During this day, three companies will give a small talk on the subject of entrepreneurship and startups. It will take place in the Career Orientation MS Teams (a-es2.nl/careerorientationteams)
During the last 15 minutes of the talk of GitLab we have the honor to welcome the CEO of GitLab, Sid Sijbrandij. Sid initially started with GitLab as a start-up in Utrecht. You can ask your questions to him during the Q&A.
Starting your own business is a daunting step to take. It’s an even bigger step to take if you have courses, exams, and assignments following your every move. Being a student though, you have the smallest amount of risk you can possibly take when starting a business, and the most energy and time to learn and take your time in building your business. Have you ever considered the entrepreneurship lifestyle? See immense potential for yourself and your business idea and would like to really start unlocking it for yourself?
In this first talk, we are going to be talking about the Design Thinking process, and how you can use that to build the first steps of your business. We will focus on what your goal should be as an entrepreneur and how you can go about starting to achieve that goal.
SyncVR is the largest VR platform for medical care. The SyncVR Medical platform makes it possible to implement VR throughout the hospital: from hardware, software and workshops to appointments with support services and a hygiene protocol. During this talk Niek will tell you what SyncVR is, what their goal is, what they do / make, what kind of company it is and how they work.
Niek graduated a few years ago and immediately started working for a startup that grew very quickly in a year's time, after which he started at SyncVR. SyncVR is still in the startup phase. He will share his personal experiences of working at a startup. He will also talk about the changes he has experienced when a company grows from start-up to mature company. In doing this, he will also discuss the differences between working at a startup and a mature company.
GitLab is a DevOps platform built from the ground up as a single application for all stages of the DevOps lifecycle enabling Product, Development, QA, Security, and Operations teams to work concurrently on the same project. GitLab continues to experience great success with 100k+ organizations, millions of users, and a 2/3rd share of the self-managed DevOps market. This presentation will share milestones along the journey from a two-person open source project in 2011, incorporation in 2014, participation in Silicon Valley’s Y Combinator in 2015 through to today - the world’s largest all-remote company with 1300+ employees in 68 countries and multiple industry awards. We’ll explore the process of growing and lessons learned along the way through the lens of GitLab’s Values: Collaboration, Results, Efficiency, Iteration, Diversity (Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging), and Transparency. Insights from our Founder, long-standing team members, as well as new teams will be shared. During the last 15 minutes of this talk you can also ask your questions to the CEO of GitLad, Sid Sijbrandij!
