#gidsy

[3n1gm4blogs]

Well lets put our thinking caps on

Who else has black hair, gothmo style, and currently hates you?

Or you could just locate this guy already, your daughter found his lair

Gidsy….

Miss Terry, get in the car. We’ve got work to do. Tell Harv that we’ll be late for dinner.

< @heartbreak-web >

[astrxealis]

ah. akechi same jp va as hyth

[megandzane]

THEYRE VIDUTING AS SXHOOL GIDSY

[bezazzled]

[grp txt: Dippin Dots, Gidsy] help

[solongandgoodnightxoxo]

I swear on my life, that I did not fuck it!

“But he did make out with ‘it!’ Quite humorous if you ask me.”

…I was desperate! And intoxicated… but what I really meant was he’s been tormenting me.

“Indeed! But only because I love you gidsy! I was made to love you for as long as my pixels are on screen, but the only problem was the screen being off. I figured out a way to be real with him! But it’ll never work as long as you’re around…

Real or not, you’re an obstacle keeping him from this place, where he’ll be safe forever! Didn’t you want that creator? Didn’t you want him safe and sound with me?”

Ed! I may have kind of sort have gone into the computer to get you out

And now i’m stuck too

….

Sorry!

@gideonnotgordon

You might be stupid. But how do I know this isn’t the simulation reading my thoughts and trying to deceive me?

[fraulinekritzkrieg]

"I shouldn't be in love with you! But yet, I find myself drawn in by your kind smile and charming eyes..."

Oh no. Oh dear. Now there was a young woman who blushed, and she blushed quite a bit. She tried to hide her red cheeks, but the hue was still quite visible across her nose. She was anything but ready for something like this and she found herself feel like her heart fluttered in her chest, all while babbling German nonsense, mixed with small gidsy squeaks.

[lrebecca327]

El empleo Web y móvil (TIC)

Estimados desarrolladores web, frontend y backend, diseñadores de UX, diseñadores de UI, asesores de clientes, gerentes de ventas, redactores, diseñadores web, analistas de inteligencia de negocios y gerentes de productos, alrededor de 50,500 colegas ya trabajan en una de las aproximadamente 5,700 compañías digitales de Latino America.

La digitalización no es solo una tendencia, sino también un motor de innovación en el siglo XXI: cambia los modelos de negocio y tiene un impacto en la comunicación, la movilidad, la seguridad y la investigación. Gigantes de la industria como Google, SAP, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter o Mozilla se han establecido aquí, al igual que empresas como eBay, Zalando, Ableton y Amazon, cuyo trabajo diario se basa en innovaciones y mejoras digitales. Todos son empleadores potenciales.

NUESTRO CONSEJO: ¿Ya conoce la plataforma de trabajo inverso 4scotty para TI? 4scotty invierte el proceso de solicitud. Las empresas de todo el mundo se aplican a usted y no a usted a las empresas. Pruebala ahora!

El empleo Web y móvil (TIC)

Se funda una nueva empresa en latino america cada 20 minutos, la mayoría de ellas en la industria digital. Los ejemplos incluyen compañías como 6Wunderkinder, Amen, Gidsy, Scout-Group, Tweek, HitFox o SoundCloud, compañías que disfrutan de la atención internacional y podrían ser su futuro trabajo.

No solo la mayoría de las nuevas empresas en el mundo se fundan en la capital, sino también los mayores aceleradores e inversores, como hub, raum , Plug & Play, Microsoft Ventures o Earlybird Capital. Esto acelera enormemente el desarrollo de las empresas digitales. Las compañías holding como Rocket Internet lanzan una nueva compañía cada tres meses, como Foodora, Westwing, Hello Fresh y Travel Bird, compañías que tienen empleos en su industria.

Por un lado, tiene la oportunidad de trabajar en una de las muchas agencias digitales de Berlín, como denkwerk, Moccu o VALID, que se centran en el desarrollo web y las aplicaciones móviles (aplicaciones), por otro lado, en una empresas latino america con sus departamentos de desarrollo web propio como Testo AG o Roche GmbH o su propio producto digital como PLT (ubicación de tráfico digital y procesamiento de datos). También puede encontrar trabajos en esta sucursal en la oficina, ventas, ventas y marketing.

Los equipos de las compañías digitales latinos son internacionales y el idioma de las compañías es principalmente inglés.

