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Interview Randstad Magazine
Danny Mekić is a management consultant in the area of technology, media, communication, entrepreneurship and innovation. He gives lectures, teaches classes and often appears on radio and television. Furthermore, he is part of the shadow cabinet of the Dutch entrepreneurs’ organisation ONL voor Ondernemers as its Minister of Technology. What does he consider the greatest…
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Bank of Tomorrow: the keywords are customisation and relevance
26 years old. Bright green sneakers, messy hairdo, an irreverent look in his eyes. Not much out of the ordinary so far. But while the bulk of his peers are looking for jobs, his agenda is booked solid until September 2014 with international consultancy assignments, lectures, workshops and radio and TV appearances: ‘internet guru’, entrepreneur,…
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Danny Mekić is after sustainable innovations
To let today’s solution be tomorrow’s solution too. Humankind in the West has accomplished great things. Our knowledge is richer than ever and information is available around the world. There are walnuts from Australia in European supermarkets, and we can eat strawberries any time of the year. Technology does much of our work for us,…
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“You’re allowed to have something to hide”
Nothing is a coincidence. His father moved to the Netherlands before the third Balkan war, after meeting a woman from Amsterdam on a holiday. “Grandpa stayed behind, along with the rest of my relatives. My father is a radio communications enthusiast. He has a license to communicate using powerful radios. We lived in a tall…
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The war against privacy
How relevant is data protection to people who are not currently in charge of a quoted company? How much data tracking do Facebook, Dropbox, Gmail, WeTransfer and our smartphones themselves do? Danny Mekić, fellow student at the faculty of law as well as entrepreneur, consultant and internet expert, at first blush doesn’t seem very worried…
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“To be able to innovate, you need to accept short term losses”
Love is blind, and love for new developments in the area of technology is even more so. Danny Mekić – IT consultant, founder and owner of strategic consultancy firm NewTeam, internet expert, writer and much more – knows that better than anyone. An so, he tells SME entrepreneurs: “Don’t fall in love too quickly.” That…