On Monday, June 29, the first group of four entrepreneurs presented their businessplans to a business panel. Rob Wermenbol of Amitek Model Factory kicked off with his businessplan for 3-d printed models, usable for any kind of market and application. Showing a variety of models, Rob illustrated how his company might radically change the concept of design and production, in terms of flexibiltity, investments and time-to-market. Next came Paul Jenkins and Elisa Gielen, who presented “seeEzi”, their video-based platform for knowledge exchange, facilitating contacts between laymen and experts, in healthcare and business consulting to begin with. Frans Paalman of Frawi, introduced his budding business idea with a BMW-video on the garage mechanic of the future. However, Frans aims at facilitating private persons to do car maintenance. Finally the floor was for Dennis Doubovski with a sophisticated presentation of Bestelplatform, a solution for the problem of incompatible ordering systems, that many customers and suppliers have.

The panel scored the entrepreneurs on their management teams, their individual qualities, their business models and their products. But of course, the entrepreneurs also got lots of good advice from Sascha Mengerink, Roel Pieper, Geerhard Huising and Vincent Heutinck, and -especially for Frans- Wouter Koenderink.

Venturelab’s programme manager Rob van Lambalgen and his wife Marjan hosted the first (and from now on it will be an annual VLT tradition, Rob promised!) BBQ for VentureLab’s entrepreneurs, coaches, team members and their partners. It was a warm and wonderful evening in a beautiful environment. See the photo album for an impression.

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