Entrepreneurship news for students
There is a lot going on within our university when it comes to entrepreneurship. Keep up to date with the latest news about entrepreneurship.
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Enactus Tilburg & Friends Podcast #2: Tom Leenders, co-founder of zero waste headphone company Gerrard Street
04th January 2022In this second episode of the Enactus Tilburg & Friends video/podcast, the students of Enactus Tilburg University sat down for a conversation with Tom Leenders, co-founder of circular headphone company Gerrard Street. The conversation spanned topics such as Gerrard Street's mission to reduce e-waste, the challenges of launching a physical product, the tough and messy process of product validation, and Tom's learnings along the way.
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Students Committed to Sustainable and Responsible Entrepreneurship
23rd December 2021Tilburg University encourages student entrepreneurship and sustainable entrepreneurship. These aspects came together in the second Tilburg University Challenge with the theme: social responsibility. Two teams took home the three cash prizes. How are things now with the socially responsible clothing brand Bigger Picture Clothing and AnDa, the healthy drink produced from residual waste? Tilburg University Magazine talked to winner of the Business Ready Award and Audience Award, Freek van Litsenburg (23) and with Anouk van Anrooij (24) and Daniel Gelsing (23) who won the Ideation Award.
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Social responsibility central theme of winners Tilburg University Challenge 2021
10th December 2021The Tilburg University Challenge 2021 has awarded all three prizes for the best business plan proposed by student teams to socially responsible ideas. During a livestream event on December 9th the Ideation Award went to Anouk van Anrooij and Daniel Gelsing for their healthy and fruity drink that is also sustainable. The Business Ready Award and the Audience Award went to Freek van Litsenburg, who, with Bigger Picture Clothing, sells clothing that is both sustainable in production and has a large social impact.
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Belgian broadcaster TRIXXO enters niche market for young talent with acquisition of JAMwerkt
09th July 2021The originally Belgian broadcaster TRIXXO has strengthened its position in the Netherlands by acquiring JAMwerkt, a fast-growing online broadcasting platform in North Brabant. In the past 9.5 years, JAMwerkt has grown into a specialist in the mediation of young talent from the region. The platform is now active in 2/3 of Noord-Brabant and with this acquisition, this growth will only be accelerated.
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Recap Venture Visionaries
03rd July 2021Together with Avans, Buas, Fontys, HAS, JADS, TU/e, Station88 and Braventure, we present a series of events where inspiring entrepreneurial topics are discussed and interesting companies, founded by Dutch Entrepreneurs, will be interviewed. All partners have committed to this series of monthly entrepreneurship events. Each month a different partner will be the host of the event. These events are accessible online to all students and other people interested.
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HalloLex & VDT Advocaten launch their own podcast "De Blonde & De Bef"
18th April 2021De Blonde & De Bef is the biweekly podcast of HalloLex & VDT Advocaten with one main subject within Dutch law per series, highlighted from different perspectives in the separate episodes.
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Student Mariasole talks about her experience with the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs programme
13th April 2021We spoke to student Mariasole Colombo about her experience with the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs programme. In this interview, she told us her interesting story and gave us some insights about entrepreneurship that you would not immediately think of.
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Tilburg University and Station88 are teaming up
09th April 2021Tilburg University and Station88 are teaming up and have signed a partnership agreement. Successful entrepreneurship is not something you can do alone.