Category Archives: Startups

The Cultural Connection Bar.ber: A Lot More Than Just a Barber Shop

The Cultural Connection series will highlight the success of cultural entrepreneurs in Curaçao. According to Helmut K. Anheier and Yudhishthir Raj Isar (2008), “Cultural Entrepreneurs are cultural change agents and resourceful visionaries who organize cultural, financial, social and human capital, to generate revenue from a cultural activity. Their innovative solutions result in economically sustainable cultural […]

A New Leader in the Pro-Sound and Light Industry: L’Amiga Curaçao

This series sheds light on small and medium sized family businesses that have innovated and grown across generations. The family business model (or lack thereof) is actually proven to be one of the most successful business models that exist. According to Roberto H. Flören, the Head of the Business Faculty at Nyenrode Business University, “In […]

Curaçao’s Wellness Industry: Your Next Investment?

Existing simultaneously with under nutrition, obesity is one of the world’s unconcealed yet ignored problems. This international epidemic of overweight and obesity – referred to by the World Health Organization as ‘globesity’ has found its way, along with all of its terrible effects, to a small island in the Caribbean Sea, Curaçao. Like with any […]

Great Public Support for Illuminative Invention

Through the website kickstarter.com, the Curaçao born inventor Ian van Eenennaam and his business partner Luuk Verbakel, who are heading the company Elivatix, are well underway to raise the necessary 65,000 euro for the further development and production of their latest invention, the Lunaluxx. The Lunaluxx is a lamp with a levitating light source using […]

Business Boost as new incentive for small businesses

Minister Stanley Palm of Economic development and Tourism launched ‘Business Boost’, a program aimed at helping small and medium-sized enterprises in Curaçao. According to the Ministry of Economic Development (MEO) this project will assist, inform and educate 45 small businesses that are willing to contribute up to 30% of the costs for participating in this […]

Fostering Curaçao’s Entrepreneurial Culture Start-Up Curaçao

Start Up Curaçao, a platform set up to help entrepreneurs become successful in Curaçao, held a Business Marketing Fair on April 24th to present Workspot Curaçao. This is a coworking space in the heart of Willemstad that is a joint venture with a larger company from the Netherlands, that focuses on providing flexible working spaces […]

A New Way Of Doing Business in Curaçao

“Running a sustainable company is more than just installing some solar panels and recycling…it’s what happens when the profit motive, environmental benefit, personnel and community satisfaction align. That’s the future!” Mr. John Amarica, Vice Chairman, Curacao Business Council for Sustainable Development (Bedrijvenplatform Milieu – BPM) TEXT NEELAM MELWANI What is a Sustainable Business Model?The Financial […]

The Startup Stock Exchange has launched

The Startup Stock Exchange (SSX ) a global, regulated marketplace for startup investing and funding launched on June 10, 2013. Investors worldwide can buy shares of vetted startup companies in all sectors and in different stages of growth. “We are now officially open for business,” says CEO Ian Haet. “We are completely operational. Investors can […]

Support for Companies Creating a Smarter Curaçao

The Ministry of Economic Development, (MEO), and Curaçao Innovation & Technology Institute, (CITI), recently announced a program entitled, Start Up Launchpad during an informative press meeting at MEO’s headquarters. The Minister of Economic Development, Mr. Steven Martina, kicked off the start of the program by pressing a virtual button to officially open registration. The Launchpad […]