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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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We crowdfunded $1.7 million for a new online news publication. This is our story so far.

The Next Web

Ernst-Jan Pfauth is the former Editor in Chief of Internet at NRC Handelsblad, as well as an acclaimed technology author and columnist. To put that in perspective: with the Netherlands having only 16.8 He also served as The Next Web’s blog’s first blogger and Editor in Chief, back in 2008. Here’s our story. From ‘news’ to ‘new’.

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10 Companies Want To Show You The Money

YoungUpstarts

Requirements: You must have access to a web cam and a reliable Internet connection. Currently available in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Spain, Norway, Germany, Portugal, Netherlands, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the USA.

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

The Next Web

But hedonistic pleasures aside, The Netherlands actually has a great foundation for tech entrepreneurship. The Netherlands ranks top place in a large number of ICT indicators. We boast the world’s second highest fixed broadband Internet subscription rate only an inch behind Sweden. The Netherlands remains open for business.

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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. Even to me that is still an amazing thing.

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Twitter Link Roundup #242 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

and the Internet of Things | UX Booth – crowdspring.co/1wjvAJt. and the Internet of Things | UX Booth – crowdspring.co/1wjvAJt. Glow-In-The-Dark Highways Open In The Netherlands | Co.Design – crowdspring.co/1wXq6DJ. This week’s Fresh from the SPRING features cS Creative, diselgl! | @crowdSPRING Blog – crowdspring.co/1Eigo27.

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Divalicious Puts A Shopping Mall In Your Hand

YoungUpstarts

Serial entrepreneur Weyrich has started three Internet companies and three mobile app companies since the age of 22, and recently sold a Catholic Dating service he owned and operated in 2007 to a competitor. Other functions include wish lists, as well as social sharing via email, Facebook and Twitter.

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