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✨ We successfully kicked off the new year with t

✨ We successfully kicked off the new year with the ACE Online Info Session last week! Missed it? Not to worry:

On February 3, team ACE will organize the second Online Info Session of the year. Are you interested in starting or growing your own tech or science based venture? The ACE Incubation Program will help you make this dream come true within 9 weeks. During the Online Info Session, we're here to answer all your questions and to take away all your doubts.

Looking forward to virtually see you there! Register via the #linkinbio

📝 The ACE List is back! We're proud and excit

📝 The ACE List is back!

We're proud and excited to introduce you to our awesome startup founders. The ACE List is a regular installment where startup teams from the ACE Incubation Program introduce themselves and share a little insight into their startup journey!

First up: Micky Chen and Linky Chen, founders of @miniteworks Read more via the #linkinbio

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📣 Calling all ACE startups and alumni! Do you n

📣 Calling all ACE startups and alumni! Do you need a flexible hand with content creation, back office tasks or research? 🌱 Want to grow faster while keeping your burn rate low? @miniteworks can help!

🍀 In the spirit of supporting the ACE community, ACE startup Minite is offering their best and brightest freelance student talent, cherry picked for you at zero service fee. If you're happy, they'd love to feature your startup on their website as a customer success story!

📩 This offer exclusively applies to the ACE community/ecosystem. If you're interested simply email ACEDEAL to micky@minite.works and they'll reach out to you asap!

🚀 ACE startup Lalaland.ai made it to DutchNews.

🚀 ACE startup Lalaland.ai made it to DutchNews.nl!

If clothing retailers featured models that looked like you, would you be more inclined to make a purchase? According to founders Michael Musandu and Ugnius Rimsa "It’s time to stop selling a dream and start selling reality". The two entrepreneurs founded software startup Lalaland in 2019 after meeting on campus at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Read more about Lalaland's success via the #linkinbio

📣 Are you curious about entrepreneurship and do

📣 Are you curious about entrepreneurship and do you want to know what it takes to start your own company?

Sign up for the Explore Entrepreneurship PhD course: a three-day entrepreneurship program initiated by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam), IXA Innovation Exchange Amsterdam and executed by ACE.

The program offers a unique opportunity to learn the basics of venture creation and to explore ways to transform your innovation into a business idea. The program is open to PhDs at VU and teams will be formed during the program.

Apply now via the #linkinbio

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💥 Yesterday we festively kicked off 2021 with 3

💥 Yesterday we festively kicked off 2021 with 30 startup founders, scale-up founders and corporate innovators. Corporate Innovation Day is a wrap!

During a lively panel discussion with panelists Max Kranendijk (Lead Open Innovation at @rabobank ), René Boerdijk (Purchase Director at @amsterdam_umc ), Rick van 't Hof (Innovation Scout at @kpn ) and Loren Kruseman (EPD and eHealth at @olvgamsterdam ), the startups and scale-ups learned how innovation is being driven within these corporates and more importantly: how to get a foot in the door themselves.

A recap of the tips & tricks that were shared:
🚀 A collaboration should be equally beneficial for both the corporate as the startup: your solution should be solving their challenge.
🚀 Make sure you're pitching to the right person within the organization to avoid being sent from pillar to post. Research is key!
🚀 Keep your pitch short, snappy and interesting. In times where our screen time is going through the roof, a short video works best.

Thanks for your time, energy and support all!

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🏆 Starting the new year with festive news! ACE

🏆 Starting the new year with festive news! ACE Alumnus @digi.bio won the Academic Startup Competition 2020 and we're incredibly proud!

"We are delighted to be selected as winners in the Academic Startup Competition 2020. None of this would have been possible without ACE (Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship) and SOSV which believed in our ambitious project from the beginning and the continuous support of Amsterdam Venture Studios, IXA Innovation Exchange Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) for enabling innovation to be nurtured and scaled in the ecosystem they have created inside the VU campus. We also thank the amazing team of people that make Digi.Bio such an incredible company, every day pushing boundaries to make biology programmable!"

Congratulations on winning this prestigious academic award, team. Keep up the good work in the new year!

More info: https://digi.bio/

💥 Team ACE wishes you a prosperous, successful

💥 Team ACE wishes you a prosperous, successful and innovative new year! 💥

🥂 Still working on your New Year's Resolutions

🥂 Still working on your New Year's Resolutions for 2021? We have a suggestion to add to it...

On January 6, team ACE will start the new year fresh with our first Online Info Session of the year. Are you interested in starting or growing your own tech or science based venture? The ACE Incubation Program will help you make this dream come true within 9 weeks. During the Online Info Session, we're here to answer all your questions and to take away all your doubts.

Looking forward to virtually cheers to the new year with you!
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