Magazine: Friday, 17 September 2021
Scale-ups. How do they do it? We talk to successful scale-up entrepreneurs like Brent Wissink from Just Eat Takeaway.com and Michiel Muller from Picnic in our latest issue of Discovery Magazine. We also draw on the expertise of Constantijn van Oranje from accelerator Teachleap.nl.
In a perfect world, the Netherlands would encourage a scale-up entrepreneurial atmosphere in which young companies could thrive. Is the Netherlands this kind of place? Constantijn van Oranje, Martin van Luxemburg, Justin Jansen & Tom Mom discuss.
Marcia Goddard, Elbrich Batstra, Magdalena Cholakova and Suzana Varga discuss the challenges presented by rapidly growing companies and how they might be effectively addressed.
E-commerce websites may look more or less the same as they did 20 years ago, but there has been a revolution behind the screen, according to Anneke Keller and Ting Li.
JustEat Takeaway has scaled up fast in recent years. RSM’s Justin Jansen and Tom Mom spoke with Brent Wissink, CFO of Just Eat Takeaway.com and who has been involved since 2011, to find out why the company’s approach has been so successful.
In 2002, René de Koster wrote a paper that showed why an online grocery business could never be more profitable than a regular supermarket. Today, Michiel Muller's Picnic is doing its best to prove him wrong. Niels Agatz joins their discussion.
Dirk Schoenmaker and Mark Weustink discuss the issues of sustainability, sustainable finance and sustainable investment and their role in the scaling up of smaller businesses.
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