Haje Jan Kamps Explained

Haje Jan Kamps
Birth Place:Leiderdorp, South Holland, Netherlands
Citizenship:Dutch
Alma Mater:Liverpool John Moores University
Occupation:Photographer, businessman, journalist, author, blogger, freelance writer
Organization:Triggertrap, TechCrunch, Lifefolder, Bolt VC, Konf, ScreenCloud, Photocritic photography school
Notable Works:The Rules of Photography (and when to break them), Shooting Yourself: Self-Portraits with Attitude!, Macro Photography Photo Workshop, Why Photographers Prefer Cloudy Days, Accelerated Startup
Website:kamps.org

Haje Jan Kamps is a Dutch photographer,[1] [2] [3] author,[4] awards photo judge,[5] [6] freelance writer,[7] businessman,[8] [9] [10] journalist,[11] inventor, and editor. Jan Kamps was the director of portfolio at Bolt VC,[12] a hardware-focused pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm interested on hardware startups and enabling technologies.[13] [14] [15] According to William A. Sahlman and Robert F. White of the Harvard Business School, experts on Entrepreneurial Management, Bolt VC resembled a new concept of seed venture capital firm built to serve the needs of early-stage startups at the intersection of hardware and software.[16] Kamps has also been a staff writer for TechCrunch and is still a frequent contributor to the news site.[17] His work on TechCrunch has been featured on Forbes.[18] [19] From 2011 to 2017, Kamps acted as the Founder CEO of Triggertrap. He is currently the CEO of Konf, a platform for small and medium-sized virtual conferences and events.[20] On the blog of the company registered at Medium, an online publishing platform, Kamps himself stated that a permanent behavior change was expected because of the COVID-19 pandemic[21] and that people were likely to rely more on virtual conferencing, which may have some positive effects on the environment.[22] As an expert, he has been part of the panel of judges for the E! People's Choice Awards[23] and the Oslo Innovation Award.[24]

Background

Born in South Holland, the Netherlands, Haje moved to Norway in 1988, and to the UK in 2001. In England, he studied Journalism at Liverpool John Moores University,[25] and started a stint working in publishing, media and photography.[26] In 2017, he co-launched Lifefolder,[27] [28] known for having launched Emily,[29] [30] a Messenger Facebook chatbot designed to help people with end of life planning in North Carolina. Using artificial intelligence, Lifefolder aimed to normalize talking about death and prepare for the logistics of dying.[31] [32] [33] [34] In December 2017, it was announced that the company was about to cease operations.[35]

Media career

In 1998, together with Martin Lexow Wirak, when Kamps was sixteen years old, he started Digitalkamera.no, a major Norwegian technology news website about digital photography which later evolved into akam.no.

In 2002, while working at Granada Television, on a Coronation Street specials series,[36] Kamps started a website called Photocritic, which gained notoriety in December 2005, when it was featured on Slashdot,[37] and subsequently got coverage on Digg.[38] In 2011, it was cited by author Jeremy Butler in his book 'Television Style'.[39]

The Photocritic.org website was later purchased by Sterling Publishing, and is now hosted at Pixiq, where Kamps posts regularly.

In 2007, Kamps wrote a book on macro photography for John Wiley & Sons publishing, entitled Macro Photography Photo Workshop . He has worked at Future Publishing as a web editor and for Fast Car Magazine and T3 magazine as well. He later started working as a senior producer at Five, the UK-based TV channel. At Five, Kamps was the senior producer of the FiveFWD website.

Since then, Kamps is known for working as a freelance ghostwriter and media editorial consultant.[40] He has also acted as a guest in different photography competitions.[41] In 2011, he created Triggertrap, which was his main occupation until 2017, when the company ceased operations.[42]

Product development

In 2011, Kamps created the Triggertrap universal camera trigger,[43] a device based on the Arduino rapid prototyping platform. The Triggertrap was known for connecting cameras to various sources (light, laser, sound, or any other arbitrary source), and can be used to trigger the camera on a certain event. The Triggertrap project was crowd-funded[44] via the Kickstarter platform in July 2011, raising $77,262 - more than 3 times over its original $25,000 goal.[45]

In November 2013, the Triggertrap Ada was crowd-funded via Kickstarter, raising £290,386 though the original goal was £50,000.[46] On 2 March 2015, Triggertrap announced that they had failed to bring the product into production and that only the remaining 20% of the funds from the Kickstarter campaign would be returned to the original backers.[47] [48]

