The live talkshow Stadsleven (‘City Life’) on Nov. 29th was about that uniquely urban phenomenon, the startup scene. Amsterdam is a frontrunner in Europe, but is the winner-takes-all mentality a sustainable economic model for the future? And how do startups…
By Tilman Müller This week some important protagonists of the Dutch startup scene came together at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam to discuss the prospects of the Dutch startup ecosystem with a focus on Amsterdam. The occasion was the bi-monthly…
The idea for PastBook was born when Stefano Cutello was sitting on the couch with his dad, looking through old photo albums. “I wondered: will I ever be able to have that same experience with my children, now that…
Startup Amsterdam is the city department that stimulates the ‘urban ecosystem’ of startups. Why, and how? Director Bas Beekman is speaking in the live talkshow Stadsleven: ‘Start up, Fall down’ on Nov. 26th at Pakhuis De Zwijger. “Unlike cities like…
Cumulus Park is a new innovation district initiated by the bank ING, in Zuidoost, the southeastern area of Amsterdam, in collaboration with the city and with two educational institutions, a vocational college and the Amsterdam of Applied Sciences. It has…
In 2012 Daan Weddepohl and three others founded Peerby, a website and an app where people can borrow and rent stuff, like tools. It was a great success – until it wasn’t. (And now it is again). Daan is speaking…
Which cities are in pole position to be(come) the next urban startup hotspots? The World Economic Forum published a new overview that holds some interesting surprises – and disappointments. More about startups and their importance for urban life in the…
Just over four years ago, ParkFlyRent opened. At the end of last year, it closed down. What went wrong? Founder Niels de Greef wrote this ‘post-mortem’ of his own startup and will be speaking in Stadsleven : ‘Start up, Fall…
The love affair between millennials and startups seems to have cooled. The number of founders under 30 has dropped to the lowest level in a quarter-century. The magazine The Atlantic looked into how this happened, and we’ll be talking about…
Cities love startups: they bring in new ideas, talent, bright young people from other countries and investors’ money. But…. where are the women? Even in the Netherlands, which sees itself as progressive, women are a tiny minority in the tech…