Izak van der Sluijs was born in 1930 in the Netherlands. He was ten years old when the second world war broke out and spent half of his...
Author Archives: mgosker
PIB Scale in Singapore
Scale in Singapore B. Building Business officially signed the Partners for International Business covenant (PIB) Scale in Singapore....
B.Singapore
“We accelerate growth and innovation by connecting markets.” B. Building Business is the biggest business growth ecosystem in...
StudioSG
BECAUSE LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO WEAR BORING CLOTHES A lot of women I meet have lamented that they don’t have the time to upcycle their...
Aphrilis
In 2013 I established my Dutch sole propriety under the name Aphrilis Consulting. With this I enabled myself to work as a freelancer on...
Helpers of Singapore
The Helpers of Singapore blog is designed after the successful “Humans of…” series. On the blog I feature the foreign...
Prominent European accelerator tours Asia, launches Startupbootcamp FinTech in Singapore
Startupbootcamp, a vertical-focused startup accelerator founded in 2010 in Copenhagen, Denmark, is stepping into Asia for the first time....
A change of scenery…
Dear colleagues and Startupbootcamp friends, In a long and dusty taxi–ride between Camaguey and Havana, Cuba, Wouter and I decided...
Startupbootcamp Amsterdam moves HQ to B. Amsterdam
The Startupbootcamp team has moved to a brand new office in the B.Amsterdam building. The former IBM office-space in Amsterdam has been...
Startupbootcamp wins Best Accelerator category of The Europas 2014!
Well, it sure has been an amazing 24 hours. Starting with an energized gathering of the Startupbootcamp MD family on the banks of the...
Startupbootcamp NFC & Contactless Interactions Program 2013
January 17th was Investor Demo Day for Startupbootcamp’s NFC & Contactless Class from Amsterdam. After a...
De Vrede van het Domplein
In 1713 werd de Vrede van Utrecht gesloten, een internationaal vredesverdrag waarmee er een einde kwam aan 150 jaar godsdienst oorlogen...
iWhisper semi-finalist at the AppMyCity Prize
Want to map your city, find the best route to work, discover new facets of your home city or report urban problems? Look no further…...
iWhisper meest belovende startup van Utrecht
Uit meer dan 40 aanmeldingen is iWhisper door zowel de jury als het publiek verkozen tot winnaar van de Utrechtse ondernemerscompetitie...
iWhisper graduates from UtrechtInc Pressure Cooker Program
iWhisper joined the second Pressure Cooker Program of UtrechtInc. in 2012. The current program looks as follows: Pressure Cooker For...
iWhisper
In 2012 I co-founder iWhisper Ltd. which was the merger of the original idea Vooxl (which my partner and I founded in 2011 in Singapore)...
2012 Conference on Health and Humanitarian Logistics
The 2012 Conference on Health and Humanitarian Logistics was hosted this year by the Kühne Logistics University in the Curio-Haus,...
INSEAD Case-study “Max Foundation: Reducing Child Mortality through Business Model Innovation”
Case Synopsis Imagine you have just lost your first child, and are determined to do something that spares other parents a similar loss....
INSEAD Partners with Kühne Logistics University to Open Research Centre on Humanitarian Logistics
Centre will be one of the first of its kind to branch out into new fields of research in humanitarian logistics Abu Dhabi, Fontainebleau,...
The 10th EABIS Colloquium: “A New Era in Development: The Changing Role and Responsibilities of Business in Developing Countries”
Business in Developing Countries: Stakes are High By: Mirte Gosker and Miranda Helmes During the last few years, profound shifts have...
Mini documentary on Thaipusam, Singapore
While living in Singapore in Q1 of 2011, I took advantage of the my relaxed work-life balance, by an attempt of making a mini documentary...
Role Models, Realistic Representatives or Stereotypes?
During the first half of 2010 I studied the Representation of Moroccan Dutchmen in the Dutch Media, as part of my Master Studies in...
Tribal people
I’ve always been super curious about tribal peoples and their organization of daily life. As an Anthropologist it’s...
Si, yo quiero!
In the spring of 2007, I spend 4 months in Guatemala to conduct qualitative research for my Bachelor of Science, Cultural Anthropology at...