El salario siempre depende de la experiencia profesional y la empresa respectiva. Un programador gana un promedio de 50,000 euros brutos por año, un diseñador de UX alrededor de 45,000 euros y un analista de negocios de 40,000 euros. Una vez que haya comenzado su trabajo, todo es cuestión de talento y negociación.

Además, muchos autónomos trabajan en su industria en Latino America. Si quiere trabajar como autónomo, puede contar con una suma global de 250 euros netos por día. En este caso, sin embargo, tendrá que asumir su seguro de salud e impuestos usted mismo. El salario exacto está sujeto a sus habilidades de negociación. ¡Ve a buscar trabajo! Vale la pena.

source https://elempleo.online/el-empleo-web-y-movil-tic/

[patentanwalt-reinert]

+++ Hollywood-Schauspieler Ashton Kutcher investiert in das InsurTech Startup Wefox - wie das Handelsblatt berichtet. Die Höhe des Investments nennt das junge Unternehmen, dessen Wurzeln in der Schweiz liegen, dem Bericht zu folge nicht – insgesamt seien allerdings bereits 55 Millionen Euro in das Startup, das auch in Berlin residiert, geflossen. Das Unternehmen, früher als FinanceFox bekannt, startet mit One gerade eine eigene Versicherung. Zu den Geldgebern des Startups zählen bereits der Milliardär Li Ka-shing, Lena Meyer-Landrut, Sarah Connor und Sasha. Kutcher ist somit in bester Gesellschaft. In Deutschland hatte der schauspielende Investor mit Investments in Amen, Gidsy und Gobutler allerdings bisher wenig Glück. +++ Im #StartupTicker tickert deutsche-startups.de kurz und knapp, was in der deutschen Start-up- und Digital-Szene so alles los ist. Wir freuen uns über Tipps, was wir hier im Laufe des Tages alles so aufgreifen sollten. Social Media-Tipp: ds gibt’s auch bei Facebook, Xing, Twitter, Instagram. Foto (oben): Everett Collection / Shutterstock.com

[ourincrediblejourney]

24 April 2013:

We’re thrilled to be joining forces with GetYourGuide to help connect travelers with unique experiences worldwide.

…

We’re very excited to get started on this next adventure, and hope you’ll come along.

…

We’ll be honouring all bookings up until April 30th, 2013. If you have a booking scheduled or are hosting a Gidsy activity after that date, the booking will be cancelled (or you’ll receive a full refund)

… You’ll still be able to access and download your past receipts for bookings and activities you’ve organized just as before, up until June 1st, 2013

[its-citybeats]

Edial Dekker on Hustling in Berlin

The original interview was recorded in October 2013, while Edial was still at GetYourGuide in Berlin. As of mid-March 2014 he’s been helping Eventbrite in San Francisco on their product team.  

Edial: My name is Edial Dekker, I’m the cofounder of two companies here in Berlin. I started a design studio first, when I moved to Berlin. I’m originally from Amsterdam. I moved here with 3 friends and we had an interactive design studio for three years, very much focused on screen design. And then we started another company called Gidsy, together with my brother and Philipp, a friend of ours. We did that for 1.5 years, 2 years. And recently, 6 months ago, we got acquired by another company. The company is called GetYourGuide and I have been focusing on all their mobile efforts.

Gidsy founders: Floris, Edial & Philipp - Photo credit: wired.co.uk

Citybeat: You’re Dutch, right?

Edial: Yes, I’m originally from Amsterdam where I studied New Media and when I graduated, I immediately moved here.

Citybeat: Why did you guys decide to move to Berlin ?

Edial: So we had been traveling through Europe for a bit and we knew the SoundCloud guys pretty well. SoundCloud was like 10 people then. And we went to their office and they had this rooftop terrace with epic parties. It seemed pretty easy. It seemed like a lot of people were creating their own universe here. That was really appealing to us because we didn’t really know what we wanted to do and we didn’t have any money. And Berlin is pretty cheap. So we thought why not start from scratch and reinvent what we are doing like personally and create a new story about what we want to do. Berlin sounded like a pretty good place for that. Turned out to be a good choice I think.

Citybeat: Was there a lot of demand for designers at the time ?

