Your Sneak Preview of the Future
For the past three years, Tessie Hartjes has been writing about how the Dutch start-up Lightyear has evolved from a student team to one of the most promising Dutch start-ups. This is her last column.
In the past, you did an alpine course and booked that adventurous mountain trip with a specialized travel agency. Our columnist and her friends conquered three glaciers with the help of YouTube.
There is an immense opportunity to hire abroad, but current legislation makes it very hard for start-ups, writes Tessie Hartjes, VP marketing of Lightyear.
In this section of IO, our columnists are writing and working on solutions for the problems of our time. So tomorrow will be good.
Haroon Sheikh is a senior scientist at The Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR). I consider him to be a bit like the Dutch […]
I remember my disbelief when I heard that entire cities and regions were under quarantine because of the corona virus. What an impact that must […]
Last Friday I bumped into a former college student and I asked her where she worked these days. When she told me that she worked […]
Yesterday a colleague showed me a deep fake clip ripped from Home Alone. Both the face and voice of the lead actor Kevin were replaced […]
Start-ups face challenges on many different levels and it’s the ultimate balancing game. You need to have a team in order to deliver your proposal. […]
At the end of high school I had to choose what and where I wanted to study. I had an answer to the question ‘where,’ […]
Anyone who sees me sitting will notice I often nod my head like an Indian and am constantly tugging at my face or neck. I […]
Gliding smoothly over the streets in Oslo, I feel like I’m in an episode of the Jetsons. I am greeted kindly by an oncoming rider […]
Five months ago, we decided to advance the construction of Lightyear’s prototype. Not an easy decision, but it was necessary to test some of the […]
Last Friday we were invited to a special location for Lightyear, in Munich. Through the organization of a rally for a group of car collectors, […]
Working at a startup means that you have to deal with a lot of uncertainties. You don’t have track records or any data from your […]
When Lightyear considered moving to the Automotive Campus in the summer of 2017, one of the biggest concerns was accessibility. Although there are several ways […]
Recently I watched the fascinating Netflix documentary Wild Wild Country about the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, who had a huge group of followers in the […]
In secondary school, I regularly participated in initiatives such as the Lagerhuis. Originally I got an interest in politics and for a long time, I […]
In a weekly column, alternately written by Maarten Steinbuch, Mary Fiers, Carlo van de Weijer, Lucien Engelen, Tessie Hartjes and Auke Hoekstra, Innovation Origins tries […]
In a weekly column, alternately written by Maarten Steinbuch, Mary Fiers, Carlo van de Weijer, Lucien Engelen, Tessie Hartjes and Auke Hoekstra, Innovation Origins tries […]