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We're curating the most complete list of venture capital firms and startup incubators in the Netherlands on Dutch Brief 🇳🇱 Here's who we have so far... > Venture Capital Firms 💼 Rockstart Curiosity VC Cottonwood Technology Fund Forbion M Ventures Gilde Healthcare Prosus Ventures Exor Ventures Inkef DFF Ventures Graduate Ventures Innovation Quarter Urban Impact Ventures > Startup Incubators and Accelerators 🚀 Startupbootcamp ScaleNL YES!Delft Techleap Climate KIC PortXL Innokite Philips HealthWorks ScaleUpNation UtrechtInc Collider Accelerator InnoEnergy Who are we missing? Drop a comment or DM us and we'll add them. P.S. Thanks to Roko Karanusic from The Venturist for helping us with the list. P.P.S. We have 15 other sectors we're curating on this directory. Link below to the full list.

Here's how Dutch Brief became the go-to English news source for internationals in the Netherlands. No newsroom. No funding. One editor, modern tools, and a community-first approach to distribution. It started as a passion project in Groningen. Now it reaches readers across 50+ countries. https://lnkd.in/eSWPzfVz

I wrote a piece on Evernomic about how we scaled Dutch Brief to one of the most popular outlets in the Netherlands with no funding. From building a proprietary video editor for short-form content to pop up pizza stands, this article covers it all... When I moved to the Netherlands, I couldn't follow the news. Everything was in Dutch and the English sources used Google Translate. So Lisa Vinogradova and I started curating the most relevant stories in English for people like ourselves. It began on Substack with one article a day, zero budget, and an Instagram page. No newsroom. No funding. We didn't even look for sponsors. It was just a problem I wanted to solve for myself and a bet that others felt the same way. Today, we have millions of monthly readers, a growing team, and partnerships with incredible brands like neno and Signaal who want to reach the international community in the Netherlands. Over 20% of our audience isn't even based here, which says something about the appetite for accessible, English coverage of European countries. We built this with modern tools, a community-first approach, and a lot of patience. Read the full piece in the comments.

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I run newsletters on Substack, beehiiv and Ghost. All three, actively, right now. Each one earns its place for a different reason and each one frustrates me in its own way too. I wrote a full comparison of what I think about each of these platforms without picking favorites (ok maybe a little) It's around 2,500 words and covers growth, monetization, customization, deliverability, and the decisions we made across our portfolio. Link to the full version in the comments. Things like our signup conversions jumping 50% after switching one of our newsletters off Ghost (and why that doesn't mean Ghost is bad!!!) What beehiiv's ad network actually pays out. Why someone on Substack is making $400K a year with basically no processes. The short version: Substack is best if you want discovery and paid subscribers without thinking about much else. beehiiv is best if you're building a proper media business and need advanced growth and monetization tools built in. Ghost is best if your distribution is already strong and you care about web presence and deliverability as much as the numbers of subscribers. Hats off to Tyler Denk 🐝, John O'Nolan, Chris Best, and the rest of the teams at these platforms for pushing independent media forward. Would love to hear from anyone else who's used more than one of these. Curious if your experience lines up with mine. P.S. For anyone reading who works at one of these platforms, I left my suggestions and feedback on improvements that could be made too. Hope it helps!

A detailed comparison between Substack, beehiiv and Ghost based on our own experiences running newsletters on all three platforms. https://lnkd.in/ep3rWzjM

What it's actually like to maintain open-source software that millions of people use, as a solo developer, for over a decade. A conversation with Vladimir Kharlampidi, creator of Swiper. https://lnkd.in/d7UpiEse

Most buyers ask for the P&L. The serious ones ask for 30 days of support tickets, reply rates on comments, and what happens during the slow months. Here are 50 questions from the sell side that actually tell you something.  https://lnkd.in/emYiRfv9

A conversation with Andrew Gazdecki on what founders get wrong about selling a company, why fundamentals beat momentum, and how he built acquire.com after going through a broken process himself. https://lnkd.in/eH4GBGy3

Things that don't scale but matter anyway. There's a version of this essay that's about doing things that don't scale as a growth tactic. You've read it. I've read it. The idea is that you do the unscalable thing early like the handwritten notes, the personal onboarding calls, and then once it works, you systematize it and move on. This isn't that essay. This is about the things you do that actively resist scaling. The things that get more expensive, more inconvenient, and more irrational the bigger you get. And the argument isn't that you should do them anyway as some temporary phase. It's that protecting them might be the whole point. https://lnkd.in/eZDK4_Yg