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

The Next Web

We are the most active Twitter country in the world (measured by tweets per account) and the third most socially networked. The first thing any American notices when coming to Amsterdam is that unlike Germany and France, everyone speaks English. In short: a small country that is hyper connected. Serious talent.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

But the early customers all compared it to MySpace. This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. It required hearing customers say it over and over again for us to take a serious look, and eventually to realize that social networking was core to our business.