Source to Success
Adyen is about to go live on Euronext, valued at approximately €7.1billion. An amazing accomplishment to achieve in only 12 years for a Dutch FinTech vendor. It is one of the few Dutch tech companies that actually made it to the Unicorn status in a time where there seems to be plenty of promise, but […] Read more »
Over the past 2 years The METISfiles has published the Tech Fab 30 and 50. Looking beyond the cool factor we wanted to take a more thorough look at the scalability of these cool tech vendors, in particular software vendors. Especially as the Ministry of Economic Affairs in September announced an additional fund of €100M […] Read more »
In a recent post we discussed the Dutch startup environment, looking at whether the necessary conditions have been created within the Netherlands for startups to thrive and eventually become a Unicorn like Uber, Airbnb, Snapchat or Pinterest, or, in Europe, Skype, Spotify, Rovio and Dutch fintech company Adyen. Though these companies have no trouble finding […] Read more »
StartupDelta is almost at the end of its planned time to exist. In June the platform should have attracted a sufficient amount of traction to make it self sustainable. StartupDelta has had a very brief time to achieve very big goals. Within 18 months it aimed to move up the ranking scale and become part […] Read more »
Back in the days, a (semi-) professional football players post-football career was not as easy as it is now. After their active football career many went back to whatever trade they learned at school: plumber, electrician, clerk, etc. Some had the gift of ‘seeing’ the game and became coach or trainer. And there was […] Read more »
Rankings and scores always capture the imagination of people. They give you a bird’s eye view on a specific topic, a summary of the key results on a particular theme and therefore your best conversation guide at parties. For people that are directly involved in the specific topic there is a more important reason to […] Read more »