Tag: startup
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Predator City
Gelezen in ‘White City, Black City’ (2015) van Sharon Rotbard: Tel Aviv is booming. Haar groeicijfers zijn indrukwekkend. Niet alleen langs de kust, maar ook landinwaarts worden in hoog tempo nieuwe torens gebouwd. De stad werkt als een magneet op hippe techies, de benaming van Israël als een ‘Start-Up Nation’ heeft ook alles met de…
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Size, density, proximity
Heard in Brooklyn, NYC, on 19 October 2015: His name: Eddie Summers. Mr. Summers is the executive director of Brooklyn Education Innovation Network, NYC (BE.IN). He showed us around in Brooklyn. His walk was more than twenty kilometers long, the weather was beautiful, although a bit cold. We crossed downtown Brooklyn, headed for DUMBO,…
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Startup delta
Read in The Economist of 25 July 2015: > It’s called a ‘briefing’. Subject: Silicon Valley. In The Economist of 25 July the message was: “the tech boom may get bumpy, but it will not end in a repeat of the dotcom crash.” It was a description of how the Greater San Francisco region is…