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Charging on Afghan Batteries

June 24, 2010

Listening to the phenomenal (plug) new
The Chemical Brothers album ‘Further’ on Spotify is no coincidence. Recently, news about countries and their mineral supplies have been flooding the news sites and blogs. Time for some (chemical) refinement while reading the following articles.
ast week, when hearing about the ‘discovery’ of several mineral sites spread throughout Afghanistan, [...]

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Nokia to invest in Twibble?

October 11, 2009

I lured you in with that headline, didn’t I? But it’s still a real good question.
On September 30, the best Twitter client for Nokia phones – twibble – ambushed their users. With no notice, they limited features and began asking for money for twibble. But, they were sneaky about it, they did [...]

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Lessons To Learn From/For Dutch Entrepreneurs (Part I)

October 7, 2009

Recently, Erwin Blom’s initiative Starthub.nl spawned a video series of interviews with people from the Dutch start-up and investor scene. The series include talks about the latest trends in Dutch business start-up community and what one can learn from entrepreneurs and investors to inspire more people to start their own companies.

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Surprised Startup: Views From Behind The Steering Wheel

September 3, 2008

November 2006, Weesp, Holland
On a night in November 2006, Christian and I decided to revamp our ideas on the subject of recommendation. Ideas we have started to work on about 11 years earlier. Now 13 years after our first meeting we finally have that start up, which is specifically funded to bring these ideas to [...]

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eMerce.nl Announces Our Recommendation Startup

August 9, 2008

Last monday morning, i was suprised with a phone call from well-known internet journalist Peter Olsthoorn asking questions about our new startup called Kimengi. Shortly after the call, I realised he was on my mailinglist and i had sent a mail explaining that i had left Locatienet.com, a leading web company for maps and directions [...]

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