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by Paolo Maria Pavan

The Shelves in My Grandfather’s Workshop When I was a child, my grandfather’s workshop had only three shelves. Not four, not five. Three. One for tools, one for materials, one for the work in progress...

ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE

Aug 8, 2025 WISE

Founders Without Nets: The 2025 Startup Grind & What GRC Teams Must Wake Up To

by Paolo Maria Pavan

FUNDING FREEFALL & THE SILENT KILLERS OF SCALE Let’s get one thing clear: raising money is no longer the biggest mountain to climb. It's proving that your startup deserves the money at all. According ...

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Aug 8, 2025 RISK INTELLIGENCE

Dutch Industry’s June Dip: A Story About Margins, Machines, and the Meaning Behind the Numbers

by Paolo Maria Pavan

We live in an age obsessed with percentages. The Dutch industry in June produced 0.2 percent less than the same month last year, says CBS. A fraction of a percentage, easy to ignore. But every fractio...

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Aug 8, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

Dutch Entrepreneurs Beware: The Tax Office Can Deny Your Depreciation, Even If the Building Isn’t Theirs!

by Linda Pavan

The Case You Didn’t See Coming Imagine this: you're the proud owner of a micro-entrepreneurial BV. You rent a facility from your local municipality, say, a swimming pool building and you invest in mak...

ES IT Linda Pavan NL TAX

Aug 8, 2025 LINDA PAVAN

Policies: Not Optional, Just Overdue

by Paolo Maria Pavan

One rainy Thursday in Amersfoort, I walked into a café run by a brilliant Ethiopian woman named Hana. Her espresso was perfect. Her books, chaotic. When I asked how she handled staff absences, she sai...

ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE

Aug 7, 2025 WISE

Cash is Dead, Grandma Pays with Her Phone: Why 90% of Dutch Small Businesses Are Sleepwalking into a Payment Apocalypse by 2029

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Let’s not sugarcoat it: the Dutch payments landscape is evolving faster than most entrepreneurs can keep up with. Between shiny mobile wallets, digital euros on the horizon, and every train tapping yo...

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Aug 7, 2025 RISK INTELLIGENCE

When the Barometer Rises, but the Compass Stays Uncertain

by Paolo Maria Pavan

There’s a peculiar kind of optimism in the Dutch business climate this quarter, one that doesn’t quite celebrate, but doesn’t retreat either. Like the moment a sailor notes the wind shifting after wee...

AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan

Aug 7, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

Is Your BV About to Get Burned? What the Tax Office Just Revealed About Dividend Tricks Will Hit Small Business Owners Next

by Linda Pavan

Why This Matters to You On July 22, 2025, the Dutch Tax Authority (Belastingdienst) issued its formal response to a public access request filed under the Wet open overheid (Woo, Open Government Act). ...

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Aug 7, 2025 LINDA PAVAN

Gossip, Loyalty & Micro-Company Decay

by Paolo Maria Pavan

A few years ago, I walked into a 12-person startup in Utrecht for what was supposed to be a financial audit. Instead, I found a funeral. Not a real one, something quieter, more insidious. There were n...

ES ESG IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan WISE

Aug 6, 2025 WISE

Think Your Newsletter Is Harmless? Think Again,GDPR Disagrees

by Francesco Cattaneo

The Illusion of “Innocent” Email Marketing Most micro and small businesses treat their newsletter strategy like a leftover, slapped together with a few clicks, then left running on autopilot. No harm,...

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Aug 6, 2025 FRANCESCO CATTANEO

When a Whisper Becomes a Warning: What Dutch Industrial Prices Are Telling Us

by Paolo Maria Pavan

There’s a peculiar sound in the Dutch economy lately, not a crash, not a siren, but something softer: the rustle of industrial prices sliding just a little, again. In June 2025, industrial sales price...

AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan

Aug 6, 2025 PAOLO MARIA PAVAN

No Strategy, No Records, No Chance: How a Dutch SME Owner Lost Her Company to Her Own Sloppiness

by Linda Pavan

A Case You Can Learn From (or Repeat): €1.5 Million in Tourist Tax Let’s begin with the basics. Between 2014 and 2021, a private limited company (X B.V.) was assessed over €1.5 million in tourist tax ...

ES IT Linda Pavan NL TAX

Aug 6, 2025 LINDA PAVAN

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