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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

But hedonistic pleasures aside, The Netherlands actually has a great foundation for tech entrepreneurship. The Netherlands ranks top place in a large number of ICT indicators. On both these indicators, the Netherlands ranks second worldwide. The Netherlands remains open for business. A top-notch infrastructure.

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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. The pace of change in consumer behaviour has never been higher than in the last couple of years. After his time at the bank he used his experience to start his own brand.

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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. When players wear the Dash during a match or training, their stats including Pace, Agility, Stamina and Sprint, are pushed to the iPhone.

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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

He presented to organizations in the Netherlands, Chile, Spain, the UK (Ministry of Defense and the BBC), and aerospace companies. Here’s what happened. Finding The Problems Professor Garcia scoured the world to find eight Wicked/complex problems for students to work on.

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

The Next Web

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. Sure, you can increase your luck by growing a network of great people and constantly learning skills.

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Boosting the French Tech Ecosystem

Cracking the Code

To prepare the discussion, I worked with my colleague Pia d'Iribarne on a short memo summarizing a few elements that could be addresses in the labor law to reduce complexity and increase the agility of start-ups. The scheme’s associated residence permit entitles the applicant to be a resident of the Netherlands for one year.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

In the Netherlands being a entrepreneur very unusual. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? September 19, 2008 2:27 PM gmlk said. Expo SF (May.