Awards

Bibliography

Books

Other book credits

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Interview with Haje Jan Kamps of Photocritic.org. 2020-12-14. petapixel.com. 2016-03-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20160306000745/http://petapixel.com/2010/08/03/interview-with-haje-jan-kamps-of-photocritic-org/. live.
  2. Book: Popular Photography March 2015 USA.
  3. Web site: Interview with Haje Jan Kamps of Triggertrap. 2020-12-14. petapixel.com. 13 July 2011 . 2014-10-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20141022024311/http://petapixel.com/2011/07/13/interview-with-haje-jan-kamps-of-triggertrap/. live.
  4. Web site: Noble. Barnes. Focus on Travel Photography: Focus on the Fundamentals (Focus On Series)NOOK Book. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20201215105456/https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/focus-on-travel-photography-haje-jan-kamps/1110783274. 2020-12-15. 2020-12-14. Barnes & Noble. en.
  5. Web site: Harry. 2017-10-30. 2017 Visual 1st Awards Go to Photomyne, PastBook, V360, and Streetography. 2020-12-14. CultHub. en-US. 2020-09-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20200919154115/https://www.culthub.com/pr/2017-visual-1st-awards-go-to-photomyne-pastbook-v360-and-streetography/18809. live.
  6. 2017 Visual 1st Awards Go to Photomyne, PastBook, V360, and Streetography. 2020-12-15. www.newswire.com. en. 2020-09-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20200928115011/https://www.newswire.com/news/2017-visual-1st-awards-go-to-photomyne-pastbook-v360-and-streetography-20023901. live.
  7. Web site: Haje Jan Kamps. 2020-12-14. Medium. en. 2020-11-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20201121123916/https://haje.medium.com/. live.
  8. Web site: UK Startups Have Gone Mad for MV Madness 博客 Microsoft for Startups. 2020-12-14. startups.microsoft.com. en-us. 2020-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20201215103122/https://startups.microsoft.com/zh-cn/blog/uk-startups-have-gone-mad-for-mv-madness/. live.
  9. Web site: La compañía que ofreció vacaciones ilimitadas y fue un desastre (y no por el motivo más obvio). 2020-12-15. es.finance.yahoo.com. 15 July 2015 . es-ES. 2020-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20201215103108/https://consent.yahoo.com/v2/collectConsent?sessionId=2_cc-session_e17f21a9-347e-4c6e-a0ba-571af40276b2. live.
  10. Web site: 2014-02-10. Why tech industries are thriving in the south-west of England. 2020-12-15. The Guardian. en. 2020-11-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20201115222944/https://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2014/feb/10/bristol-tech-industries. live.
  11. Web site: Haje Jan Kamps, Author at Product Management Confabulation - Page 15 of 17. 2020-12-15. Product Management Confabulation. en-US. 2020-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20201215103131/https://productmanagement.confabulatory.net/author/haje-jan-kamps/. live.
  12. Web site: Bolt Ventures Investor Profile: Portfolio & Exits PitchBook. 2020-12-15. pitchbook.com. en. 2020-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20201215103127/https://pitchbook.com/profiles/investor/62413-84. live.
  13. Web site: 2019-07-09. Bolt raises $68 million to simplify ecommerce. 2020-12-15. VentureBeat. en-US. 2020-10-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20201030141933/https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/09/bolt-fundingbolt-raises-68-million-to-simplify-ecommerce/. live.
  14. Web site: Bolt Raises $50M to Expand E-Commerce Checkout Platform. 2020-12-15. Built In San Francisco. en. 2020-10-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20201028054513/https://www.builtinsf.com/2020/07/16/bolt-raises-50m-series-c. live.
  15. Web site: O'Brien. Kelly. Bolt raises third venture fund dedicated to hardware tech. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20201215103133/https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2017/05/31/bolt-raises-third-venture-fund-dedicated-to.html. 2020-12-15. 2020-12-15. Biz Journals.
  16. Web site: BOLT: Seed Venture Capital Firm - Case - Faculty & Research . 2020-12-15. Harvard Business School . 2020-08-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20200809074043/https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48946. live.
  17. Web site: Author: Haje Jan Kamps. 2020-12-14. TechCrunch. en-US. 2020-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20201215103133/https://techcrunch.com/author/haje-jan-kamps/. live.
