About us
The Tech Entrepreneur Community (TEC) is an association of entrepreneurs of all kinds of experience levels, together aiming to boost entrepreneurship and to lead the way for a new generation of entrepreneurs. TEC wants talented students to explore their abilities to disrupt markets and commercialize technology. To do so, TEC has developed a world-class action learning programme called the TEC eXperience (TEC-X). Students at TEC-X will be guided and assisted by leading entrepreneurs and mentors, to work on business challenges and to develop their own ideas for a start-up with fellow participants. All people involved are part of a lively and growing community where talent is explored and success is accelerated.
TEC was founded in 2014 by Patrick van Gent, Jurriaan Pröpper and Toon Buddingh, who know eachother from their student days in Delft. Their ambition to boost entrepreneurship in the Netherlands evolved into the TEC-X programme, wich is now organized in four major student cities: Amsterdam, Delft, Enschede and Groningen. In 2016 more than 100 students participated in the programme and can call themselves TEC alumni now.
Meet our students, tutors and the advisory board!
Some of our (previous) Students
Because of that, I not only learned about entrepreneurship but also a lot about myself. At times it became tough to keep believing in yourself and your product/company but at TEC we kept motivating each other every week which really helped and made it a very nice experience!!
It was great to experience that when you put people with different backgrounds in a group you would get totally different outcomes than you would think of at the start.
Using your creativity in a the group is also the most fun part.
Sometimes it's difficult to agree on the fact that the idea you came up with doesn't work in a business model. That's hard to admit when you've put a lot of time and effort in it. That's the life of an entrepreneur, you have to keep on going and think about a better one!
Some tutors