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

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The Netherlands’ ecosystem has been flourishing; more than $85 million was invested in regional startups in 2019 alone. In 2020, the venture industry continued to invest in startups, despite the COVID-19 crisis. 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.

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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.” With every VC investment, the region’s network of startups builds the social capital that can enable the next round of funding.

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The True Potential of Cleantech: An Interview with Jason Holt

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However, Cleantech has long been considered an investing black hole where it’s impossible to make money. Here steps in Jason Holt, former staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, serial entrepreneur, and a seasoned investment advisor. Venture investment in the sector has remained pretty flat the last several years.

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Making sense of Klarna

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“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. That only changed in 2019, when it decided to incur losses in favor of investing millions trying to conquer the U.S. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online. market, choosing New York and L.A.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. That only changed in 2019, when it decided to incur losses in favor of investing millions trying to conquer the U.S. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online. market, choosing New York and L.A.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it.