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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

The press around the raise & company was fantastic and the promise of their technology – wireless charging that works as easily as WiFi – would positively affect many of our lives. As you may know Google recently restructured so that Larry could spend more time on big innovations – on “moonshots.”

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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 have three universities in the top 100 of the Shanghai ranking for engineering and technology. Our population churns out 181 patents per million inhabitants ranking us #8 in the world – ahead of the US, South Korea and Norway. We have great intellectual property protection, and have efficient ways to enforce contracts.