Interesting Links

In this section you will find several interesting links related to innovation and entrepreneurship, including personal comments:

Innovation websites: 

  • Website of Innovation Management: http://www.innovationmanagement.se/ This is well-known Swedisch innovation site with many blogs and videos about innovation related topics.
  • Website of MindTheProduct community of product managers: http://www.mindtheproduct.com/ Has some interesting blogs about real life experiences of product managers.
  • Website of Product Focus: https://www.productfocus.com/  This is a company which provides tools and training to product managers. On the website you will find interesting charts, a book list and relevant links.
  • Website of Strategyn: https://www.strategyn.com/ Strategyn is a company which develops and promotes the Outcome Driven Innovation process. This process ties customer-defined metrics to the job-to-be-done, making innovation measurable and predictable. The process employs qualitative, quantitative, and market segmentation methods that reveal hidden opportunities for growth.
  • Website of Startupjuncture: https://www.startupjuncture.com/  Startupjuncture is the online magazin with news and blogs about the Dutch startup scene.
  • Website of Techcrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/  TechCrunch is a leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.

Innovator blogs:

  • Website of Steve Blank: http://www.steveblank.com/ Steve Blank is an American entrepreneur and teacher, who manages to bridge the gap between business and academia.
  • Blog of Andrew Chen: https://andrewchen.co/ As an investment partner at Andreessen Horowitz, his blogs focus on consumer products, marketplaces, and bottoms up SaaS. Previously, he worked for Uber.
  • Blog of Eric Ries: http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/ Eric Ries is an American entrepreneur, who is known for his book ‘The Lean Startup’ and the Lean Startup Movement, which is active all over the world.

Marketing sites:

  • Website of NPS community: http://www.netpromoter.com  Provides background information about NPS, training materials and benchmark information.
  • Website of Mat Shore: http://www.matshore.com/   Mat Shore is a top proposition marketeer, who is a trainer and consultant to many well-known corporations. On his site you will find several educational videos about proposition related topics.

Incubators and startups:

  • Website of Techleap:  https://www.techleap.nl  Techleap is the network for the startup ecosystem in The Netherlands.
  • Website of Yes!Delft: http://www.yesdelft.nl/  Yes!Delft is one of the most successful high-tech business incubators in the Netherlands, with over 150 start-ups.
  • Website of the Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship Venture Lab: http://www.ace-venturelab.org/  This incubator is a combined initiative of 3 institutes of higher education in Amsterdam: the University of Amsterdam, the Vrije Universiteit and Hogeschool van Amsterdam.

Entrepreneurship education:

  • INSEAD Knowledge Blog: http://www.knowledge.insead.edu/blog/  Provides blogs of experts of INSEAD Business School, with fresh insights about a variety of business and entrepreneurship topics.
  • International Space University: http://www.isunet.edu/ The International Space University, located in Strasbourg, develops the future leaders of the world space community by providing interdisciplinary educational programs to students and space professionals in an international, intercultural environment.
  • MIT Sloan School of Management: https://www.mitsloan.mit.edu/ MIT Sloan is the business school of MIT and is a leader in education, research and publication of innovation and entrepreneurship related topics.
  • Singularity University: https://su.org/  Located in the Silicon Valley, Singularity University aims to educate, inspire and empower leaders to apply exponential technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges.
  • Stanford University’s Entrepreneurship Corner: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/ Stanford University is located in the heart of the Silicon Valley and is the breeding ground of many entrepreneurial activities. This site provides also a lot of video clips with presentations of prominent entrepreneurs and academia, who are active in the Silicon Valley.

Financing startups and scaleups: 

  • Subsidycloud: https://subsidycloud.com Subsidycloud (in Dutch) is the platform for government grants in The Netherlands. 
  • NPEX: https://www.npex.nl/ NPEX (in Dutch) is the stock exchange for scale-ups in The Netherlands.