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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. You may have an opinion on your market-entry strategy for Europe. Rob is one of the most driven and successful CEOs I work with.

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

The Next Web

Think of Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Guido van Rossem (founder of Python programming language and senior engineer at Dropbox) or the more senior Gerard Kleisterlee (chairman of Vodafone). At home we have entrepreneurs who think global day one. But if we’re honest, Amsterdam is currently outdone by several places in Europe.

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Kinnernet 2006 – geek camp

BeyondVC

At Kinnernet, I had the privilege to spend time with some great people from Israel, Europe, and the US. There were lots of robots, aerial shows with model planes and helicopters, great discussions on current technology trends, and of course, plenty of beer and laughs. All that being said, the numbers are still against the entrepreneur.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. Nothing says contraction negotiation like the smell of cordite. DirectX uses a left-hand coordinate system because it was originally written in Europe and called Rendermorphics.

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