  18. Web site: Team. Trefis. What Drives Value At Electric Scooter Sharing Startups Like Bird?. 2020-12-14. Forbes. en. 2020-09-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20200929235040/https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2018/05/01/what-drives-value-at-electric-scooter-sharing-startups-like-bird/. live.
  19. Web site: Garcia. Jon. 2018. Bird will pay you to gather and charge their electric scooters. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20201215103131/https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2018/05/22/bird-electric-scooters-nashville-charger-charging-locations/633610002/. 2020-12-15. The Tennessean.
  20. Web site: Vazquez. Tatiana. Reconectando, de mala gana, con Facebook - Hyper Noir. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20201215103132/https://hypernoir.com/reconectando-de-mala-gana-con-facebook/. 2020-12-15. 2020-12-14. Hypernoir. 12 May 2020 . es.
  21. Web site: Kamps. Haje Jan. 2020-05-18. Building the future of virtual conferences. 2020-12-15. Medium. en. 2020-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20201215103140/https://medium.com/konf-clubhouse/building-the-future-of-virtual-conferences-5eaf5d73b764. live.
  22. Web site: Hesham. Rana. 2020-04-29. Why it's time to get used to virtual conferences.. 2020-12-15. Medium. en. 2020-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20201215103145/https://medium.com/konf-clubhouse/why-its-time-to-get-used-to-virtual-conferences-82b9c95f0714. live.
  23. Web site: Pocket-lint. 2007-12-17. Yahoo launches Finds of the Year 2007. 2020-12-14. Pocket-lint. en-gb. 2020-08-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20200807131951/https://www.pocket-lint.com/apps/news/84572-yahoo-finds-year-2007-launched. live.
  24. Web site: Flockett. Anna. Warm tech startup selected as the 2020 recipient of Oslo Innovation Award. 2020-12-15. Startups Magazine. en. 2020-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20201215103144/https://startupsmagazine.co.uk/article-warm-tech-startup-selected-2020-recipient-oslo-innovation-award. live.
  25. Web site: Alumni US Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom. 2020-12-14. alumnius.net. 2020-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20201215103126/https://alumnius.net/liverpool_john_moore-2608-2. live.
  26. Web site: Interview with Haje Jan Kamps of Photocritic.org . 2012-01-11 . 2011-08-31 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110831143449/http://www.petapixel.com/2010/08/03/interview-with-haje-jan-kamps-of-photocritic-org/ . live .
  27. News: Chatbot apps help users prepare for death. en-GB. BBC News. 2020-12-16.
  28. Web site: Business. Journal of Beautiful. 2017-09-15. Human of Beautiful Business: Haje Jan Kamps, Co-Founder and CEO, LifeFolder. 2020-12-14. Medium. en. 2020-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20201215103151/https://journalofbeautifulbusiness.com/speaker-profile-haje-jan-kamps-co-founder-and-ceo-lifefolder-on-talking-to-a-robot-about-death-33177d398d52?gi=8715454a242f. live.
  29. Book: Öhman. Carl. The 2018 Yearbook of the Digital Ethics Lab. Watson. David. 2019-10-10. Springer Nature. 978-3-030-17152-0. 171. en. 2020-12-14. 2020-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20201215103148/https://books.google.com/books?id=RG21DwAAQBAJ&dq=emily+lifefolder&source=gbs_navlinks_s. live.
  30. Web site: MOLST. advance directive, being mortal, death, dying, wills, hospice, healthcare proxy, advance care planning. Meet Emily. 2020-12-15. GoodEnding Org. 17 August 2017 . en-US. 2020-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20201215103126/http://www.goodending.org/blog/2017/8/17/meet-emily. live.
  31. Web site: 2017-09-08. AI Robot Takes the Burden Out of End-of-Life Conversations - Debra Lee - EdLab. 2020-12-14. EdLab, Teachers College Columbia University. en.
  32. Web site: Vatomsky. Sonya. 2017-11-27. You're Going to Die—and This Bot Wants to Help You Prepare For It. 2020-12-14. Men's Health. en-US. 2019-03-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20190305021446/https://www.menshealth.com/health/a19543721/death-bot/. live.
  33. Web site: 2017-06-20. Emily bot walks you through end-of-life decisions. 2020-12-14. VentureBeat. en-US. 2020-11-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20201114194122/https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/20/emily-bot-walks-you-through-end-of-life-decisions/. live.
