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

The Next Web

We are the most active Twitter country in the world (measured by tweets per account) and the third most socially networked. Mr. Willink would later bank roll the Louisiana Purchase - in someway a ‘super angel’ of the 18th century. We don’t have a ‘Paypal’ mafia, a Netscape brethren or an equivalent strong network in tech.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

In a quote that’s often attributed to Charles Darwin – but was in fact a Louisiana State University management professor paraphrasing Darwin in 1963 , “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. Now, with so much in flux, where do we go from here? Who flourishes? Yes, I passed up all that.