Guldentijd

GuldenTijd is a Dutch company that provides independent ondernemersadvies, or entrepreneurial advice, on the questions and challenges business owners face. Its four service lines are ondersteuning, meaning support for the entrepreneur, advisering for the business itself, participering, and executive search. The company explains that entrepreneurs sometimes run into recurring questions or challenges, for example organisational or financial ones, and that independent advice or a sounding board is valuable at those moments. At GuldenTijd the client gets support in making the right choices so they can carry on building their business. The firm works with both starting and established entrepreneurs, across virtually every sector and branche.

With start-ups, GuldenTijd meets people who have a good idea and the ambition for independent entrepreneurship but need a network of knowledge to fall back on in order to draw up a business plan and carry it out properly. The company advises and makes sure the entrepreneur enters into partnerships with the right parties, including banks, insurers, producers and suppliers, on the basis that successful collaborations are essential to a venture succeeding. Where it is wanted, GuldenTijd can participate in the business itself, which the company says results in accelerated growth. For the MKB segment, which accounts for the majority of all Dutch businesses, it guides and advises owners so they get more out of their company, pioneering alongside them at both tactical and strategic level.

GuldenTijd sits within Guldentijd Holding and publishes its working method, corporate story and references on the site, plus separate executive search pages for clients and for candidates. Its published references come from a head of defence property and municipal alderman, a general manager at ABB, an interim management and consultancy owner, the owner of Equinox Talent and the owner of Hout Vorm, who describe the founder Bart Withagen as conscientious, direct and well networked.