When Martin Macmillan ran a successful music app a few years ago, he didn’t feel successful in the monetary sense. Held back by the slow access to his hard-earned money, the entrepreneur with a background in banking knew there should be a faster way to collect cash. In 2014, he launched Pollen VC in London. […]

Amsterdam resident René Schoenmakers started collecting comic books when he was seven years old. Since then, he’s constantly been looking for the “next gem” to add to his growing collection. His search eventually took him online, where he’d spend hours surfing the Internet for that one special item. “There must be a faster way to […]

More than 2,700 international companies have already settled into Amsterdam, and between 100 to 200 new arrivals move into the Dutch capital each year. But since it has only 800,000 residents—and twice the amount of bicycles—the city doesn’t seem to be the most likely place for such a business boom. So what’s going on? To […]

Vanesa Souss runs an illustrated blog about her life in Holland. One moment, she’s pictured buying a piano with her boyfriend. Next, she’s visiting the Muiderslot castle with friends. Then, she’s watching a man feed seagulls. Her adventures in Amsterdam have captions in English and Spanish too, cluing the reader in that she hasn’t always […]

For Yasir Khokhar, it all started with the thought What are the cows thinking? One day in Holland, he recalls, “I was staring outside my window, looking at the grazing cows and wondered, ‘What are they thinking?’ It was one of those insignificant thoughts that turned into an eureka moment. That’s when the plan emerged.” […]

Growing up in the Argentinian city of Rosario, Leticia Bordoni always dreamed of living abroad. But she never imagined moving to Amsterdam to set up her business. “When you do something you really like and it comes from the heart, people sense that,” says Bordoni, founder of the online shop Pura Patria. The WeWork Weteringschans […]