About us
Next Steps Supports entrepreneurs with purchase and sale of businesses
Next Steps helps entrepreneurs with the purchase and sale of businesses. We support a successful purchase or sale with a satisfied client. We are transparent and honest, communicating directly with the entrepreneur. Together with the entrepreneur, Next Steps ensures optimal value where all parties feel good about the transaction.
Experience in broad field
Next Steps was founded by four experienced entrepreneurs. Experience in a broad field: business start-up, business consulting and business transfer. We speak the language of entrepreneurs. Because we are ourselves.
During his working life, Okkie gained a lot of experience at different companies. In 2005, he decided to start his own company: the research company DirectResearch. After 14 years of entrepreneurship, he sold the company in 2019. He then wanted to pass on his knowledge and experience to other entrepreneurs. For the past three years at Thexton Armstrong, he has focused on entrepreneurs in the areas of business strategy and business transfer.
Okkie's motivation is supporting entrepreneurs with business transfers. As an entrepreneur, he knows it is an exciting time, where you need to have a good plan to be successful. Pitfalls lurk, which is why he advises every entrepreneur to hire an acquisition advisor in time.
Personal
He lives and works on his houseboat in Amsterdam, behind Artis. He regularly hears the lions, elephants and monkeys; sometimes it seems as if he is in Africa. His daughters live independently in Amsterdam. He enjoys sports: tennis, squash, cycling, swimming.
Contact
Okkie.Boot@nextstepsbedrijfsovernames.nl
06 5362 2211
Since 2004 Peter has been helping entrepreneurs with business transfer with great pleasure and success. Peter makes contact easily. He listens well and makes connections between people and things. He has a strategic view, and always pays attention to practical feasibility. Not coincidentally, Peter is an avid chess player.
He has a good understanding of numbers and helps with financing questions. His goal is to give both buyer and seller a good feeling when transferring a business. Of course with a nice purchase price, based on future cash flows. For simple and complex valuations he does not turn his hand away. A strong point is that he speaks the language of the entrepreneur.
Personal
Peter is a stable, balanced personality who stands firmly in his shoes and is ready to face any situation. He lives with his partner in Maarn. He is not into fancy writing, and not corporate. A driven, energetic and motivated consultant with a realistic outlook.
Contact
Peter.Rijsdijk@nextstepsbedrijfsovernames.nl
06 5174 8384
After a career in the technology sector, Nico founded one of the first online video companies in the Netherlands in 2004. Even before YouTube existed. The company grew into a leading player in the Netherlands and Germany, thanks in part to external investors and acquisitions. In 2018, it was sold to an international party.
Between 2019 and 2023, Nico remained active in the sector until he exited completely via a management buyout. Since then, he has been supporting entrepreneurs with a variety of issues, especially commercial ones.
In July 2025, he joined Next Steps. He wants to guide other entrepreneurs in acquisition and investment processes, which he himself experienced six times at close quarters. Nico knows how intensive such a process can be and is happy to help with proper preparation and transfer.
Personal
Nico has been playing drums since he was ten years old and has a great passion for music. While studying economics, he was a professional musician for several years. Due to his entrepreneurship, music fell into the background for a long time, but since 2014 it is again his creative outlet and source of energy. He performs with several bands and produces live music shows. Nico is married to Brigitte and lives in Huizen.
Contact
Nico.Verspaget@nextstepsbedrijfsovernames.nl
06 5467 3654
Richard has been an entrepreneur himself for many years. As a quartermaster, he built a completely new Benelux office for an international marketing company. That experience of growing, steering and cutting knots is exactly why he reads a company in 2 hours. He sees not only what it is worth, but also what it can become worth more.
Since 2018, Richard has been working with SME entrepreneurs on everything involved in transferring a business: from sales preparation and valuation to negotiations and the transfer itself. Personal, involved and with a clear goal: the best outcome for you and your business.
Personal
Richard lives with Marieke in the beautiful city center of Amersfoort. A true bon vivant, he loves to be found in a good restaurant, on a mountain bike on the Utrecht Ridge, on the golf course or on the ski slopes in Italy.
Contact
Richard.Timman@nextstepsbedrijfsovernames.nl
06 1843 9161
