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Governments: No more external consultants for IT
IT and the government: MPs playing Mark Zuckerberg is not such a good idea “I had to google what IT means, exactly,” chairperson of the House of Representatives Anouchka van Miltenburg candidly blurted out last Wednesday, upon receiving the inquiry report into governmental IT disasters presented to her by commission president Ton Elias. It wasn’t…
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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 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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About Trust, Transparency, Authenticity, Meaning, Image and Entrepreneurship
Danny Mekić (1987) is a born entrepreneur. He started his first internet company at the age of 15. After winning a number of awards in 2009, he started appearing in the media more and more often. This caused him to end up in the phone books of the ‘éminence grise’, who invited him to all…
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Technological battle for the future
During the Christmas holidays, I always visit a lot of fellow entrepreneurs. Retailers try to take advantage of the holiday rush – their devotion and ambition is an inspiration – and others use the time to look ahead to the future, aside from the usual festivities. But they’re all concerned with the question in which…
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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…