According to Neelie Kroes Netherlands is also joined by her to the ‘Champions League’ of countries with favorable startup environment. Experts think very differently about it. ,, There is still much “
Startups -. Start-ups with innovative, often online related idea, want to conquer the world – find are hot all week. Amsterdam and elsewhere in our country events site to promote the Netherlands as host country for start-ups.
That’s going very well, startup ambassador Neelie Kroes stated at the opening of her own Startup Fest Europe. the Netherlands is no half years – coincidentally the time when she startup ambassador – the European summit stormed to a new ranking our country fourth after London, Berlin and Paris
Innovation Professor Henk Volberda paints a different picture… Yes, we are moving forward, thanks to the work of Kroes, but we are not there yet. ” He points to another list, namely the world ranking of Compass which our country with its startup ecosystem only 19th state.
Success Ratio
Volberda who does a lot of research into our business, calls the low success rate of the current generation of startups as a major shortcoming. ,, Netherlands has many entrepreneurs, 127,000 people are starting a year a private company. “
However, mainly self-employed providing services. Only 200 are a true startup with an innovative idea to be magnified., , and only 10 percent grows into a successful business, the others stay small or go bankrupt. “
That’s low, Sweden or Denmark for example, have a much higher success factor. ,, There is little knowledge of how to run a business and make greater. “That often fail, especially further to do with money, Volberda says. ,, Banks keep money in their pockets.”
Tech Journalist Eva Falcon – she lived two years in Silicon Valley and wrote a book about it – see lack of finance as well as the main cause. ,, In the US businesses by the large number of investors to grow much faster. “
Due to lack of money ‘flights’ many Dutch startups as they go” upscale “to the US, including London and Berlin popular. So left 3D printing company Shapeways Netherlands and moved to Silicon Valley because there could fetch much more fresh capital.
Mentality
Yet it is also a shortage of mentality, says Falcon Not for nothing, successful technology companies – Facebook, Apple, Airbnb, Uber, Google – nearly all from the US ,, Americans dare to think big, we should do well say. we are the largest. world rather than just the Netherlands. ” That it can in the Low Countries, prove Adyen, Booking.com and more ago TomTom.
She points to Hyves, ten years ago as popular social media. ,, Hyves grew significantly faster than Facebook. Only Zuckerberg managed to pick up a few hundred million here and Hyves only received a few million. The new Uber had here may come from, the ideas are there. “It would save a lot if our major businesses are investing in startups. ,, In the US it is quite normal to give back money into startups, moreover, is that good fo innovation. “
Online auction Catawiki shows that Dutch startups can indeed gain scale. Meanwhile, the Assen business in many European countries active Catawiki employs hundreds of employees and attract the online auctions millions of visitors. Last year brought founder René Schoenmakers July € 75 million by US investor Lead Edge Capital.
pecking order
He still sees a big omission. ,, There are far too few programmers in the Netherlands, we have difficulty finding them. “At school, children should be encouraged much more. Technicians are additionally here often lower in the pecking order than managers, while a technically is very important for a startup educated person to have in the core team. ”
As an entrepreneur, he still has the necessary advice to Minister Henk Kamp (EZ): come with an alternative to the existing subsidy. ,, That cost a lot of time and effort, you should fill out paperwork or apply for a grant consultant. That distracts from your core business. “
Catawiki foreman also see too little enthusiastic staff at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Chamber of Commerce ,, Often people with zero business experience and must advise me. “
at the same time there is indeed progress, take the rules that talented foreign investors the government granted a residence permit for one year to set up a company.
On the Dutch Prince Constantijn for startup environment as new ambassador to make the job really to the top. About four years must be our country in the top five of the prestigious Compass ranking, wants to Minister Kamp of Economic Affairs.
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