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🤔 Always wondered what ACE is about and how we

🤔 Always wondered what ACE is about and how we can support you and your entrepreneurial needs?

We're happy to answer all your questions during our weekly Online Office Hours, taking place on Thursdays and Fridays (10:00-12:00). Allocate a time slot for a chat via this link: https://calendly.com/ace-incubator/15min?back=1&month=2020-09

Talk soon!

✅ Yet another successful Ready 2 Scale cohort ki

✅ Yet another successful Ready 2 Scale cohort kicked off on Wednesday September 16!

It was an inspiring session hosted by Pieter van Osch and organized by, amongst others, Ellen Spithoven. Focused on strategy and execution, the masterclass tackled issues many startups face when scaling and therefore a few tips;

🔥Find the X that will scale everything;
🔥Create a winning strategy;
🔥Implemt a daily huddle with the team;
🔥Set quarterly goals;
🔥Focus on your priorities;
🔥Quit and postpone tasks unrelated your goals.

Stay up to date: https://ready2scale.org/

🙌 Start your company within a week and join the

🙌 Start your company within a week and join the Humanities Bootcamp to learn the basics of developing your business ideas into a successful company. The four-day bootcamp is an initiative by Innovation Exchange Amsterdam (IXA), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), University of Amsterdam (UvA) and ACE.

During the program you will work with mentors, coaches and experienced entrepreneurs to help you tackle the challenges of starting a company in the field of humanities. The bootcamp is open to humanities students and PhDs from the University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Details: October 26, 27, 29 & 30, 2020
Time: 10h00 – 17h00 (attendance is required on all days)
Location: Humanities Lab AVS, Binnengasthuisstraat 9, 1012 ZA Amsterdam
Application: www.f6s.com/humanitiesbootcampoctober/

📣 The word is out! We're delighted to announce

📣 The word is out! We're delighted to announce that ACE and Rabobank Amsterdam have successfully extended their collaboration.

After a successful collaboration that started in 2010, ACE and Rabobank Amsterdam have festively extended their collaboration during a corona-proof get together. Rabobank has been involved with ACE from the start.

Wouter Stevens, Director of Companies: “With this partnership we increase the sustainable earning capacity of the entrepreneurs in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area and we contribute to the development of knowledge-intensive companies in the MRA.”

We're looking forward to continue to join forces and support entrepreneurship together with Rabobank Amsterdam! Read the full press release via the #linkinbio

Photo by: @rotterdamsefotograaf 📸

🚀 Our 3-day HvA Legal Tech program is a wrap!

🚀 Our 3-day HvA Legal Tech program is a wrap!

Together with @ixa_amsterdam and @hogeschoolvanamsterdam ACE is organizing Explore Programs annually to get HvA students acquainted with the endless possibilities entrepreneurship has to offer.

During the last edition of the program, 25 HvA students got together via Zoom to learn more about idea generation, value proposition and business modelling.

Sounds interesting? Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date of the next one! www.ace-incubator.nl

❓ Questions or doubts about the ACE incubation p

❓ Questions or doubts about the ACE incubation program? Sign up for our online info session and get those questions answered before taking the plunge!

During our (free) online info session on September 30 our team will make sure that no question will remain unanswered. Are you a student, researcher, PhD or professor with an innovative tech or science business idea? ACE incubation program will get you going!

Sign up now via the #linkinbio

📣 Call for innovative entrepreneurs! With the

📣 Call for innovative entrepreneurs!

With the Rabo Sustainable Innovation Award, @rabobank encourages entrepreneurs to work on innovative solutions that really matter.

Are you an entrepreneur bursting with ideas and do you dare to go against the grain, all for a sustainable society? The Rabo Sustainable Innovation Award is an initiative to accelerate your ideas and innovations.

Apply now and take the next step in entrepreneurship: via the link in bio!

✅ 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 VU program: a three-day entrepreneurship program by Innovation Exchange Amsterdam (IXA), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and ACE.

The explore program offers a unique opportunity to learn the basics of venture creation and pick your brains on potential business idea in the fields of science and technology. The program is open to researchers, post-docs and PhDs at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Details: October 15, 16 & 22, 2020
Time: 09h00 – 13h00
Location: online via Zoom
Application: https://www.f6s.com/exploreentrepreneurshipvu / link in bio!

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Are you thinking about taking the plunge into entr

Are you thinking about taking the plunge into entrepreneurship but don't have the tools to do so yet? That's where ACE comes in! 🙌

In collaboration with IXA and our founding universities, ACE is organizing a series of #Explore programs every semestre to dip your toe into the pool of entrepreneurship and the endless possibilities it has to offer.

Explore entrepreneurship now! https://ace-incubator.nl/ready-to-start/explore-program/

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