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Scale Talks is a 30-minute Dutch and, dependent on the interviewee, sometimes English spoken podcast for and by founders. It aims to inspire and challenge. EBITWISE founder Dany van den Berg, together with co-host Sebastiaan van Essen, are politely firing questions at founders that reached milestones we all want to hit. Together they reflect on successes, struggles, and the future.
Each and every day, EBITWISE's Dany van den Berg is energized by the startups that he supports by providing them with part-time and interim CFOs and controllers. Sebastiaan van Essen has been a business reporter for Sprout and FD.nl, a former serial marketing manager for various startups and scaleups and nowadays chapter lead of startup accelerator FoundersBoost.
Each and every day, EBITWISE's Dany van den Berg is energized by the startups that he supports by providing them with part-time and interim CFOs and controllers. Sebastiaan van Essen has been a business reporter for Sprout and FD.nl, a former serial marketing manager for various startups and scaleups and nowadays chapter lead of startup accelerator FoundersBoost.
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Iris ten Teije haalde meer dan een miljoen op voor haar startup Koia, dat een markt probeerde aan te boren in virtuele collector's items. Toen dat niet aansloeg, maakte ze vorig jaar een pivot naar een platform dat klantenservices verzorgt voor Web3 ondernemingen. Enter: Mava.
In 2022 behaalde Reza Sardeha een mijlpaal waar veel techondernemers van dromen: de verkoop van zijn startup aan een concurrerende gigant. Reza vertelt over de pieken en dalen van zijn domeinhosting bedrijf DAN.com, inmiddels in handen van het Amerikaanse GoDaddy. Van een bedrijf met meer dan tien stagiairs, een naderend faillissement, tot de vondst die de vraag naar DAN ineens enorm snel liet groeien.
Online supermarkt Picnic Technologies groeit hard, ook in deze tijden van inflatie. Het heeft niet alleen Nederland veroverd, het levert inmiddels ook aan meer dan 550.000 klanten in 74 steden in Noordrijn-Westfalen. CTO Daniel Gebler maakte de groei als co-founder vanaf de start mee, en vertelde Dany van den Berg en Sebastiaan van Essen hoe IoT, data analytics en een continue bereidheid tot innovatie het bedrijf hebben geholpen te blijven versnellen.
"Everyone asks about that 10 million funding, but that was actually not the hardest part", says Marcel Alberts, CEO and founder of fishing net recycler Healix, which closed a round with Active Capital Company, the RVO and ABN Amro last year. "Is our business case that strong? Actually, no it isn't."
Representing an early-stage investment fund, Sophie Heijenberg (No Such Ventures) can proudly state she is discovering new Dutch startup jewels before they gain any publicity. Sophie shares how an early-stage fund operates, selects and collaborates, although she emphasizes that No Such Ventures distinguishes itself from most other Dutch seed investors.
There are not many founders who followed the lean startup methodology as well as Quan-ceo Arosha Brouwer. Before the start of her well-being analytics start-up, she conducted lots of interviews with enterprise leaders. Results: entering Y-Combinator and an investment round of over €1 mln.
It's refreshing and at the same time delightfully easy to look at entrepreneurship through the lens of Simon Werkendam, co-founder of the Zeal program. Learn to work 'on' instead of 'in' your company, and about masculine vs. feminine founders.
Within 10 years, Bas Smeulders and three companions have built Europe's nr. 1 shipping automation platform Sendcloud. As of Sept. 2022, they raised over $200 mln venture capital. Bas reflects on their decisions, drawbacks and their future steps.
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