  34. LifeFolder. LifeFolder launches chatbot to help people with end of life planning in North Carolina. 2020-12-14. www.prnewswire.com. en. 2017-08-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20170810125124/http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lifefolder-launches-chatbot-to-help-people-with-end-of-life-planning-in-north-carolina-300502433.html. live.
  35. Web site: Kamps. Haje Jan. 2020-07-23. A fond farewell from LifeFolder. 2020-12-15. Medium. en. 2020-10-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20201029112056/https://medium.com/life-folder/a-fond-farewell-from-lifefolder-566d54c15e93. live.
  36. Web site: IMDB - Haje Jan Kamps . . 2010-02-19 . 2002 . 2020-12-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201215105507/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2784950/ . live .
  37. News: Macro Lens from a Pringles Can . 2005-12-12 . 2008-12-14 . 2020-12-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201215103148/https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/05/12/12/1725209/macro-lens-from-a-pringles-can . live .
  38. News: Make a Macro Lens from a Pringles Can . 2008-12-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080917191541/http://digg.com/tech_news/Make_a_Macro_Lens_from_a_Pringles_Can . 2008-09-17 . dead .
  39. Book: Butler, Jeremy G.. Television Style. 2010-04-05. Routledge. 978-1-135-89069-8. en. 2020-12-15. 2020-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20201215103124/https://books.google.co.ve/books?id=9etL4Qu1lLMC&pg=SA2-PA38&dq=%22Jan+Kamps%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjh9dqaoM_tAhWCuVkKHVTmBHY4ChDoATACegQIBhAC#v=onepage&q=%22Jan%20Kamps%22&f=false. live.
  40. Web site: Kamps Consulting . 2009-11-01 . Kamps . Haje Jan . Kamps Consulting Ltd . 2009-12-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091208062854/http://kamps.org/ . live .
  41. Web site: Focal Press Photography Contest · haje jan kamps --- . 2012-01-11 . 2016-03-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304110610/http://focalpressphotographycontest.com/tag/haje-jan-kamps/ . live .
  42. Web site: R.I.P Triggertrap: Trigger Pioneer to Close Shop After Kickstarter Fail. 2020-12-14. petapixel.com. 31 January 2017 . 2020-11-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20201112011104/https://petapixel.com/2017/01/31/r-p-triggertrap-trigger-pioneer-close-shop-kickstarter-fail/. live.
  43. News: Kat . Hannaford . Triggertrap Commands Cameras to Take Photos In Reaction to Pretty Much Anything . 2011-06-29 . Gizmodo . 2011-11-24 . 2020-12-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201215103130/https://gizmodo.com/tag/triggertrap . live .
  44. Web site: 2014-05-08. Crowdfunded projects about crowdfunding draw few crowds. 2020-12-14. SFChronicle.com. en-US. 2020-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20201215103153/https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/Crowdfunded-projects-about-crowdfunding-draw-few-5464415.php. live.
  45. Web site: 2017-03-13. Triggertrap time-lapse photography concept unveiled TechRadar. 2020-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20170313120300/https://www.techradar.com/news/photography-video-capture/cameras/triggertrap-time-lapse-photography-concept-unveiled-975639. 2017-03-13.
  46. Web site: Business 20 November 2013. 2020-12-15. Issuu. 22 November 2013 . en. 2016-09-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20160906115547/https://issuu.com/bgsd-studio/docs/business-bp-20nov13. live.
  47. Web site: Kamps. Haje Jan. 2019-11-01. How a half-million dollar Kickstarter project can crash and burn. 2020-12-15. Medium. en. 2020-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20201215110631/https://haje.medium.com/how-a-half-million-dollar-kickstarter-project-can-crash-and-burn-5482d7d33ee1. live.
  48. Web site: Kamps. Haje Jan. 2015-01-22. Hardware is Hard: Getting a Kickstarter project shipped. 2020-12-15. Medium. en. 2020-11-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20201113141927/https://medium.com/triggertrap-playbook/hardware-is-hard-getting-a-kickstarter-project-shipped-59c9596bdd7f. live.
  49. News: Purdy. Kevin. 2008-12-15. Top 10 DIY Photography Tools. 2008-12-14. 2020-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20201215103126/https://lifehacker.com/top-10-diy-photography-tools-5108706. live.
  50. Web site: Kamps Consulting . 2010-09-09 . Kamps . Haje Jan . Kamps Consulting Ltd . https://web.archive.org/web/20100923023940/http://kamps.org/consulting/ . 2010-09-23 . dead .

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