet

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Education

Haagse Hogeschool/TH Rijswijk
Hogeschool van Utrecht

Recommended

5 people have recommended Arjen

Connections

350 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Arjen Schat’s Summary

I love;
Working at my start-up with my team,
Taking the time to brainstorm to go from obvious/ good ideas to great ideas,
Developing web based information services,
The internet and the innovation it has on the connected society,
Keeping up with the daily online trends, hypes and successes.

Please feel free to contact or invite me, motivation appreciated.

Contact me if;
You are looking for online services for b2b events.

@: arjen@meganova.nl
M: +31 (0)6 8149 5287
Country: The Netherlands
Timezone: GMT +1

Arjen Schat’s Specialties:

Web services. Conceptualizing, Concept to GUI, Web2.0, Rich internet applications, Information architecture, Application development, Ajax, User behavior, Wire framing

Arjen Schat’s Experience

Founder - CEO

Paydro

(Events Services industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

Paydro is a secure highly time saving event sales management and fulfillment service.

Start ticket sales for your event within 10 minutes, directly accept Credit Card and iDeal payments.
Co-Founder

Twittercounter.com

(Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)

Twitter Followers Statistics
Owner

Bao Bao

(Internet industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Bao Bao BV is my personal holding.
Founder

Confnetwork.com

(Events Services industry)

August 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

Confnetwork is all about creating a better network experience, before, during and after b2b events.
Managing Partner

Meganova

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

April 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)

Meganova is a private incubator. Several projects have started in Meganova and grew into companies. Check Meganova Website for more information
Founder

Streamedge

(Information Technology and Services industry)

February 1999 — Present (11 years )
Initiator

The Next Web Conference 2009 April 15-16-17, Amsterdam

(Internet industry)

December 2008 — June 2009 (7 months)

Get ready for the fourth edition of The Next Web
The Next Web 2009 is the fourth edition of the conference that began in 2006. 900+ Internet professionals gather for 3 days to enjoy Amsterdam, the conference and to do business.

The Conference is organized by Boris, Arjen, Nicolas and Patrick. We're looking forward to meet you at The Next Web 2009 for inspiring days and a lot of fun as well.
CTO

Fleck.com

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

February 2006 — December 2008 (2 years 11 months)

CTO for the concept and development of the fleck.com service.

Fleck.com is an Internet annotation service. To put it simple; you can add post-its on any web page without installing any software. Share this page with a friend so she can see the web page through your eyes.

At the start of the project I focussed on concept development, the GUI and the back-end architecture. In the second part I developed the server side system that able to scale to at least 1.000.000 internet users.
Facilitator Kings of Code Conference

Meganova

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

January 2008 — June 2008 (6 months)

A gathering of web developers focused on open source. Frameworks, front-end & back-end
Initiator

The Next Web Conference 2008 - 3 & 4 April

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2007 — June 2008 (1 year )

The Next Web Conference is THE European Internet Conference with attendees from over 25 countries.
Initiator

The Next Web Conference 2007

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

November 2006 — July 2007 (9 months)

The Next Web Conference is THE European Internet Conference with attendees from over 16 countries.

On July 7 2006, there were 6 Showcases from successful european start-ups (Plazes -DE-, Hyves -NL-, Netvibes -FR-, eSnips -Israel-, WidSets -Finland-, and AllPeers - UK-) and Keynotes from: Michael Arrington (TechCrunch), Mark Tluszcz (Mangrove Capital Partners), Tim Roe (Nielsen Netratings), Paul Molenaar (Ilse Media), Jay Adelson (Digg), and Kevin Kelly!

The NEXT Next Web conference is on June 01, 2007. More information on http://www.thenextweb.org/
Initiator, Jury Board Member

The Next Web Awards

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

February 2007 — June 2007 (5 months)

The Next Web Awards
The worldwide award for future accomplishments!
The public awards for upcoming disruptive services, that will change the web.
The Next Web Awards show June 1st At The Next Web Conference Grand Party
http://awards.thenextweb.org/
Contractor, Developer, Architect

Linkit Consult

(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Environmental Services industry)

January 2007 — June 2007 (6 months)

Contractor, developer and architect for the concept and development of a new social service platform aiming to centralize people, contact and knowledge for environmental water professionals all over the world.
Consultant and Contractor

Artolive

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Arts and Crafts industry)

July 2006 — May 2007 (11 months)

Consultancy, maintenance & development of their online business administration applications and database driven website.
Artolive is the largest online art gallery in the Netherlands with more than 2500 connected artist and a collection of more than 30.000 original paintings and sculptures.
Consultant and Contractor

Courage to connect

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

April 2005 — May 2007 (2 years 2 months)

Main activities; Technical and functional consultancy, research. Courage to Connect is developing an online coaching tool that is specifically tailored to their unique coaching process.
Consultant and Contractor

Universiteit Wageningen

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

May 2003 — May 2007 (4 years 1 month)

Development of several online database driven sites and web applications, to facilitate long term field research
Consultant and Contractor

Trendwatching.com

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Market Research industry)

August 2006 — September 2006 (2 months)

I designed & developed the client administration application. The main focus of the tool is to streamline the administration of their client base and to facilitate primary contact moment after the sales process. The application is developed with open source web technology.
Consultant and Contractor

1Site1

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

November 2005 — August 2006 (10 months)

Development & maintenance for their central hosting & administration platform.
1site1 provides a low cost high volume solution for database driven websites, based on a single central application.
Consultant and Contractor

Henselutions

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2005 — March 2006 (4 months)

With a four man team we developed a fully ajax-ed online application to facilitate the primary processes for Room4U; an online hotel arrangement site. The application facilitates automatically processing of hotel reservations, central maintenance of several theme sites. Clients, hotels, arrangements and allotment administration.
The administration system is developed in CakePHP. This is the most popular PHP based implementation of the Ruby on Rails (ROR) MVC platform.
Consultant and Contractor

KPN Internet

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)

September 2004 — September 2005 (1 year 1 month)

Lead system design & development online project controlling application. With this project we translated the KPN telecom project controlling method “NPD” from a paper based method to an online application process. The solution offered to more than 150 employees central access to all project information and real time reporting facilities.
Internet technical assistent

LEI

(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Market Research industry)

January 2001 — March 2003 (2 years 3 months)
Managing assistant

Planet Internet

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

January 1999 — January 2001 (2 years 1 month)