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6 tips to bridge cultural differences in marketing communication

The Startup Magazine

Because your service is a hit in the Netherlands, doesn’t mean the German market is waiting for your initiative. For example: a license plate check to retrieve the damage history of second-hand cars might work well in the Netherlands, but not in countries where a license plate is linked to a person and the car. Avoid assumptions.

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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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Leveraging your social networks for crowdfunding success [Guest post by RocketHub]

VC Cafe

With the advent of modern social networking (and sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.), we are more connected to our extended network of friends and supporters than ever before. RocketHub wants to empower the people behind the projects, and leverage their social networks to get more done.

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Top Locations For Small Business Professionals: LinkedIn

YoungUpstarts

Savvy small business owners know the power of professional networking, but in recent times they’ve also climbed onto the bandwagon of online professional networking with LinkedIn , the world’s largest professional network with more than 175 million members worldwide. who are small business professionals.).

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[Infographic] Top Office Pet Peeves

YoungUpstarts

Professional social network LinkedIn recently released some data about the top office pet peeves that really annoy professionals. Other countries include Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, and the U.K. Do you want to know what really gets someone’s goat in the office?

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Surprise Is One Of The Most Powerful Small Business Marketing Tools

crowdSPRING Blog

Customers not only talk about their delight on social networks, but also love the experience so much that when they next purchase shoes, they will again buy from Zappos. Zappos doesn’t charge extra for this service and doesn’t tell customers in advance that it will upgrade their shipping.

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Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

Pick a similar product that they do use, and ask them "who was the first person you know who started using [social networking, mobile phones, plasma TV, instant messaging.]? In the Netherlands being a entrepreneur very unusual. can I talk to them?" September 19, 2008 2:27 PM gmlk said. September 19, 2008 2:35 PM gmlk said.