The Mediapark congress presented us with a great stage to put forward the benefits of our service for the Dutch Media industry. Attendees came from all disciplines of the industry; film, internet, print, telecom, broadcasting, government, games. The congress gave the audience insight into the challenges that lie ahead.
Arnoud started of with grabbing the attention of the audience by presenting a well known challenge in creating and publishing print advertisements. You want to place an advertisement in tomorrows newspaper. How can do I this in a fast, simple and affordable way?
The start of the presentation was challinging due to a mix up in the order of the slides. Arnoud didn’t loose focus and began with a clear cut introduction and finishing off with a straight to the point conclusion. His pitch addressed the benefits, challenges and solutions for creating and publishing print. The jury was impressed and announced Marvia as most promising of all Start-ups.
Questions of the jury envoked a sneak peak into our future plans of bringing online user generated content to print.
We are proud to announce Marvia signed a contract with the Telegraaf Media groep (TMg), one of the largest Dutch publishers.
TMg will be using Marvia as a ’self service’ platform for creating print advertisements. Our fully web-based publishing platform allows their advertisers to create any advertisement from a generic template or a template based on their company brand guide. The documents are print-ready and can directly be placed in tomorrows newspaper. Advertisers are now able to instantly create and place their print advertisements.
We’re proud to announce that we have been selected as one of the 5 finalists for this year’s edition of the Mediapark Jaarcongres Startup Pitch. Together with four fellow startups we’ll present our five-minute pitch in front of full audience and a jury made up of leading media entrepreneurs: Willem Sijfhoff (Financieel Dagblad, BNR), Guido van Nispen (Veronica), Floris van Alkemade (Solid Ventures) and Martijn Hamann (Van den Ende Deitmers).
All the movers & shakers from the Dutch media industry will be attending the congress on the 23rd of June in Hilversum. There is wide diversity of media industries represented. This pitch will give us a good platform for a great new release of our webapplication and some BIG announcements!
Enough food for thought! Central questions the congres will cover are:
What kind of media industry will the Netherlands have? What will the Dutch media industry look like in 2015? What role will the dutch media industry play internationally?
Come and meet us at the congress or see the ‘Marvia show’ at 14.00 on the 23rd of June!
Last week we participated at Price-Babson SEE-25 in Boston. As the recognized leader in entrepreneurship education, Babson College seeks to raise the quality, the content and the process of teaching entrepreneurship through their Symposia for Entrepreneurship Educators’ (SEE) programs. Their flagship program, Price-Babson SEE, is held every spring on their campus. The program is designed to build an international cadre of educators who understand the importance of combining entrepreneurship theory and practice in teaching. This is vital to the program and why they require teams – one academic, one entrepreneur – to attend a symposium.
Marvia was invited by the University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship to join them and fill the entrepreneurial spots in the team. It was an incredible experience with inspiring entrepreneurs, professors, business leaders, venture capitalists and other gurus from around the world, e.g. Len Schlesinger, Stephen Spinelli, Heidi Neck and many more..
Today we announce an exiting new feature for those who upload a lot of images to their print designs. It’s called the Image-Zoomr and you can use it right away in most of your templates. Just click any photo to resize and move it to fit your design.
The technical infrastructure of the Marvia platform is partly build on Amazon Webservices (AWS S3 & EC2). This technology is also known as ‘Cloud Computing’. The usage of this infrastructure makes the Marvia platform highly scalable and reliable. Marvia featured in EMERCE magazine, read the full article.
“One of the founders of getmarvia.com, a website that lets customers easily create, manage and distribute print documents online. Marvia eliminates the link of designstudio’s and ad agencies and lets companies create visual material quick and easy.”
The Dutch magazine Marketing Tribune tips Arnoud Haverlag as a key figure to change the design world with our service Marvia. The colomn of Polle de Maagt lists a Top 3 of key figures who are bound to have their influence on the design world.
On monday we presented our newest feature; PrintVis integration right from within your Marvia account at the annual partner meeting 2009 in Milan, Italy. PrintVis, powered by Rainbow Solutions, is a full service ERP/MIS solution for printers, based on Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
Marvia was present at the Grafische Vakbeurs (annual print industry event) in the Netherlands. In december of 2008 we set up a partnership with Rainbow solutions, one of the leading MIS/ERP providers in the professional print industry. Their MIS/ERP system is called PrintVis and is certified for JDF & Microsoft Dynamics NAV. In january we intergrated both systems and we released a fully integrated version of Marvia at the event last week!
After our interview in the Dutch newspaper FD, Marvia is featured on the cover of the Dutch graphic magazine: ‘het Grafisch Weekblad‘. This magazine is spread throughout the Dutch graphic industry, such as print companies, design agencies and more on a weekly basis.
Are you curious about Cloud Computing? Do you want to know more about Amazon Web Services, such as S3, EC2 and CloudFront?
Well, come and meet us for the first 2009 AWS Meetup in Amsterdam, organized with the help of HellomyNameIsE, Soocial. Check out STIKK.nl for more information on innovative entrepreneurs in Amsterdam.
Simone Brunozzi, Amazon Web Services Technology Evangelist for Europe, will present Amazon Web Services and answer to your questions.
On Thursday the 1st of January I was invited to participate on a panel to talk about the evolution of the internet on the Radio 1 program “Dit is de dag” (ENG: This is the day”). Thijs van den Brink, known from the daily television program “Netwerk”, hosted the radio interview.
It was cool to talk about the opportunities that the internet creates for entrepreneurs and enterprises. With a variety of panel members it was clear that because of generation differences the vision about the good or the bad of the internet evolution can be very different.
