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

The Next Web

Let me drop a few names and you will get the picture: Adyen, Booking.com (acquired by Priceline), Distimo, Mendix, Shapeways, Spilgames, Takeaway.com, TravelBird, WeTransfer and Qandidate. Bringing macro back down to micro – there are Dutch techies and executives ‘ kicking ass and taking names ‘ around the globe.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

I can’t say his name yet because he hasn’t announced funding. Most of the informed people I know are telling me that the sharp sell-off has more to do with European national debt (PIGS as it is called: Portugal, Italy, Greece & Spain) than the current US dilemma of a S&P downgrade of the US government debt.

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Ellison Eyewear the Multi-Billion $ Sunglass Industry

Hearpreneur

Passionate about Greece, he used this as inspiration to not only name the product, but to also develop a way to help Greece during these troubled times. The name Ellison is a play on the Greek word for the sun, “Elios”. “Who Ellison was easier to pronounce and therefore made the product more accessible to a global audience.

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Understanding Research Engine Optimization And Its Impact on SEO with Shama Hyder

Duct Tape Marketing

Shama is a visionary strategist for the digital age, a web and TV personality, a bestselling author, and the award-winning CEO of Zen Media – a global marketing and digital PR firm. Scroll back to top Sign up to receive email updates Enter your name and email address below and I'll send you periodic updates about the podcast.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

Girls in Tech London picked the top women in 19 countries – the UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Greece and Israel – on the basis of their leadership and excellence in innovation and technology.

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Bologna Business School Commencement Speech

Reid Hoffman

It might seem unusual to classify a generation of people after a technology, but it’s always been this way, just not explicitly by name. Millennials or Generation Y grew through a few global recessions and a pandemic. Right here in Italy. A more accurate name for us is Homo techne : humans as toolmakers and tool users.

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12 Questions: Meet Bojan Bundalo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

crowdSPRING Blog

My name is Bojan Bundalo (33), cS “code name” BigBaldBeardo. Inspiring nature and its position on the roads between Austria and Italy in north-west, and Greece and Turkey in south-east (German, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman culture), made this area rich in various influences, specially in fields of art and design.

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