Welcome
This is the blog of Kristof Van Tomme, biotech/Drupal entrepreneur. I use this blog to post reference materials for talks I give and to announce the networking events I'm involved in. Other things that you will find here are some of my random thoughts on quite a couple of things (see tagcloud on the right).
In this blog I want to share useful tips on how you can bootstrap yourself into entrepreneurship. In other words how you can become self-employed and get your company growing without burning to much cash. I will sometimes dig into intercultural communication issues and I will share some of the tricks I’m using to increase my productivity, cause as an entrepreneur you’ll never have enough time.
I was born in Eeklo, Belgium into what you would call an entrepreneurial family and graduated as bio-engineer in cell & gene biotechnology from Ghent University. Because of my involvement in my parents business I was pretty young when I learned to look at the world with entrepreneurial eyes. Somehow I always have known that one day I would have my own business.
It all became a bit more complex when in the spring of 2003 I met Laura Vass, a Hungarian Chemist, while she was doing an Erasmus exchange in Ghent. In 2005 we got engaged and ... started our own firm in Hungary: PRONOVIX, a consulting firm that assists (biotech) companies with their international communications.
On the 29th of July we got married. Also about that time I became a full time entrepreneur. As you can imagine things get a bit more complicated when you are setting up shop in a different country, especially when people there speak a language as exotic as Hungarian...
I hope you’ll enjoy it and if you have some feedback always feel free to leave me a comment or drop me an email.