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

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While taxes are high, entrepreneurs won’t find the staggering income inequality so often seen in cities like San Francisco and New York. 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. This can be professional, personal or a mix of the two.

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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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The True Potential of Cleantech: An Interview with Jason Holt

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Here steps in Jason Holt, former staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, serial entrepreneur, and a seasoned investment advisor. In 2006, our group published a high-profile paper in Science on the concept of water filtration with nanotubes. Venture investment in the sector has remained pretty flat the last several years.

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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

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Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. by February 2006). Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds. Read on for a fuller explanation.

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Data obscures positive trends in VC dollars reaching women-founded startups

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Mimi Aboubaker is an entrepreneur and writer. In my view, the correct statistic is about 18%, not 2% — as we should take into account deals that had mixed-gender founding teams. In my view, the correct statistic is about 18%, not 2% — as we should take into account deals that had mixed-gender founding teams. Mimi Aboubaker.

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Making sense of Klarna

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“If I am buying some items and feel a bit unsafe about the merchant I’m using, if there’s a credit card, I don’t feel like I’m risking my money. 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. There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it.