Word: amsterdams
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...surprisingly, given all this, VCs are finding it almost impossible to raise new money. And that means "a lot of new companies are having trouble getting funded," says Dick Rempt, who, with Heise co-founded SecondWind Venture Capital Recovery in Amsterdam. "Venture capital is really crucial to innovation, so it is in the interest not only of the venture capitalists and their investors but also of the tech sector as a whole that this be resolved...
...appears set to merge Buzz and Basiq Air, its Amsterdam-based budget brand, in order to cut costs and streamline management. In retrospect, British Airways' exit from the low-cost business last year - when it sold Go to venture capital firm 3i for 3158 million, only to see Go be sold again to easyJet for almost four times the price - looks short-sighted indeed...
...more interested in tinkering in his father's machine shop in Amsterdam than in listening to teachers, so he dropped out of school at age 14 and never went back. Kok eventually landed a job at Dutch electronics giant Philips, but he dropped out of that too when the bosses wouldn't listen to his idea for a cheaper way to make compact discs...
...open-source operating system Linux. "Never mind the rights of consumers." The ability to transfer a CD from your stereo to your PC or to copy a newspaper article for private use "is a matter that concerns us all," says copyright expert P. Bernt Hugenholtz of the University of Amsterdam. "Such freedoms are - or should be - inherent qualities of any information product." Johansen agrees, which is why he felt justified in playing DVDs on his PC. The industry thinks the potential cost of such freedom is too high, but the cost of stifling it may be higher. "Many - even most...
...Breeders started out as a side project helmed by Kim Deal, bassist for the late-'80s college rock band the Pixies. If in 1992 you were a teenage girl who considered attending the Rhode Island School of Design as a less adventurous alternative to the expatriate life in Amsterdam, odds are pretty good that you were into their first album, "Pod." Nobody even pretended to establish a foothold on the lyrics (Example: "She's in a kitchen in Kentucky/ And she thinks she's Peter Pan") but the cover art made it reasonably clear the vegetable of the title referred...