Edial: Not really actually. It got a little bit better, but when we joined… There was a design culture for sure but mostly focused on typography, graphic design and print design. And we were screen designers. So it was a little tricky to be honest. We wouldn’t find many clients in Berlin so we actually had a lot of dutch clients. We also had some international ones, like a Y Combinator startup, we also did some work for Etsy, for Nokia and some bigger companies, but it’s difficult to depend on local clients. I think it’s impossible really. You have to compete with so many people. And we were really small and we wanted to stay really small. It doesn’t really work as an agency. At some point you have to scale up, because you cannot take huge clients if you don’t have the team. And we really wanted to stay small. We had a lot of freelancers working for us, and they would come in and leave. And we didn’t really like this idea because you build something for a client, you finish it up and you leave… we didn’t like that. We wanted to really own a product, optimize it. There’s a lot of stuff you want to think about.

But we also did a lot of side projects. Always. All the money we earned, we immediately spent on our own projects. We did a lot of data visualization stuff, a big mapping project, we started a book which we unfortunately never finished but we had a lot of drafts and a lot of visualizations. And then we organized a big conference here.

Citybeat: How did you transition to Gidsy? Did Berlin’s environment play a role in this?

Edial: When we moved here there were few startups. But after 2.5, 3 years, there were a lot more startups. We really like this idea of working for your own thing. And we knew some investors. And we had a lot of friends who were working in startups. We always knew we wanted to do a startup. We were just waiting for the right idea and team. And everything came together really fast. In a month, we had a team ready.

Citybeat: Was Gidsy originally a side project?

Edial: No. We immediately said “this is going to be a serious project”. We wrapped up all our clients, went on a short vacation and came back and started full-time.

Citybeat: You guys basically bootstrapped Gidsy from Berlin?

Edial: We were in a good spot there, when it comes to investment and other stuff. Airbnb was hitting off, and we were working on a similar model. There were a lot of investors and we knew all the right people already. We had a prototype and then we showed it around and things went pretty fast. At the beginning we threw in our own money and then it was a gradual flow into an investment which was really helpful.

Citybeat: How fast did Gidsy take off?

Edial: It took a while. We only had some significant traffic after 8 or 10 months. Even then, it was really challenging. We never really nailed the model. We had some kind of progress but it wasn’t really enough to be honest.

Citybeat: Did you consider quitting?

Edial: Well, no. It was a mistake I think. We should have been much more open on changing. We really believed in Gidsy. Like REALLY. It was very strong but I think we should have moved to something different earlier. And we did in the end but it took us way too long. We didn’t feel this pressure. You raise money, first half-year you think you’re invincible. You raised for 1.5 years - after 6 months you think “Are we on track? Well, we’re probably able to raise money.” Because you have investors and they all back you. After one year you start freaking out a little bit and “I should start thinking about investment. And 3 months later, “Oh my god, we’re running out of money”. I think its a cycle a lot of first-time entrepreneurs go through. We were not first-time entrepreneurs but the startup is super different from an agency.

Citybeat: Gidsy was mostly peer-to-peer. Did you guys take a cut on transactions?

Edial: Yeah it’s very similar to a lot of peer-to-peer marketplaces. We took a small cut on every successful transaction.

Citybeat: Was that business model successful?

Edial: The business model is great since the success is shared. Someone booking an activity is also a success for us. You have the same goal which is great. Our biggest thing was the chicken and egg problem. You need demand, you need supply. You need both to support each other. For us, getting the supply was difficult. Getting people to organize things… There was a very high barrier. There were a lot of semi-professionals that were doing things. And that was a big thing that we changed by getting a Sales team. And that went really well, but it was different from the peer-to-peer thing so that was a transition that we made and then we became much more similar to GetYourGuide who was not focused on individuals. So that was interesting because we switched our model towards GetYourGuide.

Citybeat: How did they [GetYourGuide] approach you?

Edial: We knew them already. We had an investor that’s really close to them. He’s not an investor in GetYourGuide actually, but he knew them very well.

Citybeat: So the fact that you were in Berlin played a big role in that acquisition?

Edial: Yes. Also in everything, in raising money, in finding talent. We had an extremely talented team. We had a really epic team.

Citybeat: So you arrive in Berlin, how do you go about connecting with people and getting to that sweet spot where you know everybody you need to know?

Edial: Events was always a big thing for us. We already did a lot of hackathons in Amsterdam. We did a Music Hack Day, Open Government Hack Day. That was a big thing so we started organizing things here. We did a Fail Conference and attended some meetups and spoke at conferences. We also did some very specific design things. We found some audience because there were not so many companies focusing on these aspects only. That really helped us.

Citybeat: Were all your people already in Berlin or did you have to pull them from other places?

