VentureLab International -Business growth accelerator

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Our Participants Successes: we helped 326 startups, and created 3062 jobs

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VentureLab International

The VentureLab operates at VentureLab North in Groningen


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We offer a research-based business development programme for technology-based startups and are a business growth accelerator for well-established high-tech companies.

Our approach jump-starts and provides sustainable growth for long-standing companies and young businesses which aim to grow further and more rapidly. We can offer this in a proven (three hundred participants) one year programme. Or as modular to a tailor-made programme that can be constructed to fit your company’s specific needs.

VentureLab International is also developing programmes. Read more.

Our Approach

The VentureLab concept is grounded on more than 25 years of practical and research experience in business development support,

The key to launching a company on the market as effectively as possible is not only the idea, but also all the entrepreneurial competences that form the basis of a successful business operation.

To move from idea (opportunity recognition) to business model (opportunity preparation),

to running a fast growing, technology-based business (opportunity exploitation), many steps are required. These steps are impossible for one person to envisage, coordinate and take. Building a business, let alone a fast growing company, is teamwork.

Our approach jump-starts and provides sustainable growth

for long-standing companies and young businesses which aim to grow further and more rapidly. Our clients are -mostly- technology and education based start-ups and established firms that want to accelerate their business growth.

What we do

Training, expert coaching and workshops are courses aimed at entrepreneurs who participate in VentureLab

they make participants knowledgeable about, and competent in the functional roles, tasks and responsibilities during the progressive phases of business development.

Golden Egg Check is an online “toolset” for entrepreneurs, investors and business accelerators.

The VentureLab trainings are exactly aligned with that. The tool-set is based on scientific research in collaboration with the University of Twente and has been validated by more than 850 entrepreneurs. Read more.

VentureClass are free networking evenings with an inspirational speaker.

For current VentureClasses, please check our agenda Click here to check a list of the previous speakers.

What other participants say…

Business development is the most difficult thing around. The coach and expert coaches of VentureLab were worth their weight in gold. They made us aware of our strengths and showed us how to meet our growth targets.

Mark de Vries EuroDev

Our first idea was to enter the market for solar and wind energy in order to capitalize on the growing industry. Partially based on the feedback that we received in business-panel presentations of VentureLab, we decided to take better advantage of our current business activities.

Doeko Welp A.L.S. Groningen

We have received great support from VentureLab in the form of network meetings and training sessions. Each networking opportunity offers a chance to establish contact with other entrepreneurs to share ideas.

Elisa Gielen and Paul Jenkins TinyEYE

VentureLab brought all of this together for me in one environment. I acquired new knowledge, learned from best practises, and met a variety of inspiring professionals from various fields and levels of experience.

Jos KoendersThermo Comb

I realized that I would need more than my technical background alone in order to succeed in business. With the support of VentureLab Twente, I was able to fine tune the business concept for Trade-Base from marketing and strategy perspective.

Dennis DoubovskiSocial Mining

The contact between the participants made VentureLab particularly valuable. There’s always someone ready to think along with you and help you on your way.

Ellen Grünefeld

You meet a lot of highly-motivated, inspiring people at VentureLab. You learn a lot, partly thanks to the coaches. It’s a relatively small investment, but with high returns.

Bert Otter

Knowledge is our core business. And our knowledge could make us global market leader. The expertise and network provided by VentureLab are valuable tools that will help us on our journey

Erik-Jan de Hoon Kryoz