Netherlands Business Support Office

Tim Westergren at the Dutch Business Breakfast in Oakland.

With Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora Radio, as headliner for today’s DBB, we expected an audience that would stay on their seats till the bitter end. And, we were not disappointed!

After the opening remarks of Deborah Acosta (City of Oakland), raving about Oakland and the renovation, and Doug Engmann (excellent Dutch Honorary Consul), it truly became “Tim” time. Passionately he told us about the countless hours invested in the product, the long … Continue Reading

Last Monday, June 1st, we welcomed seven companies from the Netherlands, who spun off from their Universities (TU Delft and TU Twente). They showed up to attend the 9th international Silicom Summit 2009 at Stanford.

The companies were accompanied by their University incubators, Yes!Delft and Kennispark. We started that same day (what jet lag?) with a rehearsal of their five minute speech. And boy, it wasn’t easy to get them under that generous number of minutes, or convince them that discussing an “exit” was a necessity when you want VC money. However, we saw the potential, and that evening it was … Continue Reading