This yearās Summer Start-up Tour āSSUP! kicked off in June for the fourth year in a row. Each year, the Hoffmann Institute collaborates with āSSUP! students to support INSEAD MBA students touring global start-up ecosystems to learn from entrepreneurs at the cutting edge of business and walk-the-talk in their own impact projects. In 2022, the... Continue Reading →
A Trip Inside the Amsterdam Startup Ecosystem
This blog details how Team Eternal Students planned the Ed-tech SSUP tour to Amsterdam, and what we learned about the Amsterdam startup ecosystem. WithāÆover 2.7KāÆstartups at different stages, Amsterdam is ranked as the third tech hub in Europe. With a long history of trade, innovation, and culture, a trip to Amsterdam was an easy pick... Continue Reading →
We spent 4 weeks exploring the metaverse ecosystem in Europe and here’s what we found: Part 2
In case you missed it, hereās Part 1 with our first 5 findings about the metaverse ecosystem. Now letās continue! 6. Where's the money going? In the first 5 months of 2022, over $120 billion was invested in metaverse technologies and infrastructure, but where did that go exactly? VC investment trends indicate that there is... Continue Reading →
We spent 4 weeks exploring the metaverse ecosystem in Europe and here’s what we found: Part 1
āØMetaverseāØ. . . it's got to mean something more than various iterations of Mark Zuckerberg's avatar, right? As part of INSEAD's SSUP, we ā Chelcie Poole, Nikita Bokil and Cameron Smith ā formed a team with the mission of cutting through the hype and exploring how the metaverse and extended reality (XR) ecosystem is developing... Continue Reading →
Turn news into actions: Owlin
Team Circuit Connector had the pleasure to interview Hauke van der Meer, Owlin's Buy-side Manager to know about Owlin's innovation and its collaboration with large organizations. About Owlin Owlin gathers more than 3 million global news sources using artificial intelligence and machine learning to monitor, analyze, and visualize different market trends, risks and opportunities.... Continue Reading →
Digital, Gaming, Blockchain and Fashion?
Thursday last week we spent the entire day exploring Fashion Tech Conference inĀ Berlin. It is an event solely focussing on the intersection of Tech and Fashion organised by Premium Group who is also organising the two fairs NEONYT and Premium. The conference showcased a number of new tech innovations in fashion that aim to push... Continue Reading →
ALT FIN ā Never too old to be an Entrepreneur
Team Saaseads interview with Machiel Jansen Schoonhoven from ALT FIN. ALT FIN is all about providing loans via funds and fintech platforms for corporates and SMEs. When and how did you get into the whole start-up scene āItās never too late to start a start-upā After 30 years in Investment Banking, Machiel saw the struggles... Continue Reading →
StuDocu offers you all the study resources you need to score BIGā¦. On your exam of course!
Team SaaSEADās interview with Marnix Broer, Co-founder of Studocu ā a platform for students to find the study resources shared by their fellow students. By just typing the name of their university, students can access summaries of books, past exams, and tons of lecture notes. The idea of a student note-sharing platform was born, perhaps... Continue Reading →
De Energiebespaarders ā saving a LOOOT of energy
An interview by 53°N with Jeffry Broek and Mark Zaal from De Energiebespaarders (The Energy Savers) ā your (digital) partner in making your home sustainable, as easy as online shopping. It is another great day for solar power in Amsterdam when we meet the two founders of De Energiebespaarders, two old study friends from Delft... Continue Reading →
AmberScript: Why take notes manually when a state-of-the-art technology can transcribe your audio automatically
TeamĀ SaaSEAD'sĀ interviewĀ with Peter-PaulĀ founder and CEO ofĀ AmberScriptĀ and an INSEAD alumniĀ class of '17 July Located atĀ VentureĀ BuildersĀ in Amsterdam,Ā AmberScriptĀ uses state-of-the-art speech recognition technology to quickly transcribe your audio automatically. Basically, the technology is composed of 2 parts, the first part is the speech to text engine, which automatically transforms your audio to text in 29 languages. The second is an... Continue Reading →