Episodes

  • Interview with Sjoerd van Berkel

    Interview with Sjoerd van Berkel
    Sep 3 2021
    Earlier on, I had a great chat with Sjoerd van Berkel, MSc in Strategic Entrepreneurship & Finance alumnus from the RSM and co-founder of Fit For Me. Fit For Me has become the global market leader in nutritional supplements for people who have undergone weight loss surgery. In a remarkably similar way to YourSurprise the two founders of Fit For Me, Sjoerd van Berkel and Simon Hamer, started out in an attic room. During our talk, Sjoerd reflected upon his study time at the EUR, the founding journey of Fit For Me and discussed how he balances his work-life priorities.
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    51 mins
  • Interview with Anoesjka Imambaks

    Interview with Anoesjka Imambaks
    Aug 19 2021
    Anoesjka Imambaks is executive director at Venture Cafe Rotterdam and alumnus from the EUR where she studied public administration from 2002 until 2007. During our conversation, Anoesjka elaborated upon starting her career in public policy, why she co-created a valorisation program to boost the Dutch startup ecosystem, shared how she became an entrepreneur herself as founder of Maid at Home and discussed her main agenda as executive director at Venture Cafe Rotterdam.
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    42 mins
  • Interview with Igor Belos

    Interview with Igor Belos
    Jul 29 2021
    I had a great chat with Igor Belos, MSc in Strategic Entrepreneurship alumnus from the RSM and co-founder of Belgrade Language School. During our talk, Igor reflected on his study time at the EUR, how applying key learnings from his Master studies contributed to the growth of Belgrade Language School and concluded by giving entrepreneurial pieces of advice to students.
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    36 mins
  • Interview with Wouter de Vries

    Interview with Wouter de Vries
    Jul 8 2021
    Wouter de Vries is an alumnus from the MSc Entrepreneurship at the RSM and co-founder of YourSurprise. What started out in an attic above an Omoda store in 2005, YourSurprise has become the largest online personalised gift shop. During our chat, Wouter touched upon the initial founding days of YourSurprise, why the founders (Wouter and Gerbrand) bootstrapped their business, what major pivots they made when impressively scaling their business and YourSurprise's highly entrepreneurial, family-like company culture (in the words of Wouter: ‘if you are good for the people, the people are good for you’). We recorded our conversation from YourSurprise's beautiful head office in Zierikzee. Enjoy listening and get inspired!
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    32 mins
  • Interview with Thom Uildriks

    Interview with Thom Uildriks
    Jul 2 2021

    Thom Uildriks is an IBA alumnus from the RSM and co-founder of Moja. Moja is a high-quality, sustainable underwear brand which has the mission of making good hygiene normal. In our interview, we reflected upon how Thom's childhood years in Brazil shaped his entrepreneurial vision, reflected on key highlights from Thom's study time at the EUR, discussed the founding journey of Moja and the rationale behind Moja’s impactful business model.

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    35 mins
  • Interview with Laura Di Santolo & Diederick van der Wijk

    Interview with Laura Di Santolo & Diederick van der Wijk
    Jun 13 2021
    Laura and Diederick are co-founders of Forward Incubator and alumni from the MSc CEMS program at the Rotterdam School of Management. Forward Incubator is a non-profit organisation that offers newcomers the opportunity to obtain funding, training and expertise for their starting businesses in the Netherlands. During our conversation, we talked at length about their founding journey of Forward Incubator, their track record and future ambitions with Forward Incubator.
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    34 mins
  • Interview with Micky Chen

    Interview with Micky Chen
    Jun 4 2021
    Micky Chen is an IBA Alumnus (2010 - 2013) and founder of Minite.Works: an online platform connecting students with companies of all sizes and industries, helping them to outsource flexible, skill-based work. During our conversation, Micky elaborated upon her journey as a highly successful serial entrepreneur, what challenges she had to overcome and the founding / scaling phase of Minite.Works. Enjoy listening!
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    46 mins
  • Interview with Nikos Nakos

    Interview with Nikos Nakos
    May 28 2021
    Nikos Nakos is co-founder of IamExpat Media and alumnus from the MSc in Strategic Entrepreneurship (2007 - 2008). Nikos elaborated on his key memories from his student time at the Erasmus University and explained how he (and his co-founders) transformed IamExpat Media as a ‘side project’ into the leading online publisher and event organizer for the expat community in the Netherlands and Germany.
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    48 mins