Edial: Most people were already in Berlin. When at Gidsy, we hired a lot of people from outside Berlin too. That’s also great about Berlin it’s like a magnet and a lot of people are willing to move here. It’s a lot more difficult to convince someone to go to London with a family. It’s really tough there: high prices, difficult to live. In Berlin, everyone has a higher standard of living. That’s a big difference, I think, and that helps Berlin companies attract top talent. We just got a guy that joined today: super-senior guy from San Francisco. These are the guys you really want to work with because they have the experience. I see Berlin as a pyramid. At the top you have the companies that are very big. They are extremely important. The more of these you have and the higher the pyramid gets, the longer the ends become. So you have the top, better, bigger, more successful and then everything else also becomes bigger: all the knowledge, the money, the people, everything. That’s really helpful. It just takes time. I think we are in a good spot. Everything increased: the amount of shit startups, the amount of good startups. The big ones became bigger and bigger. It just takes time and getting acceleration from outside Germany and outside Europe is great.

Citybeat: You guys were one of the few Berlin startups that were acquired. It’s a lot less common in Europe that in Silicon Valley, for example. Especially within Berlin. You were a Berlin company acquired by another Berlin company. It’s pretty unique. Have you opened the path to other companies being acquired?

Edial: We were in the same batch as Amen. We were exactly like them. We had similar investors, we were super close. They had the same trajectory and they also got acquired by a Berlin company. I think its the same as raising money from the US, it’s really difficult. We tried and had some angel investors but that was it. The same thing goes through with acquisitions because we don’t have those relations and it takes a long time to build up. I heard this from many companies actually.

Citybeat: Do you see more money coming through Berlin?

Edial: Yes definitely. There are definitely more angels. A lot of guys who had an exit and now have a lot of money or maybe sold some stock. There’s definitely more money and bigger money. There is Sequoia and others. They have nothing to do here, there’s only a handful of company.

Citybeat: Do you think its easier to get spotted because there’s less companies?

Edial: I don’t know. I think there’s plenty of angels here which is okay. We were definitely at the mid of the hype and that kind of disappeared so I think the investments are happening a bit later. We for example hadn’t even launched when we raised money, and Amen was the same. I think that’s kind of changing. People are a little more hesitant.

Citybeat: Europe in general seems to be slightly more pragmatic and more real about things than some of the investors in the US who really bet on things. They want to see what’s going to happen in terms of traction. Did you guys feel that?

Edial: We were at seed stage. Our investors were always kind of US-style. They would say “We operate like US investors. We have standards.”. It depends, there are a lot of German investors too that have completely different things. They have their own standards. That’s a big thing in Europe: the standardization. It’s really missing in terms of financial frameworks, term sheets, reporting, a lot of different things.

Citybeat: Can you tell us a bit about your life in Berlin: where you live, where’s your office?

Edial: Our office used to be here (in Kreuzberg) - the Gidsy office. Now our office is in Prenzlauer Berg and I live in Neukölln. It’s really nice there, a lot of young people. I live near the airport. It’s really fun, we have a little garden there.

Tempelhof Airport - Photo credit: foursquare

Citybeat: Any places to recommend there? Bars, restaurants, your favorite places?

Edial: I can give you some addresses. There’s Herrfurthstraße, it’s a street that goes to the airport. There are a few restaurants there. There’s a good Italian place there that’s really nice, they have good fish on Monday. Weisestrasse is where all the bars are.  

Citybeat: Do you still have time to go out and party in Berlin?

Edial: I never partied a lot. But there’s a big music scene which is awesome. Berghain, Kater Holzig. There are so many crazy places. There’s a great nightlife here. Incomparable.

Kater Holzig - Photo credit: berlin-enjoy.com

Citybeat: Is there anything you don’t like about Berlin?

Edial: Yeah for sure. A lot of things are very temporary: people, jobs… You ask anyone “Will you stay here forever?” and no one will answer that question with “Yes”.

Citybeat: Can you answer this question?

Edial: No, I also wouldn’t say yes. And that sucks, I think. Because everyone is here for a goal and everyone is young, everyone is white. If ask my friends in Amsterdam, they’ll answer “Yeah sure, I’ll stay here.”.

Citybeat: Prenzlauer Berg for example is very different from where you live? There’s more family stuff going on. Do you think that’s a form of commitment?

Edial: Yes, maybe. These are people who also have steady jobs. They’re not like entrepreneurs or startup people. It happens but not so much.

