Alright, let's say you're going on a trip to Asia and plan on hitting 5 different countries. You know you're gonna need to sort out a mobile connection to the local company in each new place.

Chore.

But, imagine if you could simply get your local SIMs before you even start your trip? So that once you land you are automatically connected. Before you've even finished breakfast in your New York apartment, in 5 minutes you've sorted out mobile connectivity for your adventure to the East.

This is the aim of Airalo co-founder and Antler alumni, Bahadir Özdemir. He plans to turn the traditional roaming market completely on its head through new eSIM technology.

Bahadir stopped by the Antler Amsterdam office for a quick chat with our marketing manager Hayden on the state of eSIM technology and the challenges in being the trailblazer for this emerging space:

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Former Uber EMEA Head of Recruiting and Antler advisor, Nicolas Buteau outlines what he thinks are the most essential tips for hiring your first recruits for your startup, how to maintain team diversity at scale and hiring pitfalls to avoid. We sat down with Nic in London to discuss all this and more.

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Lessons from recruiting a diverse cohort of rocket scientists, excited entrepreneurs, CTO's, management consultants and all round superstars.

Zoe Hall, Director of Marketing for the newly opened New York location, looks to fully communicate the advantages of Antler’s unique approach by sharing an illustrative encounter with Anna Ratala and Malik Alimoekhamedov, current co-founders of Zvook and Antler alumi.

Last week Fortify founder, Paul Musters gave a presentation to the Antler  cohort in Amsterdam about what it takes to build a successful startup team.  His presentation covered many aspects including the 5 reasons for  dysfunctional teams, psychological safety and more. Here are some of the  biggest takeaways we found.

On August 18, 2018, I had a realization. It was the realization that another life-changing opportunity had fallen onto my path. Earlier in life in similar situations, I didn’t realize the ripple effects that a decision has over time.

The entrepreneurial journey can be a combination of structure and chaos, success and failure. But most would agree that above all it one of ongoing learning.

This is the question that in the last years a lot of people have been wondering, because no matter how we do the math that is not enough. Written by Antti Rantanen, Venture Partner for Antler Netherlands and Head of European Operations at Avanto Ventures.

Don’t strive for perfection on your first go- strive to prove that the business works and customers are willing to pay for it. Think of building your product as a miniseries, not as a movie.

Wisnu Nugrahadi is a founder from Antler's inaugural program in Singapore from July 2018. After the first eight weeks into the program, he and his co-founders Margana Mohamad and Dimas Pramudya created Sampingan.

You don’t need a startup. You don’t need a team. You don’t even need an idea. Antler helps with all of that.

They say you make your own luck in life, and historically, I think Australia has done that... but if we believe we can ride the sheep’s back into an affluent future, then we deserve to be the poor fools we will become.

In honour of International Women's Day, we want to highlight the importance of female presence in the working space. Therefore, we sat down for a chat with Saskia Rademaker, our recruitment director in Amsterdam, and asked her all about her vision on the importance of diversity.

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Our very first demo day for Antler Singapore was met with great success, with 13 portfolio companies presenting their pitches to more than 500 investors from both the regional and international VC community. A great step forward from where they were six months ago.

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