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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. On both these indicators, the Netherlands ranks second worldwide. The Netherlands remains open for business. A top-notch infrastructure.

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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

And while this was a good start, a significant position of these companies were early-stage startups. The goal of the sprint was validating the demand in the “IT integrators” vertical in 5 European countries: Belgium, Netherlands, France, Spain and England.

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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

The Next Web

It teaches you just how mundane the everyday existence of an early-stage startup is. Even the Netherlands is catching up, with FailCon NL taking place this week on March 4th, 2014 in Amsterdam. Like pretty much everything, it takes practice. And there’s no shame in that. Failure makes you resilient and persistent.

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Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley – Going to Where the Action Is

Steve Blank

Other companies operating in small markets with little R&D resources in their home country (ABB, Novartis and Hoffmann-La Roche in Switzerland, Philips in the Netherlands and Ericsson in Sweden) pursued R&D outside their home country by necessity. They let companies develop products to launch in world markets simultaneously.

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How To Name Your Startup And Brands

Brandanew

So if you’re an early stage thinking about how to name your Startups and small biz brands, read on… About the Startup. It reminded me of Netherlands. But I’m bringing in some parts that are relevant to branding , Startups and marketing over to the Brandanew blog. The first time I read the name, it puzzled me.

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Startup Equity Crowdfunding Grows in Europe (NESTA Report)

VC Cafe

investment is via a co–opertaive established in the netherlands. Entrepreneurs are unable to access debt financing (bank loans) in the early stages of the startup, due to the risky nature of their business and typically lack of revenue. . €<1m. of investment amount + transaction costs. entrepreneur decides.

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Startup Lessons Learned

Three premier early-stage venture investors have joined forces to sponsor the event: Baseline , Floodgate , and First Round Capital. Three premier early-stage venture investors have joined forces to sponsor the event: Baseline , Floodgate , and First Round Capital.