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News for the The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam

Submitted by Jaap on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 20:30

The Next Web Conference has started. Interesting talks have been there today. You can read about the talks at Dutch Web Cowboys

How to become a VC when you grow up?

Submitted by admin on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 19:45

Ever thought about coming a VC? Think again. Chances are really slim. However if you are still interested you can read the paper (pdf) by Judd Rogers

Does the concept of Addressable Market matter to Investors?

Submitted by admin on Sat, 04/11/2009 - 21:57

Quite often startups have ideas for which they think there is a market, but the market is not there yet. Therefore it is very difficult to calculate the addressable market. An example of such a startup is feedburner. Long before it was known that there was a need for bloggers to manage their feeds and that feedburner could provide ads as a revenue source feedburner already received VC money.....

Socotoko

Founded: 2008
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Investor(s): StartImpuls Utrecht

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Socotoko is an advertising network for small publishers. The difference with other advertising networks is that the ads are displayed in a widget. If you put the widget on your site somebody else can grab it and also put it on his/her site and you also get payed for it.

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StartImpuls Utrecht

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Fund size: M Euro
Startup portfolio: Socotoko | Yunoo

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StartImpuls Utrecht is a joint-venture between several banks and universities to stimulate high tech startups in the Utrecht Area. Except some pre-seed capital they also provide help with patents, housing, coaching, business networks etc.

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Ecoventures

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Fund size: M Euro
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Ecoventures brings innovative products, systems and services developed within the Econcern group to the market. This is done by establishing companies which can take prototypes to commercial maturity. We often work together with strategic partners and investors to grow a venture into a mature company.....

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Yunoo

Founded: 2008
Categories: Services | Software | Web
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Yunoo is a free social personal finance web-application. the company is based in the Netherlands.....

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Vote for the best web startups at the NextWeb conference

Submitted by Jaap on Tue, 04/07/2009 - 13:41

In just 8 day the Next Web Conference will be held again in Amsterdam. As usual there also is a startup competition. You can watch video of pitches of the various startups and vote for them on this page

Do VC's Guess The Exit At The Beginning?

Submitted by Jaap on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 06:58

Ask the VC today is answering a question if VC's make guesses about the exit scenario when they invest. According to Ask the VC this used to be the case in the Internet bubble. VC's back then would do extensive analysis and modelling with exit scenarios. Now everyone discovered that these analysis were total baloney.....

In Real Life (IRL) and Mobypicture in the Red Herring Top 100

Submitted by Jaap on Sat, 04/04/2009 - 22:04

A while a go we already reported about the fact that 5 Dutch High Tech Startups got nominated for Red Herring Top 100 awards. Now the winners were announced at the Red Herring event in Berlin.In Real Life (IRL) and Mobypicture are part of the top 100.....

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