About us

What have a cabin trunk, shopping bag and used HP printer related to each other? Not so much, except that all three are part of the genesis of Reken Maar Verslagen!

Hi, I'm Jeroen Willemsen and I started Reken Maar Verslagen in 2015, during my Business Administration studies. Out of sheer frustration that there were no good summaries for the tricky maths subjects during my studies.

So what do you do? You take a gap year, lock yourself up in a computer room at university for two months and resolve "I'm going to write the very best summary ever for the most difficult first-year subject"!

With a cabin trunk (there's the trunk!) full of distribution samples, I walked into the lecture hall two months later. Everyone got a copy. That same afternoon, I got a call from the Study Store, the bookstore on campus. "Do you have any more of those booklets? Your first batch has completely run out!".

The used HP printer (that's two!) that I had bought on Marktplaats was running from early morning until late at night. Just to get all the summaries finished in time for 5pm, to go out with a shopping bag (bingo!) to walk to the letterbox before it would be emptied!

In the following years, Reken Maar expanded into Economics studies and translated our summaries into English for international students. We also started Reken Maar Theorie, a summary line for theory subjects.

Meanwhile, Reken Maar Verslagen is the market leader in the summarisation market at Erasmus University, specialising in Business, Economics and IBEB studies. Some facts:

  • Active since 2015
  • More than 100,000 summaries already sold
  • Around 2,000 loyal customers every year
  • For students, by students... All summaries are written and maintained by top students

Print

Our summaries are printed and shipped by our loyal supplier Books4You. A family business in heart and soul, where people have been printing with passion for over 30 years!