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

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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. What are some overlooked opportunities right now?

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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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“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. We also learn how, under his watch and as the company began to scale, Klarna missed the next big opportunity in fintech, instead being usurped by Adyen and Stripe. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online.

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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. FourSquare obviously brings up a lot of interesting commercial opportunities.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. We also learn how, under his watch and as the company began to scale, Klarna missed the next big opportunity in fintech, instead being usurped by Adyen and Stripe. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online.

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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. There is still money to be made, but it needs to be used in different and more intelligent ways. But what inevitably happens is they end up relying on investors for strategic advice. which I have begun to adopt.

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