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The Problem is the Advertising, Not the Ad Blocker

crowdSPRING Blog

After all, the clever little extensions that give the rest of us a faster, cleaner, less irritating web experience are eating away at ROI for advertisers and revenue for publishers. The fact of the matter is that traditional digital advertising space, whether ad blockers are a thing or not, is simply not as valuable as it used to be.

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

The Next Web

To put that in perspective: with the Netherlands having only 16.8 In 2010, philosopher Rob Wijnberg (1982) became the editor in chief of nrc.next , the morning edition of NRC Handelsblad , the Netherlands’ premier daily national newspaper. Apart from promoting some of our articles in Facebook posts, we don’t advertise.

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

crowdSPRING Blog

5 Must-Use Tools for Brainstorming Company Names – crowdspring.co/1wehUO7. “Everyone who doesn’t have his head up ass knows online advertising is a corrupt freak show of cosmic proportions” crowdspring.co/1G2J5lp. Digital to Overtake TV Ad Spending in Two Years: Forrester | Advertising Age - crowdspring.co/1x56P4i.

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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

The unimportance of product names. Don’t waste too much time on picking a perfect name for your product. And what about picking a name that’s available as a domain? Obsessing over a name is an easy time trap to fall into when you should be focused on more important obstacles (i.e. Apr 27 2010. Ty Fujimura.

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How One Entrepreneur is Helping International Students Find Housing With Ease

Hearpreneur

Housing Anywhere was founded by a student, Niels, from the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) Erasmus University, the Netherlands in 2009. How did you come up with your business name? For advertisers HousingAnywhere gives them another opportunity to offer their inventory to a market they wouldn’t be able to reach with an agency.

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Why you should pay attention to these 8 emerging tech hubs

The Next Web

Eindhoven, Netherlands. And this is just one of the many pioneering technologies surfacing out of this mid-sized Southern city of the Netherlands. It’s home to hot startups like leading 3D printing marketplace Shapeways , interactive education service Gynzy and real-time advertising platform Flxone. Pune, India?.

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Understand the tricks Multinationals use to avoid paying tax

Start Up Blog

A jurisdiction where the tax rates are lower, think Singapore, Ireland, the Netherlands, the Cayman Islands. Trick 1: Pay excessive amounts for rights to use brands names, intellectual property or other non physical assets the parent company owns. Oh, and a ‘Related Party’ is essentially ‘them’. Tricks Multinationals do to avoid tax.