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How New Technologies Enabled These Young Entrepreneurs To Threaten The Traditional Retail Landscape

YoungUpstarts

While large corporations are struggling with the digital transformation, small agile firms emerge every day and challenge traditional retailers. One of the cofounders explains how he witnessed first-hand while working at a bank that a lot of traditional retailers were in trouble as internet retailers ate away their margins.

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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

The Next Web

There are opportunities to get a feel for running a team, validating an idea, choosing co-founders. So you learn to be agile, to take it in your stride, to pivot based on the shortcomings of your competitors. Even the Netherlands is catching up, with FailCon NL taking place this week on March 4th, 2014 in Amsterdam.

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Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

In the Netherlands being a entrepreneur very unusual. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. September 19, 2008 2:27 PM gmlk said. September 19, 2008 2:35 PM gmlk said.

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SXSW Startups: DashTag Tracks Soccer

Austin Startup

Based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, DashTag will show off its own stats at 12:30 pm Sunday, March 11, along with the other finalists in Sports and Performance Data Technology , at the Hilton Austin, Salon AB. Answering questions on behalf of the Dashtag is Dirk van den Berg , the CMO and co-founder of this startup. After the U.K.,

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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. Co mpanies also face Wicked problems. He presented to organizations in the Netherlands, Chile, Spain, the UK (Ministry of Defense and the BBC), and aerospace companies. Here’s what happened.

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Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets

Startup Lessons Learned

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Expo SF (May.

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Six streaming locations

Startup Lessons Learned

Im excited to announce the first six confirmed simulcast locations: Delft, Netherlands [link] Provo, UT [link] Boulder, CO [link] Chicago, IL [link] Barcelona, Spain [link] Vancouver, Canada [link] Please RSVP so our organizers can plan capacity accordingly. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.