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Being an entrepreneur
is great!
Benno Groosman MScBA
Entrepreneur in Residence at Orange Grove
Serial entrepreneur Groosman.co Startups
Business director Surge-on Medical
Athens, May 14, 2016 at
Being an entrepreneur
sucks!
“A startup is a human institution designed to
create a new product or service under
conditions of extreme uncertainty.”
Eric Ries, The Lean Startup
MY STARTUP LIFE
Selling cd’s
    
€ € € € €
1999
Private tutoring
2003
    
€ € € € €
MSc in Entrepreneurship
2009
    
€ € € € €
Health tech startup
2009
    
€ € € € €
Health tech millionaire*
2013
    
€ € € € €!
* equity value
Aaaaand it’s gone
Bankruptcy
2014
    
-/-€€€€€
Brazil accelerator
2014
    
€ € € € €
Maastricht pre-incubation
2015
    
€ € € € €
YOU CAN DO IT!
WHY GREECE?
WHY YOU?
WHY NOW?
Contact us!
info@orangegrove.biz contact@groosman.co

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