Expat life in The Netherlands is great. You can walk into an Irish bar and bond with your French and Spanish friends over a German beer and an Italian pizza. In all seriousness though, this is a multicultural country, and learning a foreign language can turbocharge your career here. Sound like a good deal? Expats…
Transplanting your life to another country comes with an incredible amount of changes. Emigration requires quite a lot of adjustment with many things being different from “back home”. Of all the things that you have to adapt to, salary expectations and changes in rates of pay will be top of the list. Everyone loves that…
The Netherlands’ Highly Skilled Immigrant visa program is a way for the country to introduce highly skilled ‘knowledge’ workers into the economy.
Thinking about starting up a business in the Netherlands? If so, have a read of these four quick tips for starting a business here to get you on the right track!
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For love, for money, for adventure; there are near-infinite reasons why people emigrate nowadays. If you are an entrepreneur or a self-employed person from outside the EU, EEA or Switzerland, and are considering moving to the Netherlands, you will be happy to know that there is a whole host of information available to help you…
Two cities –Amsterdam and Helsinki – though very different in many ways, have a startup boom in common. From Wired magazine, to Silicon Republic, to EU Startups, the media’s paying attention to Amsterdam’s colossal startup power. Tech Crunch called the city “the world’s high tech start up capital”. Amsterdam comes in sixth of Europe’s startup…
When internationals relocate, they find themselves in a new place, knowing few people and, in some cases, with some extra time on their hands. It can often be intimidating to step out of your comfort zone in a new place, but volunteering in the Netherlands is a great way to get involved and give a…
Built on an economy that encourages innovation, with new start-ups popping up every day, it’s no wonder that expat entrepreneurs and business owners in the Netherlands continue to entice.
Eric Ries first applied the term ‘pivot’ to startups in his book, The Lean Startup. According to Ries, a pivot is “making a change in strategy, without a change in vision”. Pivoting is knowing where you can grow and move your ideas forward. It is knowing when to abandon an idea that lack luster, knowing…
