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Filip Tack

SVP of Global Sales and Business Development, Nomadesk
Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium Belgium
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Member since March 28, 2009
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Entrepreneur ¦ Startup Executive ¦ Business Developer ¦ Co-Founder Nomadesk Quote_down
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Companies I've founded or co-founded:

Nomadesk, Carambla

Startups I worked for:

Nomadesk, Carambla, Solventure, Porthus

If you are an entrepreneur, why?

I like to give purpose to creative and disruptive idea's.

What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?

Being ahead of the curve.

What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs make?

Hire the wrong people.

What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?

1) If you don't hire well, then fire well.
2) Be impatient for profit and patient for growth.
3) Be critical on when and from who to raise VC money.

Full bio

Web aficionado, founder at Nomadesk, chairman at Carambla

Co-founder, SVP of Global Sales and Business Development of Nomadesk, a leading provider of online storage, file sharing and synchronization software that enables users to access, share, synchronize and safeguard files from any location, whether online or offline.

Co-founder and Chairman at Carambla, a real-time marketplace for parking.

Bootstrapped Nomadesk and made it into a revenue generating SaaS-business, geared for growth (revenue CAGR of 271%). Nomadesk was selected by the Guidewire Group during Innovate! 2009 as "the most promising European startup" and is among the Red Herring Europe TOP 100. The company is venture-backed by Gimv and BAMS Angel Fund.

Like to believe I am "startup executive" ;-). A business and team builder with a predilection for disruptive innovation and startup business (SaaS, Utility or "Cloud" Computing); raised over USD 10 million in venture capital (seed, series A and B).

Before founding Nomadesk, I held business development and marketing positions in telecoms and Internet start-up companies. I hold a BS and MS in Bioscience Engineering from Ghent University, and an MBA degree from Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School.