Successful online entrepreneur Marco Aarnink reflects on new startup idea Wednesday next week, the LOEY Award will be given to the best Dutch online entrepreneur. This award was initiated by VC firms Van den Ende & Deitmers and Peak Capital in 2010. Last year’s winner was M...
Scaling Up with Robotic Birds of Prey Nico Nijenhuis is CEO of a late-stage startup called Clear Flight Solutions . Based at in Enschede, this team is one of many successful ideas born at the University of Twente. In conversation with Sta...
Talent spotting for the next great startup teams Tapping into international expertise already here “Smart people are the best at spotting other smart people,” says Guus Frericks CEO of Startupbootcamp HighTechXL. “And as our next accelerator program...
3D printing leader Shapeways raises US$30.5 million Series D round 3D printing giants Shapeways have just announced they closed a new US$30.5 million (EUR27.2m) Series D funding round. The scale-up’s SEC filing states the full round will eventually close at an even h...
Peak Capital launches new tech fund of 12 million euro Investment fund Peak Capital has opened up a new fund containing 12 million euro for tech startups. The money must be invested in at least ten promising companies. Peak Capital already opened two fund...
Cofely partners with Dutch startup community Technology services company Cofely, a subsidiary of energy giant Engie, announced yesterday that it’s going to collaborate with a number of actors in the Dutch startup ecosystem to foster open innovat...
Karma: for the love of internet It is lunch time in New York, dinner time in the Netherlands. My Skype conversation with Steven van Wel, one of the founders of Karma, keeps him away from his "delicious panini". He doesn't seem to mi...
How Fileboard set foot in Silicon Valley Fileboard is founded by Dutch entrepreneurs and has its headquarters in Mountain View, Silicon Valley. How to set foot on the ‘holy ground for high-tech companies’? And what are the lessons learnt fro...
Authentication as a service It’s a sunny Wednesday morning when I meet Menno Stijl for coffee on the outskirts of The Hague. It’s the city where his startup Authasas is based. Authasas is by no means the first successful venture...
Disable Strict Mode for MySQL 5.7 on Ubuntu 16.04 I was working on an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server with Virtualmin, Nginx, PHP 7 and MySQL 5.7 when I uncounted an error related to MySQL. Few MySQL queries failed and application I was working on displayed ...
Installing mailparse php7 mbstring error You should be able to download the mailparse source, comment out the test for HAVE_MBSTRING in mailparse.c (around line 34), and build it normally. Here’s what I did in Ubuntu 16.04 (assume ‘sudo’ whe...
Setup Linux Container With LXC On Ubuntu 16.04 Linux containers (LXC), is an open source, lightweight operating system-level virtualization software that helps us to run a multiple isolated Linux systems (containers) on a single Linux host. LXC pr...