Marvia is proud to announce that we have joined the ‘Amsterdam Creative Crossings (ACC)’ network. ACC is a entrepreneurial network for young Dutch creative companies based in Amsterdam. ACC members are high-end creative professionals with a balanced corporate structure.
Marvia is proud to announce the new Amsterdam startup federation: STIKK. We just went live with our brand new website. Be sure to check out the other initial STIKK members HellomynameisE, Wakoopa and Soocial.
The Marvia presentation me and Arnoud Haverlag gave at Print in Beeld & Geluid Event hosted by CMBO. We talked about the Future of Print. On how Web-2-Print services can provide printers and advertising agencies with a way to improve their customer relationship. Providing clients with an easier and cost efficient way to creating print-ready documents on demand.
Op de voorpagina van de Adformatie prijkt de titel ‘Bureaus moeten meer op kosten gaan letten’ (4 december 2008). De naderende recessie lijkt nu ook zijn tol te gaan eisen binnen de marketingcommunicatiebranche. Het woord ‘crisis’ verscheen in augustus voor het eerst op de voorpagina. De Adformatie heeft hierover een enquête laten uitvoeren door Synovate onder zo een 800 bureaus en opdrachtgevers. Het gehele onderzoek is op de site van Adformatie te downloaden. Erg sterk en goed onderbouwd.
In het artikel worden directeuren van verschillende bureaus aan het woord gelaten. Hierin komt naar voren dat bureaus meer aandacht moeten besteden aan aspecten als ‘geintegreerd denken’, ’strategisch advies’ en ‘creativiteit’. Tevens wordt verwacht dat een groeiend aantal opdrachtgevers meer taken in eigen huis zullen gaan uitvoeren.
Deze ontwikkeling sluit exact aan op de boodschap en mogelijkheden die Marvia biedt. De creatieve ontwikkeling van een campagne wordt door het bureau gedaan en door het gebruik van Marvia kan de opdrachtgever vervolgens zelf het onderhoud aan zijn campagne verzorgen. In samenwerking met het bureau worden de materialen als template in Marvia geplaatst. Vervolgens kan de opdrachtgever in eigen huis zijn communicatie materialen opmaken met behoud van huisstijl en zonder tussenkomst van het bureau. ‘Savings & Opportunities!’
I was interviewed by the lovely Viktoria after my keynote at the Amazon Web Services Event in Amsterdam. Read her full blog post on the TiburonTV website.
We attended the Amazon Web Services “Start-Up Tour” in Amsterdam last Thursday. I gave a 10-minute keynote presentation with slides, then a 10-minute Q&A with the audience on how Marvia uses AWS S3 for storage. Using AWS, we can get a real infrastructure setup without having to hire an operations team, go through capacity planning, purchase equipment, rent a rack in a colo, deal with power, bandwidth, security, etc.
This weekend the Marvians officially move to the heart of Amsterdam, Planciusstraat 1hs at Prinseneiland. Our new HQ has of two floors. One we will use for office space and one as a boardroom/presentation facility/hang-out.
We will be leaving our old HQ at the Binderij in Almere after 2,5 years, because we thought it was time for a new inspirational location with growth opportunities. We say goodbye to our friends from Hetgasbedrijf, Premas and Sprintmedia, with who we shared our office building.
You will all be invited to the official “Office Warming” next month. Friends of the Marvians will receive a email with more details next week.
Hope to see you in Amsterdam and drink a beer or do business.
Last week was awesome! With the Marvians we’ve visited the Future of Web Apps in London, hosted by Ryan Carson(ified). Together with our friends from hellomynameise we stayed in the beautiful Custom House Hotel, one minute away from Excel.
Arriving on Tuesday we had some time to settle in downtown London. After two nights of party with fellow startups and Amazon VP & CTO Werner Vogels, FOWA started at the Excel expo facilities with a two day conference program, including live Diggnation and special interview with Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and Founder of Facebook.
Not only did we see Stephan Fountain present an awsome rockstar keynote, including a slide with some dutch startups (like E and Marvia), but also internet goeroes and inspiring people like Kevin Rose (Digg), Julie Meyer (Ariadne Capital), Bret Taylor (Friendfeed), Ben Huh (ICanHasCheezburger) and many more spoke about the Future Of Web Apps.
As a startup we fight to survive and try to build a respectful business. Carefully use your budget is one way to survive, especially in these times. Events like PICNIC can be very interesting for startups. Not only is it a good place to meet with investors, VC’s and customers, but it is also a way to get inspired by the powerful media people in the world. But we cannot afford tickets that cost €1,200.00,-.
The organization didn’t saw any reason to help startups to attend to their event. Even with 1,5 million euro government support (and a kick ass office at the Keizersgracht) they refused every plan to allow startups at PICNIC.
So, what did we do? We Jailbroke PICNIC. And the funny thing is, the ‘real’ attendees loved it! Lunch at PICNIC cost a fortune and wasn’t good at all! With a group of startups we offered them free beer and lunch. And they love us also because we are very cool of course!
Last Thuesday Marvia and E hosted the AWS pre-PICNIC event. Over 70 people, mostly dutch startups, webbloggers, developers, investors, journalist and more were personally invited and attended our event. Simone Brunozzi, evangelist from Amazon Web Services, spoke about their services such as S3 and EC2.
As a host, we shared our experience with the attendees on the usage of AWS. But for E it also was a special event. They launched their private Beta and gave out the first invites for Hellomynameise. After just a week they already had 1500+ invite requests, because of some serious buzzing on the internet. Well done, guys!
We are ready for the next event; AWS Startup Tour in Amsterdam on the 6th of November. Be there!
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