There’s also a huge scene of people doing nothing. That’s terrible. They fall in this cycle of parties every night and not paying for anything, living really cheap, living on savings and not having to work. Sometimes, I like that about cities like New York where you die if you’re out of money. It’s so hard! Your lifestyle is so shit if you don’t have any money. Whereas Berlin is completely affordable if you don’t have any money. You can live on 100 euros per month for food pretty easily.

Sometimes I don’t like this part about Berlin. I like that it’s cheap but it also creates this laziness and I don’t think it’s really healthy if you’re young and you’re already lazy.

Citybeat: You’ve been working on a travel startups - what drove that? Has working on something you really care about shaped your decisions?

Edial: It’s good to have goals. I don’t look down to people who have money as a goal, it’s just not my goal. I think it’s important. It has to get you somewhere. I really like this idea of companies who want to last 100 years. Who does this these days? That’s really inspiring.

Citybeat: Do you think you’ll take another chance at it?

Edial: Yes for sure! I don’t know when but I’m definitely not done yet.

[jorisbakker-blog]

With a start capital of 1,2 million dollars, these two brothers are trying to achieve their dream. Globalise there website www.gidsy.com. This is the first part of this documentary.

[bezazzled]

...And this is why Gidsy is, like, my best friend.

[somewherehq]

Collection of the Week: #TechNostalgia

Remember the time, when your favourite product or service suddenly wasn't supported anymore? For me personally, there were two moments when I really felt I lost something useful. One was, when I got an e-mail that announced the end of @Wanderapp. The other time, which was probably even worse, was when Google announced to turn off Google Reader. Ever since then, reading my newsfeed became a challenge. I really liked the simple, boring, white background, where the only thing you had to do was to scroll down. No clicking, just pure stream of information.

We've had a good time remembering the 'old times' with our community and sharing sparks of tech we really miss. Milan felt somewhat upset when Gidsy stopped. Vania again would love for "We are hunted" to come back & Tor badly misses the Apple Faxintosh. A product  never launched. Can you blame him? Looks promising and very useful. Just look up his spark. 

So what product is it for you? What do you miss and what product or service would you like to have back? Let's enjoy some #TechNostalgia on Somewhere and share a spark yourself.

Cheers,

Monika & the team from Somewhere

[3n1gm4blogs]

…

Gidsy?

Your computer flashed on, an image of a tastefully decorated room you’ve never seen before was on it

Edward?

That familiar voice sent shivers down your spine, and then you saw him

Ed!

Gideon put his hands to the screen, pushing on it as hard as he could. But to no avail

Honey, can you get me out? Do you know a way? The wires still won’t work, I think the other you is still here somewhere.

@gideonnotgordon

I’m working on it, I swear it. While I work on an exit, you access the files and delete him for good this time.

[fontanel]

Veelbelovend: Het meeslepende jongensboekverhaal van Gidsy

Heb je vanavond nog geen plannen? Dan heb ik een leuke TV Kijktip voor je vanavond: 

Veelbelovend! is het verhaal van de broers Edial en Floris Dekker, die samen naar Berlijn vertrekken om een start-up te beginnen. Een droom-start van hun beginnende bedrijfje Gidsy als ze een investering van $1,2 miljoen dollar ontvangen om aan de slag te gaan. Maar na ruim een jaar komt de bodem van hun geldkist in zicht en wordt het spannend…

Veelbelovend! is naast een meeslepend jongensboekverhaal een scherpe schets van de wereld van een nieuwe generatie jonge internetondernemers met de bijbehorende codes. Jongeren die hun droom durven te leven met grote risico’s en teleurstellingen. En investeerders die op vele paarden wedden in de hoop één keer raak te schieten. 

Veelbelovend! wordt vanavond uitgezonden om 22.55 uur op Nederland 2. Het tweede deel kun je volgende week zien.

» Veelbelovend!

