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5 top investors in Dutch startups discuss trends, hopes and 2020 opportunities

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based tech founders are welcomed with open arms. Adyen launched in 2006, and in June 2018, it was listed as one of Europe’s largest tech IPOs with a value of €7 billion. Elastic, the provider of subscription-based data search software used by Dell, Netflix, The New York Times and others, was another gangbuster IPO in 2018.

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Does Atlantic Canada have a blueprint for rural revival in the post-pandemic era?

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Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America? Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” More posts by this contributor. In Latin America, the business of trolling threatens Twitter’s disruptive power.

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Making sense of Klarna

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Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the co-founder and CEO of Klarna — the Swedish fintech “buy now, pay later” sensation that is currently Europe’s most valuable private tech company — is dismissive of the suggestion that non U.S. “We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says.

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Making sense of Klarna

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Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the co-founder and CEO of Klarna — the Swedish fintech “buy now, pay later” sensation that is currently Europe’s most valuable private tech company — is dismissive of the suggestion that non U.S. “We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says.

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The True Potential of Cleantech: An Interview with Jason Holt

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In 2006, our group published a high-profile paper in Science on the concept of water filtration with nanotubes. The market potential, business model, and technology sounded compelling enough that I joined them as a third co-founder later that year. But what inevitably happens is they end up relying on investors for strategic advice.

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