Started 12 companies, Failed 4 times | Founder VentureRock #FlyingSegman
Utrecht
Joined February 2009
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Marc Wesselink retweeted
World's most bicycle-friendly cities 🚲:
1. 🇳🇱 Utrecht
2. 🇩🇪 Munster
3. 🇧🇪 Antwerp
4. 🇩🇰 Copenhagen
5. 🇳🇱 Amsterdam
6. 🇸🇪 Malmo
7. 🇨🇳 Hangzhou
8. 🇨🇭 Bern
9. 🇩🇪 Bremen
10. 🇩🇪 Hanover
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16. 🇨🇦 Montréal
19. 🇩🇪 Berlin
20. 🇦🇺 Melbourne
24. 🇯🇵 Tokyo
27. 🇫🇷 Nice
29. 🇨🇭 Geneva
30. 🇳🇿 Wellington
31. 🇪🇸 Seville
32. 🇫🇷 Paris
33. 🇦🇹 Vienna
35. 🇫🇮 Helsinki
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37. 🇨🇦 Vancouver
38. 🇨🇳 Beijing
39. 🇺🇸 San Francisco
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42. 🇲🇦 Casablanca
43. 🇸🇮 Ljubljana
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48. 🇮🇸 Reykjavik
52. 🇸🇬 Singapore
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86. 🇷🇺 Moscow
88. 🇹🇭 Bangkok
89. 🇨🇴 Madellín
90. 🇳🇬 Lagos
Marc Wesselink retweeted
We were competing against Blockbuster.
They were doing $6 Billion per year. They had 60,000 employees. They had 9,000 stores. Even the idea of taking them on was crazy.
But that's what an entrepreneur does.
They do the thing that everyone says will never work..
Marc Wesselink retweeted
Here is what a lot of impatient / non-technical VCs and business people under appreciate
👇👇👇
It takes time, often YEARS, to build any interesting, sophisticated, enterprise technology.
Why?!
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Marc Wesselink retweeted
1. Lets start with the obvious:
If technology is easy to build then everyone can and will build it -- market would immediately get very crowded and VCs would feel that.
By definition, interesting software technology is not easy it is HARD.
Marc Wesselink retweeted
Senegal is in the Top 5 in terms of funding raised by African startups in 2021! Congrats to our alumni @biggiebasse91 & @yobanteYES for their efforts which contributed to this listing. The ecosystem is bursting with potential & our campus in Dakar will be a stepping stone
Marc Wesselink retweeted
📰 Equidam Monthly - November
• 📢 - Trends in the startup and venture capital world
• 🚶 - Advice from founders, investors and experts
• 🏃 - Fundraising news, acceleration opportunities
Read the full newsletter here:
➡ mailchi.mp/04383607358e/equi…
#Startups #Fundraising #VC
Marc Wesselink retweeted
Venturerock: Reshaping Venture Capital To Boost the Odds 🚀
➡️ equidam.com/venturerock-resh…
Our partner @venturerock is helping founders focus on building, not fundraising. Find out how, and our part in that, in our conversation with Co-Founder @marcwes.
#Startups #Fundraising #VC
Marc Wesselink retweeted
It's a mistake to treat investors' reasons for rejecting you as a guide to what you need to focus on, for three separate reasons: (a) much of the time they're lying, (b) when they're not, they're often mistaken, and (c) fundraising is not the primary goal anyway.
In sequence to the article on quotenet – at Utrecht, The Netherlands
Marc Wesselink retweeted
'#Germany 🇩🇪 and #Europe overall host much #industry of global importance that can and should benefit from disruptive technological developments like #IoT - this is where @nbt_ag enters the stage offering a hand to #companies, and #entrepreneurs alike.' bit.ly/HaraldZappT
Politiek en pers kijken weg van wangedrag Marokkaanse reljongeren rtlnieuws.nl/economie/column… – at Eindhoven, Nederland
Marc Wesselink retweeted
We're proud to see the Dutch Ecosystem rank #3 in Eu & #12 in 🌎 in the Startup Genome Ranking against 300 others. Rising again for the 3rd year running!
Now is the time to invest in our future by investing in tech.
Download the report buff.ly/3dBc2cW
Marc Wesselink retweeted
We are very fortunate to have 2 municipalities onboard for our Disrupt COVID-19 Virtual Hackathon. The first being Emfuleni Local Municipality! Check out their website for news and other info: emfuleni.gov.za
@UKSATechHub #dcmstechhubs #sbcafritech
Marc Wesselink retweeted
What % of Company Founders owned at IPO👇
Apple- 37%
Amazon- 47%
Google- 31%
Facebook- 21%
Square- 24%
Tesla- 29%
Spotify- 39%
Snapchat- 37%
Atlassian- 75%
Salesforce- 32%
Shopify- 15%
Dropbox- 36%
Twilio- 12%
MongoDB- 13%
ZenDesk- 7%
Box- 4%
Notice something?👀
Marc Wesselink retweeted
We are excited to announce that together with @UKSATechHub, we are launching a Virtual Hackathon to disrupt COVID-19! We are calling innovators to address key challenges in the informal economy.
Apply now: forms.gle/kABasD4XgSHDDyVj7 #dcmstechhubs #sbcafritech
