Tips for investors and startups published in Q4 in 2017

2017 was about consolidating our position as the biggest angel investment platform in the Netherlands, consistently with the most deals. In 3,5 – 4 years of history, we’ve only seen about 10% failure rate. That doesn’t mean that all our companies are going to be…

Anouk Bikkel works as a Director at Amsterdam Capital Week, one of the most important startup events in the Netherlands, where startups and investors connect and create long-term partnerships. Find out what is it about startups that particularly attracts her, what she predicts for the…

‘A Chat With Investors’ is our new blog series, in which we ask successful investors to share their knowledge, experience, and tips for both entrepreneurs and beginning startup investors. We had a chance to talk to Martin Amersfoort, who has a Ph.D. in optoelectronics, was…

Oscar Kneppers got involved in the startup scene after selling both of his companies and starting Rockstart, an accelerator focused on technological innovation and practical solutions that make the world a better place. Rockstart helped over 120 early-stage startups to grow, it is focused on…

‘A Chat With Investors’ is our new blog series, in which we ask successful investors to share their knowledge, experience, and tips for both entrepreneurs and beginning startup investors. We spoke to Kees-Jan Heijdra, an economist and an experienced entrepreneur who started investing in startups…

Trivoly is a tiny disc that fits under your own watch delivers app notifications, messages, calls and alerts to the watch you love via Bluetooth. We had a chance to talk to Roger Willemsen, the co-founder, who told us about the idea that got it…

Rune Theill is the co-founder and CEO of Rockstart, a startup accelerator founded with a goal to provide access to capital, mentorship and the community. After realizing that the creation of an effective ecosystem is the biggest challenge Europe is facing in order to have world-class…

‘A Chat With Investors’ is our new blog series, in which we ask successful investors to share their knowledge, experience, and tips for both entrepreneurs and beginning startup investors. We had a chance to talk to Patrick van Aalst, who was the CEO of Macaw,…

With twenty years of experience in management and commercial marketing, Jorg Kop is now working as a Managing Director at UtrechtInc, an incubator that focuses on scalable and innovative startups. He believes the excitement of working with capable people who share a common inspired vision…

In our new ‘Industry Changemakers’ blog series we pick the hottest topics and the experts that can tell us all about them. One of the hottest topics at the moment is definitely blockchain technology. For those of you who still don’t know, blockchain is an…

Video Media Group (VMG) offers innovative and powerful proprietary video solutions that create video advertising inventory and monetization on all screens. At the moment, the VMG InPageVideo advertising format is their most successful video advertising format for web publishers and advertisers. Find out what problems…

Betsy Lindsey has been working with startups since 2000, in essence, she has been “accelerating” startups before that word was even associated with startups, and she has over 18 years of international business management and investment experience. Now, she works as a Managing Director of…