How to develop Your StartupCity

Ruben Nieuwenhuis - StartupAmsterdam

@rubenswindow www.startupamsterdam.org

What recommendation do you have for your

StartupCity?

1. Be Proud(and tell the world about

your City)

Happiness Professor (S*cks big time)

http://www.uadn.net/files/ua_hightech.pdf

Courtesy

• Unfair Advantages: Testbed, LaunchPad

• Innovation Capital of Europe

• 2nd place EDCi

• 4th place Compass

2. Start Collaborating( as a Country)

3. Think Startup Ecosystem

( Not IT sector)

Startup, Scale up or Tech Company?

4. Think Distributed(internationally)

capitalweek.amsterdam

5. Duplicate(steal ideas from other

cities:))

startupinresidence.com

Duplicate

LaunchPad Network CapitalWeek

BSSA STiR

TechConnect Etc.

Welcome to share, co-create, partner.

6. Ask an Entrepreneur(in Residence)

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7. Don’t be naive (but stay focused on the future and opportunities)

Brexit, Financial Crisis, War-zones, upcoming tech-bubble?, IS, Trump, etc.

8. Be a Partner (and stay one)

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9. Join & Create Networks (yep, the network effect

rocks)

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10. Work like hell (It increases the odds)

- Elon Musk

What recommendation do you have for your

StartupCity?

@rubenswindow www.startupamsterdam.org