Source to Success
StartupDelta is almost at the end of its planned time to exist. In June the platform should have attracted a sufficient amount of traction to make it self sustainable. StartupDelta has had a very brief time to achieve very big goals. Within 18 months it aimed to move up the ranking scale and become part […] Read more »
Rankings and scores always capture the imagination of people. They give you a bird’s eye view on a specific topic, a summary of the key results on a particular theme and therefore your best conversation guide at parties. For people that are directly involved in the specific topic there is a more important reason to […] Read more »
The Netherlands has a tremendous amount of interesting tech vendors, some of which get more attention than others. In an earlier post we discussed the lack of marketing power we sometimes see with Dutch IT vendors. This time we take a closer look at those that are able to catch the limelight: the Dutch Tech […] Read more »
Last week Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported that Ordina negotiated a refinance of their outstanding debt with ABN and ING worth €30 million. It is not the first time Ordina negotiated a deal with the banks. Back in 2009 it badly needed credit and got €120 million from ING, ABN, NIBC and RABO. To settle […] Read more »
In our previous blog we calculated the Dutch Gross Domestic Digital Product (GDDP) at € 129 billion almost a quarter of GDP. However this is only the direct effect of ICT on the Dutch economy. In reality the impact of ICT on the Dutch economy goes somewhat further than that. The € 129 billion of […] Read more »
Robots are hot these days. Until recently only some people feared that robots could and would take over much of our work. Most economists still believe that robots will free workers from laborious monotonous work in sweat shops. They will also readily admit that robots are about to take over more skilled work as well. […] Read more »