Tag: Netherlands

  • Learning by doing

    Learning by doing

    Young graduates and the job market. That’s the subject of this magazine. What do the young expect? What do they have to offer to the entrepreneur, and vice versa? Does education adequately match the job market in the 21st century? To get to the point right away: I think the answer is simply NO. No,…

  • The balance sheet of Danny Mekić

    Danny Mekić (24) is the owner of NewTeam, a consultant and the writer of Entrepreneur in a Week, to be published in the near future. He was declared most successful young entrepreneur in the Netherlands by Sprout in 2009 and says he never spends money on meat. Flair When I give a lecture, I rarely park…

  • The internet is a wonderful gift. To a controlling government.

    The internet is a wonderful gift. To a controlling government.

    “The internet is the only place left where people can live in freedom. Not bothered by any limitations: no body scans, pre-emptive searching or security cameras (with or without audio). There’s none of that pre-emptive DNA fingerprinting chip-in-your-thumb personalised-chip-cards-for-everything road-pricing-by-the-kilometre I-don’t-have-anything-to-hide business we used to have around the beginning of this century. Information exchange on…

  • Downloading is not theft: the record player doesn’t work any more

    Downloading is not theft: the record player doesn’t work any more

    Last week, Sony announced they were going to  stop manufacturing walkmans  — you know, those things with the audio cassettes — while Arnoud Engelfriet and I wrote an opinion piece on online innovation in the music and film industry: are they succeeding at making money off distributing copyrighted material? Downloading is not theft, because copyrights…

  • Paying with your privacy

    Yesterday, Facebook was taking flak again about services like FarmVille and Family Tree leaking personal information to advertising companies. Although in this case, Facebook has stated this is not desirable and is taking steps to deal with it, one has to wonder if we’re not generally too quick to blindly agree to our data being…

  • What do you want to be? Tempus fugit, time flies

    What do you want to be? Tempus fugit, time flies

    When I was admitted into the University of Amsterdam at the age of twenty, without a high school diploma, it opened my eyes to a whole new world. Finally the moment had come to enter college, to go do what pretty much everyone says will tame your wild spirit, where you’ll end up with ten…