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What is the company of the future like?
How do young startups manage to take over the world at a dazzling pace while trusted, established companies are going bankrupt? What developments would an entrepreneur or director need to keep track of in order to act at the right moment and seize the opportunities? How radically do you have to change to still be…
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Technology is racing forward
Orchid growing with Google Glass and a robot that folds your laundry Last October, Rabobank Gouwestreek organised an event entitled ‘New technologies: Google Glass’. Guest speakers Danny Mekić and Mike van Rijswijk told us all about the technological developments going on at the moment, and demonstrated Google’s flagship invention: Google Glass. “We live in interesting…
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Interview with Avenir, VU University Amsterdam
Danny Mekić (26) first became an entrepreneur at the age of 12, literally working from the attic of his parents’ house. Fourteen years later, he is working on his third company, a consultancy firm run by teenagers and people in their twenties, and he’s replaced his parents’ attic with the board rooms of 40 of…
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National cyber shelter keeps DDoS attacks outside the door
Recent DDoS attacks in the Netherlands, targeting banks, the airline KLM and the governmental identity management platform DigiD – each causing substantial financial losses – go to show how much society has come to depend on the internet, and how vulnerable vital websites and services are to this kind of attack, which, technologically speaking, could…
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‘I want to discover the world. I’ll learn to let go of my fear of sleeping on the streets.’
They’re the three young musketeers. Their eloquent and often contrarian views have made them into national celebrities. Sywert van Lienden (21), who wants to demolish the Dutch political establishment. Gadget guru Alexander Klöpping (25), who also makes many a lady’s heart overclock. And possibly the most versatile of the three, Danny Mekić (25). Internet entrepreneur,…
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“What it says on my business card? That depends on which one you mean.”
It’s not easy to arrange an appointment with Danny Mekić (1987). Not that he doesn’t want to see you; on the contrary, because he has the energy of ten people. But his agenda is just always packed and that’s why he has to choose carefully. This Amsterdam entrepreneur works among other things as a corporate…