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

YoungUpstarts

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. Banks were already taking a close look at rising internet retailers and saw them as a promising new potential client group.

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Why you should pay attention to these 8 emerging tech hubs

The Next Web

Today, with the decentralising nature of the Internet, distributed cloud technology and a growing sentiment toward entrepreneurship, the global startup ecosystem has never been so dispersed. Eindhoven, Netherlands. But have you heard of what’s going on in Cyprus, Sweden or North Carolina? Pune, India?.

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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: What Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has learned in his business career

The Next Web

That includes the Netherlands, where it launched just yesterday, and it was in Amsterdam where I caught up with him to find out what he’s learned in his journey as an entrepreneur. Streaming obviously has the future and will be relevant as long as the Internet stays relevant. How can we optimize for global distribution.

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

Cell Buddy has developed the only seamless, carrier grade solution, for low cost Voice calls, SMS and Internet, while abroad. With 100% commitment to the digital world – Craze is using the latest technologies and constantly developing new methods (some patent pending) for selling and distributing music and videos. So is the internet.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

It is also reducing energy consumption since water production and distribution require a lot of energy, so preventing water loss also prevents this waste.&#. the New York-based Internet company spun off from Time Warner Inc., ConTIPI’s product has approval from the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA).

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Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley – Going to Where the Action Is

Steve Blank

Other companies operating in small markets with little R&D resources in their home country (ABB, Novartis and Hoffmann-La Roche in Switzerland, Philips in the Netherlands and Ericsson in Sweden) pursued R&D outside their home country by necessity. They let companies develop products to launch in world markets simultaneously.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

In the Netherlands being a entrepreneur very unusual. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. @gmlk, what would it take for you to recommend this blog to an entrepreneur who was a friend of yours? September 19, 2008 2:27 PM gmlk said.