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

The Next Web

Slowly but surely, however, we have a quietly emerging ‘ecosystem’ (as it is often called in tech lingo). So is the Dutch tech startup story sold short? But hedonistic pleasures aside, The Netherlands actually has a great foundation for tech entrepreneurship. Not in my view. A top-notch infrastructure.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

According to the Harvard Business Review, in most U.S. it is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit, but because of its dedication to sustainability, it is now working with local communities to form separate stove manufacturing factories in their countries. Here in the U.S. Maryland was the first U.S. state to adopt this structure in 2010.

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22 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2020

Hearpreneur

2020 may have been a bad year for especially due to COVID-19 pandemic while to others, it was a great year. Thanks to Steve Keighery, Home Buyer Louisiana ! #3- Seeing this extra time as an opportunity allowed me to teach my 18-year-old son (who was home from college due to COVID closure) how to flip his first condo.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Loading… Tech. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Mossberg Reviews the iPhone 5. Web Design/Tech Services. » More. » More. Loading… New York. » More. » More. Loading… Business. » More. » More.

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Finding Your Fire And Igniting Change

Duct Tape Marketing

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! You know, when I looked at my professional career, there's this through line for me, I worked in television that I pivot into working in the nonprofit space and then move into the tech sector. That would be harmful to the work that we do and to our communities.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

fast.ai , the company he co-founded with Rachel Thomas and Sylvain Gugger is working to "radically democratize" deep learning by making it accessible to people beyond the tech world through courses, software and other methods. Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community.