[flipermag]

FLiPER MAG 線上潮流雜誌 - 時尚．街頭．潮流 上的新文章

Fliper Mag 的新文章 http://flipermag.com/2013/05/30/edial-dekker/

【WOB】PEOPLE – Edial Dekker

Gidsy ，用熱血改變人們旅行的方式；因為它認識了好多好奇妙的朋友，做了好多瘋狂的事情。

剛到柏林的時候，已經一個人旅行了將近好幾個月，每天都在移動，不管是身體心裡都很疲憊，雖然旅行很有趣，每天都在換地點每天都有不同的挑戰跟驚喜，但其實還是有點厭倦了每天想辦法在街上認識新朋友，每天要重新重複的自我介紹、沒有固定行程、不斷改機票、車票、而且背包永遠只有幾件衣服因為不想背太重旅行的生活，因此決定到在地圖上隨便圈一個從來沒去過的地方、剛好火車票又最便宜，突然決定對柏林一無所知的情況下，那就去柏林好好的慢活一陣子吧！還記得第一天到柏林，大雨天，當場想換地點，慢活個鬼，一分鐘都不想待。

從 gidsy 還沒正式上線前，就在柏林遇見 Edial Dekker，是 gidsy 的創辦人兼 CEO，是他帶給我完全不同於一般旅行者甚至長期生活在這的柏林經驗。人好像有一個慣性，在住在一個城市久了，身體的某個感官就自動失效，久了就會忽略身邊的美好事物，視為理所當然。後來卻因為太喜歡柏林，一延再延竟然莫名其妙待了快兩年，gidsy 就是其中一個讓我留下的理由。如果 longly planet 是每個背包客的聖經，gidsy 就是 live 版的吧。

柏林，是一個人人都有機會發光的城市，所以才那麼吸引人。

就 host 來說，可能是一般的家庭主婦喜歡烤蛋糕，人生最大目的就是烤個最棒的蛋糕給小孩老公吃；也許是年輕女孩喜歡逛街，有天生的好眼光��知道哪條街最能買到復古的飾品、最美的洋裝；或是上網看了 youtube 學會切玻璃的宅男，也因此有機會正大光明邀請女生來家裡來杯啤酒，喝完一起切玻璃做成杯子或是蠟燭台，多浪漫；還遇過像是其實只是來度假幾個月的 Giuseppe Salerno，莫名其妙得開了一個書法活動、短短半年，用他的熱情感染大家在柏林造成瘋狂、60幾篇新聞報導，還在5/16被邀請去 TYPO DESIGNER BERLIN 的 TYPO TALK���全場 1500人爆滿，門票竟然還要260歐元，誰想得到？甚至是像我明明只是來旅行，但因為太想念吃牛肉麵，越洋跟媽媽 skype 學會牛肉麵，也就這樣開了一個活動，在陌生的城市用自己最喜歡的牛肉麵把大家串連起來變成好朋友；還有一群人熱愛廢墟冒險，這是一般旅客完全接觸不到的地下文化，更顯得gidsy吸引人。

對我而言，gidsy 強調的不單單是一種旅遊網站，而是一種新的生活態度面對旅行，勇敢的 get lost。

價值是自己給的，每個人都不同，都很特別，不需要是大師也是可以分享自己的經驗，只要你真心熱愛你喜歡的事物，你就是大師。就像 gidsy 在網站所說，find something unique to do，每個人都是 unique。

台灣關於 gidsy 的資訊較少，財經新聞幾乎都是翻譯外文，例如好萊烏明星艾希頓庫奇投資，上個月瑞士旅遊平台公司 getyourguide 剛買下 gidsy 等(網路上罵翻了，因為 getyourguide 實在太醜了)。實際參與的人也不多，如果 Edial 是玩最多的人，我應該就是經過他認證緊接在後面的第二吧，我們見面最常說的對話是這禮拜你玩幾個了？但他是創辦人呀他開的，不算呀（笑）

Edial Dekker，是 gidsy 創辦人兼CEO，4/25 正式併購於 getyourguide，目前任職於 getyourguide ，是在 WOB 在柏林的好朋友，也是一個會在 gidsy 辦公室玩 WOB 同事都想殺掉他的大男孩，也是很高的荷蘭男孩。

2012年 WOB 採訪過他，來看看當時他怎麼說關於 gidsy 跟 WOB 吧。

- Hello! 你好嗎? 跟大家聊一聊你自己吧。

我很好，謝謝！我是 Edial，27歲，3���前開始住在柏林。熱愛衝浪、烹飪和手作。是 Gidsy.com 的其中一個共同創辦人，Gidsy 是一個提供任何人想探索、預定、甚至提供活動的一個平台。

- 什麼是 Gidsy?

