Vidar Andersen

Vidar Andersen

CEO & Co-Founder

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  • 50931 Köln
  • Germany

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Professional experience

  • 2011 - present

    CEO & Co-Founder

    (The company name is only visible to registered members)

    Industry: Internet, solomo, mobile, cloud

  • Mar 2013 - present

    (3 months)

    EXIST Startup Coach & Advisor

    Vidar Andersen, http://vidarandersen.de

    Industry: Academia

  • Nov 2012 - present

    (7 months)

    Coach

    Startup Weekend, http://startupweekend.org

    Industry: Education, Startup, business, technology, entrepreneurship

  • Nov 2012 - present

    (7 months)

    Instructor

    Startup Weekend NEXT, http://swnext.co/

    Industry: Academia, startup, entrepreneur, lean startup, entrepreneurship, customer development, education, business,

  • 2012 - present

    Co-Founder

    Startup Weekend Cologne, http://cologne.startupweekend.org

    Industry: Events Services

  • 2012 - present

    Professional Speaker

    Vidar Andersen

    Industry: Education, entrepreneurship, business, startup, lean, customer development

  • 2011 - present

    Founder

    Hacker News Cologne

    Industry: Internet

  • Jun 2010 - present

    (3 years)

    Founder

    Social Media Lunch Cologne, http://socialmedialunch.org

    Industry: Online Media, Internet, Marketing & Advertising,

  • Feb 2010 - present

    (3 years, 4 months)

    Board Member, Board of Supervisors

    motionet AG, http://www.motionet.de/

    Industry: Internet, Web-based enterprise software.

  • 2001 - present

    Co-Founder

    Plone, http://plone.org

    Industry: Internet, Plone is among the top 2% of all open source projects worldwide, with 340 core developers and more than 300 solution providers in 57 countries. The project has been actively developed since 2001, is available in more than 40 languages, and has the best security track record of any major CMS. It is owned by the Plone Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, and is available for all major operating systems.

  • Jan 1997 - present

    (16 years, 5 months)

    Founding CEO

    blacktar.com, http://blacktar.com

    Industry: Internet, Online Media, Information Technology & Services, Consulting,

  • Mar 2010 - Jul 2010

    (5 months)

    Senior Consultant

    people interactive GmbH, http://www.people-interactive.de/

    Industry: Internet

  • Aug 2005 - Feb 2010

    (4 years, 7 months)

    Head of Digital

    CLAUSEN+REITSMA GmbH, http://www.clausen-reitsma.de

    Industry: Marketing & Advertising, IT, Media Production, Consulting

  • Aug 2002 - May 2005

    (2 years, 10 months)

    Art Director / Information Architect

    Oberon IT AS

    Industry: Information Technology & Services

  • Feb 2002 - Jul 2002

    (6 months)

    Sales Consultant

    Findexa

    Industry: Marketing & Advertising

  • Sep 1997 - Jan 2001

    (3 years, 5 months)

    User Experience Designer / Information Architect

    Media Farm AS, http://www.mediafarm.no

    Industry: Media Production

  • Employment status
    Entrepreneur

Educational background

  • 2012 - 2012
    Deusto Business School

    Entrepreneurship

    Awarded a Global Entrepreneurship Accelerator Program (GEAP) scholarship.

  • 1996 - 1996
    Agder University

    Philosopy

    Logic, didactics.

  • 1994 - 1996
    Lillehammer University College

    Science of Film

    Realism, Modernism and Post-Modernism.

  • Languages
    German (Fluent), English (First language), French (Basic knowledge), Swedish (Good knowledge), Norwegian (First language), Danish (Good knowledge)

About me

Have we connected on LinkedIn yet? http://goo.gl/EFfqg

I'm Vidar and I don't talk about myself in the third person.

I'm an entrepreneur, founder of startups, public speaker, consultant and teacher. I consult F500 enterprises on Corporate Entrepreneurship and speak at events and teach at universities on the topic of Startup Entrepreneurship. I co-founded the content management system Plone used by Yale University, NASA JPL, The FBI, The CIA and more in the past. I believe everybody should have the chance to be well-connected so I founded http://getGauss.com. Let's have a conversation. Call me on the phone +49 151 40 133 149, skype me at 'blacktar', shoot me an email at vidar@getGauss.com or tweet @blacktar - I do reply.
 

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