Esther Gons is Managing Partner at NEXT Amsterdam. As an investor, she helps startups from the idea phase to a working business model.
Esther has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur. Esther was co-founder of Fast Moving Targets, developed the entrepreneurship course for the HvA University of Applied science Amsterdam, is an international speaker, organised the first StartupBus Europe tour in 2011 and acted as lead mentor at Rockstart Accelerator for the past 6 years. As a visual spatial thinker she was part of bringing the lean startup movement to the Netherlands. She is co-author of The Corporate Startup and has mentored over 100 startups so far and still acts as advisor for many of them. Esther is founding partner and investor at NEXT Amsterdam where they help early stage software startups find their business model and help Corporates with portfolio management and innovation accounting.
The Corporate Startup: How established companies can develop successful innovation ecosystems