簡單來說，Gidsy 是一個發掘有趣事情來做的市場。人們可以探索活動，由真實的人提供活動。從城市漫遊，烹飪課，煮咖啡和其他超多令人興奮的活動。我們想要串連這些人，並回答”what to do”這個問題，無論你在世界的哪個角落！

- Gidsy 的靈感來自什麼？如何開始？

從2011年秋天，我們去柏林附近的森林，想找可食用磨菇來蘑菇燉飯的想法開始。不幸的是，我們根本不知道哪些能做和不能吃。所以，我們想要找到一個人可以告訴我們哪些蘑菇可用於烹調。Google 了一圈之後發現，發現找到對的人並安排一個蘑菇採摘的小旅行，這幾乎是不可能的。突然意識到這是一個巨大的商機，因為提供一個付款、預定保留、取消等所有跟活動有關的事情，其實是非常困難的。

- 目前為止你最喜歡的的 Gidsy 活動是？

我去過很多個不同的活動。在這裡工作的好東西之一，就是你可以在上班時間參加！哈哈。事實上有很多都很難忘的。我很喜歡 Piet 所發起的紅燈區活動，他是一個退休警官，有很多很多的故事。上週末，我去了漢堡，與 Marius 和 Peter 一起開帆船出海，這也超棒的。很多時候，活動之所以特別是因為這些有故事的人。

- Gidsy 是一個超棒的主意，你認為亞洲接受這種新的方式來分享經驗，並不斷探索世界的程度多少？

我們已經得到來自亞洲很積極正面的回應，非常高興地看到，人們將如何使用 Gidsy。我們盡量保持盡可能開放，每一個都是獨一無二的。很多時候，在一個城市的最對的事情，這就是對的地方。

- 為何選在柏林創業？

柏林是歐洲最激動人心的地方之一，現在也有很多令人興奮的事情要做。這適合 Gidsy 的好… ！

- 跟我們分享你每天的行程是什麼吧！一直再飛來飛去嗎？

幸運的是，沒有！我真的嘗試盡可能留在柏林。通常我每天早上7:30左右開始，讀一些資料，準備一些注意事項，然後前往辦公室。在辦公室裡的早餐，一杯咖啡後，就準備好開始。早上，我盡可能嘗試回答所有的電子郵件。在過去的幾週，我也做了一些客服。接著通常大家一起在辦公室吃午飯。下午，我盡量挑選重要工作和完成一件比較大的事。這些事情總是非常不同的每一天。有時候，是一個新的功能上線、工作、合約或完全不同的東西，這使得上班變得很有樂趣。

中午最喜歡到gidsy辦公室一起吃午餐，在台灣這麼大餐桌的辦公空間是應該是奢侈吧。

- 想對也想創業的大家說什麼話？

做你所愛的東西，並從今天開始。開始的一小步，也許發送一封電子郵件，寫下你的想法，或者買一個筆記本，寫下你的想法。

- 人生最想做的事情是？

好問題…我不知道，說實話，我試圖把自己所有的時間做一些新的東西。

- 推薦你最愛柏林秘密基地。

我住的滕珀爾霍夫公園附近，我很愛那。我有一個小花圃在那，種植蔬菜和花卉，這絕對是我最喜歡的地方在柏林。

- 愛衝浪嗎？

是的！我是衝浪超及愛好者。我有兩個板，也曾經在葡萄牙教暑期衝浪課程。對於我來說，衝浪近乎自由，可以接近大自然，我喜歡它。

- 愛旅遊嗎？

是的，我很愛旅行。品嚐全新食物，更多地了解其他文化，在瘋狂狀態下結束旅程，結交新朋友，感覺像一個探險家的一些生活中的最好的事情，他們都自動地發生，當你旅行。

- 愛烹飪嗎？拿手菜？

是的，烹飪對我來說很重要！最近，已經料理了很多湯。我想我得雞湯是相當不錯呀… ！

第一次去Edial家玩的時候，他正在煮超好喝的雞湯。

- 你喜歡 WAVEONBOARD 嗎?

沒錯！我們現在有兩個在辦公室，超棒，因為柏林是完全內陸，Waveonboard 很好，是因為它很接近衝浪，哈哈。我已經開始期待下一次衝浪，看看到底進步沒…

WOB 在辦公室眼中應該是惱人的黑名單玩具，因為老闆會滑來滑去，哈。

- 最後一題，你有沒有去過台灣嗎？好期待你快點把 gidsy 拓展到台灣？

很不幸，目前為止我從來沒有去過台灣… ！但我很想去，想試試小籠包（還要用 google 查這個字）。還有也許衝浪…？