Van verschillende kanten bereikten ons vragen over de betrokkenheid van VentureLab Twente in het met geruchten van fraude omgeven faillissement van een investeerder in het Enschedese crossmediale technologiebedrijf “Service2Media”. O.a. de regionale krant TC Tubantia maakte daarvan melding. Om aan elk misverstand een eind te maken: het failliete investeringsbedrijf is “Lab Venture Capital”. Er is geen relatie tussen VentureLab Twente en Lab Venture Capital.

The past few days there were rumors about VentureLab Twente being involved in a -possibly fraudulent- bankrupty affair of an investor in a media technology company from Enschede, “Service2Media”. The news appeared amongst others in the regional newspaper TC Tubantia. However this concerns a company called “Lab Venture Capital”. To prevent misunderstanding: there are no connections between VentureLab Twente and Lab Venture Capital.

“Accept that you win and lose” came first on the list of ten tips from Roel Pieper, followed by human factors like leadership, commitment and people quality or business factors like scalablity, multi-sourcing and the value stack. Pieper was the fifth VLT VentureClass speaker. The VLT VentureClasses are monthly, public evening sessions by internationally renowned speakers, on entrepreneurship-related themes. Pieper’s audience, well over 60 people, hung on his lips. Pieper also stressed the importance of networks, especially now when finance from banks for starting entrepreneurs is hard to come by. A lively discussion, that continued at the bar, ended the evening.

Fifteen participants from the “VLT summerschool 2009″ received their certificates from VLT’s training director, Jaap van Tilburg. Most summerschool students are international PhD students from the University of Twente. They were trained during 11 subsequent sessions in important topics such as managing people, principles of financial accounting and technology marketing & IP. Their ‘masterpiece’ is a business model, which they presented to VentureLab’s entrepreneurs during the final session of August 18.

VentureLab sponsored the introduction festivities by student’s association “Astatine” for new students of the University of Twente’s Bachelor Program “Advanced Technology”. An impression of a week of action, fun and dance!

The VentureLab team invites you to its public training session and VLT VentureClass on August 24 and 25. You can join the VentureLab entrepreneurs on either August 24th or 25th , or on both days, or just attend the VLT VentureClass by Roel Pieper on Monday evening, August 24.