Startups

Welcome to the Jungle: Startupbootcamp Cybersec Fintech demo day

2019-02-15 | Sieuwert van Otterloo Yesterday was demo day for the class of 2019 of the Startupbootcamp Fintech and Cybersecurity accelerator program. Twelve startups gave exciting pitches and announced their latest successes on a Jungle-themed stage at Rabobank Utrecht. The demo day demonstrated the successful transition that Startupbootcamp has made from local programmes to themed

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Dutch startups raise more than 500 mln in 2018

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2019-01-02 | Sieuwert van Otterloo Looking at the funding numbers, the Dutch startup ecosystem is in excellent health! Every year we make a list of all publicly announced startup deals in The Netherlands, and for 2018 we were able to find more than 130 deals, with a median investment amount of 1 million euros. Why

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How to Growth Hack Your Startup: A Guide

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Learning how to growth hack a startup is an extremely worthwhile process and it’s a critical part of finding out how to be sustainable in the long term. That’s because your vision, product, and users become fully aligned when you achieve product-market fit through growth hacking. But growth hacking operates on both micro and macro

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2018 Private SAAS Company Survey- Part 2

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We recently released Part 1 results of our private SaaS company survey in partnership with KBCM Technology Group (formerly Pacific Crest Securities). This is the sixth annual survey we’ve produced together, which provides data to help SaaS companies benchmark their performance against their competition. In Part 1, we covered growth rates, go-to-market trends, and CAC Rations and CAC Payback. We’re excited to share Part

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2018 SAAS Private Survey Results- Part 1

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For the seventh year in a row, we’re proud to work with KBCM Technology Group (formerly Pacific Crest Securities) to share results from a survey of ~385 private SaaS companies. Thank you to the readers of forEntrepreneurs who participated in taking the survey! Thank you also to David Spitz (@dspitz) and the team at KBCM Technology Group for their

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We’re Overthinking Seed Round Signaling Effects

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There is much hand wringing in the startup ecosystem about various forms of signaling between the seed and A rounds. Conventional wisdom, and advice, abounds: entrepreneurs should never include a venture firm in their seed round because it’ll scare other VCs off from pursuing the A. After all, the “insider” VC has more information and

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Onboarding your first Sales Hire as an Entrepreneur

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In today’s blogpost I would like to introduce my partner for Zero to 100, Stephanie (Schatz) Friedman. Stephanie has been an executive in 3 successful startups and was most recently the SVP of Sales and Customer Success at Xamarin which has since been acquired by Microsoft. Stephanie joined Xamarin as its first non-engineering hire in

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Dutch team launches OpenBook: a privacy-friendly Facebook alternative

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2018-08-24 | Sieuwert van Otterloo OpenBook is a new initiative to set up an open source, privacy-friendly, fun and honest social network. The initiative started early 2018 and is currently raising funds via Kickstarter. We interviewed ethical hacker Vincent Ruijter, who is security engineer in the Open-book team about their new initiative. He shares his

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Dutch startup funding Q2 2018: more than 200 mln

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Dutch startup funding Q2 2018: more than 200 mln – StartupJuncture / News / Dutch startup funding Q2 2018: more than 200 mln 2018-07-09 | Sieuwert van Otterloo Dutch startups have raised more than 200 million euros in funding in the second quarter of 2018. We were able to

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🌜The First Photography Community on STEEM Blockchain.🌛

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If we want to see STEEM price go to $10, $100 or even $1000 dollars we all need to contribute to the community by creating quality content, fair curation and development of apps on Steem blockchain. After some consideration BeScouted – a photography marketplace for all photography industry freelancers with more than 10 thousand talented members, chose

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Welcome to the Jungle: Startupbootcamp Cybersec Fintech demo day

Dutch startups raise more than 500 mln in 2018

How to Growth Hack Your Startup: A Guide

2018 Private SAAS Company Survey- Part 2

2018 SAAS Private Survey Results- Part 1

We’re Overthinking Seed Round Signaling Effects

Onboarding your first Sales Hire as an Entrepreneur

Dutch team launches OpenBook: a privacy-friendly Facebook alternative

Dutch startup funding Q2 2018: more than 200 mln

🌜The First Photography Community on STEEM Blockchain.🌛

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