3 min. blog - 10 October 2019 Female Founder Force – Buenos Aires Four countries, forty pitches, four finalists, one winner. The Next Women Female Founder Force Program in a nutshell. For the seventh consecutive year in a row we are scouting the most promising women-led companies for our training and pitching program. And this year we're even flying overseas to do so. First stop in the program: Buenos Aires.
5 min. blog - 10 October 2019 Will you be my… co-founder? We believe in bringing people with complementary skills together and providing them with a solid support system to ensure the best companies are formed through the program. Most startups fail because of the wrong founding team. Fundamentally, the foundation for starting a business on the right food is the core team and the skills they collectively bring together.
3 min. blog - 10 October 2019 How the role of a CTO changes as a startup evolves Chris Brooke, CTO at Hopster and Advisor at Antler in London, shared his insights about becoming a CTO. Having gone through these stages himself, he explains how the role of the CTO evolves from finding the idea to building a product for the global market.
2 min. blog - 09 September 2019 The pipeline exists In the conversation around funding and specifically the funding of women-led and diverse teams, one of the most-heard arguments is that there's not enough opportunity in the pipeline to diversify the investments. However, this chart shows just the tip of the iceberg of how much opportunity there is in the Dutch ecosystem.
3 min. blog - 09 September 2019 One team at a time, enabling women to build businesses and get funded Currently, only 2% of all Dutch VC capital is invested in female-founded or female co-founded companies. While recent policy changes and the widespread adoption of HR frameworks are an improvement (and I am certainly not criticising that) it cannot be argued that women are underrepresented in the tech space and more can always be done to right this wrong.
8 min. blog - 09 September 2019 An open letter to all entrepreneurs CEO and co-founder of the female outdoor clothing brand Astrid Wild, Maria Paulsson Rönnbäck, shares useful tips and advice on how others should go about selecting your co-founder when building a startup.
3 min. blog - 09 September 2019 TheNextWomen100 2019 – “You cannot become, what you cannot see” Last night, the international network TheNextWomen brought together the 100 most successful businesswomen in the Netherlands for the eighth time during TheNextWomen100. In the Empire of the Emperor in Amsterdam, the list of the 100 most successful female entrepreneurs of this year was presented.
4 min. blog - 09 September 2019 DE VISIE ACHTER ONZE REBRANDING Vera Westenberg is co-founder van Marketing Schmarketing, de strategische brand studio waarmee The Next Women een partnership is aangegaan. Na de herpositionering van het merk en het nieuwe webdesign gelanceerd te hebben zijn we benieuwd naar haar visie achter deze nieuwe richting.
6 min. blog - 09 September 2019 7 WAYS TO INCREASE YOUR STARTUP SKILLS. Although you might believe that you are ready to start your business now, there is no harm in acquiring extra skills to complement your current knowledge, allow you to get more experience, and enable you to perform new tasks that you may have been previously unable to. To become more empowered to start your own business and prepare you for the trials that you may face, here are some of the best ways that you can increase your skillset before you open your start-up.
