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Innobizz
Posted by Rene Jansen
This Thursday David and I went to Innobizz, an interesting event where (starting) highly innovating entrepreneurs can meet each other and potential informal investors. Was a very interesting day. We got in touch with people from NEBIB, an organisation that matches informal investors and business angels with entrepreneurs. Interesting organisation, if you are in need of informal capital in the Netherlands, check them out!We were able to present our bPerform ideas in front of a big community of fellow entrepreneurs and investors. Result: several opportunities to discuss in more detail our business plan and ideas the coming weeks. We were even interviewed by the Computable, a well known Dutch magazines on ICT. Might be published in a few weeks.
We got as well in touch with several organisations that offer support in acquiring money and subsidy from the Dutch state and from the EU (like Cordis and Senter Novem). You might consider to check out www.subsidieraad.nl, www.pwl.nl or www.vectrix.nl if you want support. I found out that these companies often offer a no cure no pay option, where you pay between 10% and 15% of the total amount, only if they succeed. Another good source for information on subsidy is from Elsevier.
If you would like to double the money that investors invest in your startup, you might point them to www.technopartner.nl. This organization is funded by the dutch ministry of economic affairs, and doubles the investment budget of an investor (only for high tech investments that is).
Another useful initiative is LiveWire. This initiative, operated by Syntens and sponsored by Shell, Radio 538 and BDO accountants, offers free coaching services to start ups. They even have an award program where you can win money and free commercial time on radio 538.
Last but not least we met the people from NextStage. They organise networking events for innovative entrepreneurs. Nice guys.