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The Cloud — what an awful, vacuous term
‘Cloud computing’. What an awful, vacuous term. Computer usage with clouds. Even the average IT professional – never mind the average SMB owner – feels how intangible those words are and can’t make heads of tails of them. You can try it yourself the next time you run into some computer whizz. Ask them to…
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Entrepreneurship: ‘When it gets difficult, you’re doing it right’
Danny Mekić first became an entrepreneur at the age of fifteen and with his third company now, he works as a consultant to various multinationals. The internet expert urges entrepreneurs to continue to develop themselves and to promote themselves. This interview was published in the newsletter of UPC. Danny Mekić was born and raised in Amsterdam,…
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Drones: let them fly or ban them all?
A while ago, one passed me by as I was leaving the Central Station of the capital of the Netherlands: a drone. A quadrocopter, to be precise. Fortunately it managed to narrowly avoid crashing into a group of tourists. What was it doing there? Was it some 16 year old trying out their new birthday…
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Don’t ridicule the right to be forgotten
The recent verdict by the European Court of Justice is on a lot of people’s minds. If Google shows irrelevant results when you search a person’s name, that person can request to have those results omitted — provided that the search string was their name. Is that an improvement of the right to privacy, or…
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Entrepreneurship in 2020
If you were born before the dot-com bubble, read this! — from the Dutch book ‘Ondernemen in 2020’ Technology is developing fast, very fast. Many entrepreneurs are having trouble keeping up. Understandably, because most entrepreneurs were born before the internet. Young entrepreneur Danny Mekić advises large companies on their online strategies. “The roots of large,…
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Digital magazines: A new form of consumption?
Quality and distinctiveness are crucial for online magazines Being an internet expert, a consultant to the CEOs of major organisations and a successful entrepreneur, Danny Mekić has strong opinions on various strategic issues at play in the Dutch business world. In this article, he looks ahead at developments within online marketing and explains his views…