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Dutch Student Entrepreneurs Building a Large Scale EdTech Marketplace: StuDocu CEO Marnix Broer (Part 5)
Marnix Broer: We didn’t really have to dilute ownership to raise €100,000. However, if we didn’t have the €100,000, the decisions we made were probably tougher to make. If you have some money, you dare to take a bit more risk. It might have actually made a difference. Later on in 2016, we raised from
Dutch Student Entrepreneurs Building a Large Scale EdTech Marketplace: StuDocu CEO Marnix Broer (Part 4)
Marnix Broer: For us, that was the challenge to show that we can launch StuDocu anywhere in the world from the Netherlands. Eventually, it worked out. Spain was great to show that we can do it in any language. Australia was great to show how far you can go without going there physically. We could
Dutch Student Entrepreneurs Building a Large Scale EdTech Marketplace: StuDocu CEO Marnix Broer (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What year does this bring us up to? Marnix Broer: This was in 2014. That was the moment we tried to see if we can go abroad. At that moment, we had two challenges. One was, can we make a business out of this? The main goal is to help students all over
Dutch Student Entrepreneurs Building a Large Scale EdTech Marketplace: StuDocu CEO Marnix Broer (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Did you build the platform yourself? Marnix Broer: Yes. I started with Jacques. He was my roommate in the student house. Soon we needed someone to build the website. That’s when I knocked on the door of my old friend from high school who was also studying in Delft. Later on, we saw
Dutch Student Entrepreneurs Building a Large Scale EdTech Marketplace: StuDocu CEO Marnix Broer (Part 1)
We’ve done a lot of EdTech case studies and also a lot of 2-sided Marketplace Case Studies.Here’s one from The Netherlands that compares/competes with Course Hero and Quizlet. Terrific story! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of
