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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. Our population churns out 181 patents per million inhabitants ranking us #8 in the world – ahead of the US, South Korea and Norway. On both these indicators, the Netherlands ranks second worldwide.

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ProfessorVC: Is it the Horse or Jockey?

Professor VC

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Hvide analyzed 6,800 companies that started between 1996 and 2003 in Norway. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ProfessorVC. Friday, June 6, 2008. Is it the Horse or Jockey? This leaves a relatively small sample. ► January. (1).

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

The two companies have collaborated for a long time, with Facebook using Face.com’s technology to help users tag the faces of friends in pictures they upload on the social network with Face.com’s Photo Tagger service. This is Facebook’s second acquisition in Israel, following the acquisition of Snaptu for $70m in March 2011.

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