5. Start-Ups: Competitors or Monopoly?

5. Start-Ups: Competitors or Monopoly?

You’re walking in the grocery store, it’s been a while since you did groceries. You have to go to a meeting in 15 minutes so there is not much time to waste effort on what you take for breakfast tomorrow morning. Here is where traditional…

4. Start-Ups: Product vs. Business Design

4. Start-Ups: Product vs. Business Design

  “Design is creativity mixed with strategy” – Rob Curedale   “Design is not what it look like and feels like. Design is how it works.” – Steve Jobs   It is time for some story telling. Once upon a time there were 3 guys…

3. Start-Up: Million-Dollar Thinking

3. Start-Up: Million-Dollar Thinking

Stop right here. And think. Yes, start-ups have to move fast. And yes, the competition also moves fast. Start-ups have the advantage over large organizations that they can move fast, there is no bureaucratic hierarchy, and the risk stakes are much lower. The power of…

2. Start-Ups: The Million-Dollar Team

2. Start-Ups: The Million-Dollar Team

If you are reading this, then congratulations! As mentioned in the first blog post Start-Ups are all about not giving up on your idea! Showing courage, wanting to keep going, that’s where the amateurs drop out. If you haven’t read the first post, read it…

1. Start-Ups: That Million Dollar Idea

1. Start-Ups: That Million Dollar Idea

Starting a start-up. It is an idea that rises to the mind of many, is tried by many, is failed at by many, but these ideas can also change the mind of many. Probably once during a fun night with friends you together came up…

Phosphate Quota Troubles Dutch Farmers

Phosphate Quota Troubles Dutch Farmers

The Netherlands, a country famous for their liberal approach to social issues, tulips, windmills and of course cheese, now faces new issues due to an excess in phosphate-rich cow manure. As a (founding) member of the European Union (E.U.), the Netherlands, just like any other…

Multilingualism

Multilingualism

Multilingualism is the use of two or more languages. Nowadays, the vast majority of the Earth’s population is bilingual; more and more people speak at least three languages. To be considered multilingual, you do not have to have full proficiency in all languages- just enough…

Career options: Accountancy and the RA track

Career options: Accountancy and the RA track

As a graduate in International Business Administration, a lot of career options are still open for you. One of those options is Accountancy and its RA track. On the basis of 10 questions answered by Guus Lakerveld, we show what is possible with both.  Who are…

The Tale of the Oil Price

The Tale of the Oil Price

Oil. We’re all familiar with the dark, greasy, and of course valuable substance found under the earth’s crust; it’s one of the things that makes the world turn, figuratively speaking of course. Worldwide, approximately 90 million barrels (1 barrel is 159 liters) of crude oil are…

The Forever Oil Prices Battle

The Forever Oil Prices Battle

Why the oil price stays low for the coming years A further recovery in the oil price is expected to be still far away. After the massive drop in prices last year, oil prices reached the highest point in May since the slow recovery has…

Why invest in Colombia?

Why invest in Colombia?

In the past decade, Colombia’s economy has proven to be fairly stable and expanding. Historically, Colombia has been an agrarian economy but with the advancing 20th century, it has urbanized quickly. During the past century, Colombia’s market economy grew steadily with an average rate of…

Blatter 1. Football 0.

Blatter 1. Football 0.

After a tumultuous week, its another dark day in football history. Sepp Blatter has once again been elected for the presidency of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). Despite being opposed by HRH Prince Ali bin Al-Hussein of Jordan and not receiving enough votes…

Amazon revising tax policies

Amazon revising tax policies

Amazon is revising the way it reports earnings. From now on, the company will book it’s earning in the countries it actually earned them instead of channeling most of the earnings to Luxembourg. This is likely to be caused by the continuing scrutiny from the European…

Snapchat To Go Public

Snapchat To Go Public

You probably are all familiar with the popular picture/video sharing app called Snapchat. For those of you who are not; Snapchat allows you to take pictures/videos and send them to your friends who can view them for up to 10 seconds, after which the image…

Algramo: New Start-up, New Sustainability

Algramo: New Start-up, New Sustainability

Irritation runs through me as I try to get all the items on my grocery list. My 4 roommates decided that they want to eat spaghetti tonight, but the smallest pack I can find is 1 kg, enough for at least 10 people. Same problem…