Student Entrepreneurship

Why do students establish their own companies? And how do they turn their business ideas into a reality? In this series, student entrepreneurs tell us about the incubation stage of their start-ups.

What happens to a person’s Instagram account after he or she passes away? These days, people leave a huge number of subscriptions and accounts behind when they die. For this reason Graciëlla van  founded Closure, an agency that allows family members to terminate all sorts of subscriptions, contracts and accounts after their loved ones have passed away.

After visiting Tanzania on a school trip some years ago, student Thom Uildriks (19) and his partner Spijk Geene wanted to take action and venture into social entrepreneurship. True to their word, they decided to create Boxrs4ALL and tackle a prominent issue they had encountered during their trip: underwear insecurity.

Being a regular customer at student bar In De Smitse pays off  if your name is Frank Smitshoek. The former law student frequented the brown café often after long days on campus. Now, years since his graduation, De Smitse is selling beers from the brewery Frank started alongside long-time friend Eric Krommenhoek.

EUC student Eva Aarts won the BlueCity Circular Challenge, a project to turn something apparently worthless into something valuable. Now, as a co-founder of the Waterweg start-up, she is trying to bring water-permeable dredging tiles onto the market.