VentureLab Twente has planned to start training a new group of entrepreneurs in January, so
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A panel of experienced business incubator managers has selected the most recent recipients of the NBIA Soft Landings International Incubator designation from November 2009.

And… the VentureLab Twente Incubator hereby has been granted this Soft Landings designation for the first time!

Now in its fifth year, the Soft Landings program recognizes incubators with proven ability to help nondomestic companies enter the incubator’s domestic market.
NBIA’s Soft Landings designations are effective for two years; programs must reapply biennially for continuing designation. Read the rest of this entry →

There’s a new podcast available with Roel Pieper! Because the podcast is in Dutch, the rest of this news-item is also in Dutch.

Roel pieper geeft tips & trics voor investeren en ondernemen in het huidige financiele klimaat.
Naar aanleiding van de presentatie die hij gaf aan de VLT-entrepreneurs, benadrukt Pieper in een ruim 10 minuten durende podcast nog eens de (on)mogelijkheden van deze tijd.

Hij gaat hierbij in op een veelvoorkomende misvatting van startende ondernemers en investeerders: je ontkomt er niet aan om vroeg of laat een keer goed op je bek te gaan!

Daarvan uitgaan is een begin, maar wat doe je vervolgens precies om er rekening mee te houden?…
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VLT-entrepreneur Maria Lijding is with her ‘Smart Signs Solutions‘

one of six finalists in the
Young Technology Award competition.

  Maria Lijding started her company in November 2008. As the company name suggests, Smart Sign Solutions is all about signs and finding your way in buildings. Seems nothing special, right?

But, the signing and “wayfinding” is done in a whole new way:
it’s all personal!
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Last Wednesday evening, Thursday and Friday, October 7/8/9, a new group of 25 VLT-entrepreneurs had a date with destiny… the stockmarket!?

In two days the group got lots of information to start their future as owners of a high-tech high-potential venture.

• On Thursday Pim Paffen, from CDC Nederland, explained the use of an assessment and a personal development plan in the personal development training. In the evening the VentureClass by Paula Englis was on the agenda.
• Saras Sarasvathy, Associate Professor (Darden Graduate Business School, University of Virginia, USA) was in action on Friday with “Strategy Process: Planning vs emergence” and “Equity ownership and control issues” as topics for the training. See Saras work on a short video.

According to some of the ‘fresh’ entrepreneurs the first days were “intense” and some “hard work” to begin with. But VLT made sure it was not without the necessary amount of food, fun & friends.

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