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… Zoekresultaten 22 juni 2017 door: in Alumni In this article I discuss several differences between startups and starting businesses. I find this important because over the last year, I’ve gotten increasingly frustrated about the types of questions I (as a startup founder) would get. “Can you already live from your startup?” “Why is raising money is … as possible! The starting business The starting business is a different story. You will usually have to make certain investments before starting your company. If you start your consulting business this will be a printer, laptop, business cards, a website etc. If you sell actual products, you will have to bear the costs of the first production batch. But because you operate in a more defined industry or you sell your own hours, you should get out the downwards curve soon. With starting … or sell more products. But, there is a maximum as to how much this graph can go up because costs will rise with new sales. 4. The Business Plan The startup As a startup, you should be experimenting. Product, business model, revenue model, customer groups. If I’d have to write a 40 page business plan every time I’d make a change in our proposition, I would be doing that full-time and still would not finish it. Luckily, there are things like the Business Model Canvas , the Lean Canvas or the Next …
… gaps – platforms such as Technolawgeeks and LeD. In October, the grassroots initiative I am proud to have launched back in 2016 together with ELS alumna and former staff member Caroline Calomme and DKE/ELS student Arturo Sanchez Barbado, and which started the year with a super exciting Hackathon , has hosted its most recent feat: Technolaweeks – a series of events taking place at different locations around Maastricht, which aim to bring together enthusiasts of law and technology: a talk by Marcel … The Hague Institute for the Innovation of Law (HiiL) organizes annually the Innovating Justice Challenge to find the best justice entrepreneurs in the world. On 2 October 2018, the Dutch Regional Finals took place in The Hague, The Netherlands. Six start-ups presented their projects within a four-minutes speech in the hope of securing funding and acceleration support. All around the world, billions of people lack access to justice when they encounter a legal issue in their everyday life. It can … 5. AcodeIT – an online platform which enables people to follow the status of their legal cases with a visual timeline. acodeit.com 6. Lexilu – centralised information on rights and obligations for foreign workers abroad via an offline app or online website. The start-ups presented their projects based on the four following criteria: impact, sustainability, scalability and overall presentation. According to the audience, the best entrepreneur is New Dutch Connections – Know Your Rights . However, …
… recognising that businesses have a role to play in protecting and promoting human rights. The UN Human Rights Council unanimously approved the “ Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ” put forward by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General John Ruggie. Moreover, the Human Rights Guidelines for Pharmaceutical Companies in relation to Access to Medicines , formulated by former Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Paul Hunt, implore the pharmaceutical industry to … Foundation . Email: katrina.perehudoff@gmail.com Twitter:@KatPerehudoff Jennifer Sellin is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, a member of the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights in the Netherlands, and momentarily a visiting professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. She is a member of the advisory council of the Pharmaceutical Accountability Foundation . Email: jennifer.sellin@maastrichtuniversity.nl Labels: human rights …
… Member States, including Italy, Greece, Slovenia, Hungary, Cyprus and Malta. However, Croatia is one Member State that has continuously remained in the limelight for its violent and illegal pushbacks. In mid-December 2020, the European political group ‘The Left’ published the “ The Black Book of Pushbacks ”, a two-volume publication, spanning over 1500 pages documenting testimonies of “sadistic, merciless, humiliating and degrading” violence, amounting to torture and ill-treatment, carried out … in question, as stipulated in Article 51. Thus, the Commission should make use of its powers to adopt measures, such as infringement proceedings (see for instance those adopted against Hungary’s border practice), when Member States infringe EU law. Starting infringement proceedings, as it stands, is a discretionary power. However, in cases of serious fundamental rights violations, is it not appropriate and timely to acknowledge that the Charter may impose a duty on the Commission to make use of …
… issues, foreshadowing the potential for enhanced cooperation in this area. When disembarkation and relocation of those rescued takes place, it is organised in an ad hoc manner, ‘ship-by-ship’. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, small scale, voluntary, ad hoc relocation arrangements for the benefit of Greece have also been the EU’s response to the humanitarian crisis facing asylum seekers, including unaccompanied minors, residing in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions on the islands of Eastern Aegean. While in the short-term these ad hoc actions may provide some reprieve, they are not sustainable. Solidarity à-la-carte has been found to downgrade the consistency of the EU asylum acquis, and to fail …
… culture, I agree that too many product development teams misuse MVP this way. While approaches deal with that in different ways, I feel like they overlook one crucial thing… However we choose to make an MVP, we need to make it meaningful. Lean Startup, Summarized First, some quick background. MVP stands for “Minimum Viable Product,” and it refers to a key component of the Lean Startup methodology . Lean Startup is a process for developing products by validating assumptions at every step of the way. Instead of spending years and millions on developing a huge product that might fail, show something cheap to a small group of people and see if it works. If it fails, the losses are small; if it succeeds, make it a little bigger and keep trying. Check out Eric Ries’ book for more . Different Approaches Jussi Pasanen’s MVP Pyramid Model beautifully illustrates the … start working on a marketable product and validating whether the product fits the solution and the market. Eric Ries uses Zappos (the online shoe marketplace) as a wonderful example of what he calls a concierge MVP . They didn’t start with a crappy website with crappy customer service and crappy shoes. “They went to local shoe store, took pictures of each of their products and put them online. If anyone bought shoes from them [at this early stage], they planned to go to the store, buy the shoes, …
… Zoekresultaten 14 juli 2022 door: V. Golunova in Law The horrendous military activities of Russia in Ukraine have caused a severe backlash from tech giants. YouTube clamped down on Kremlin-backed channels for spreading war propaganda. Meta allowed its users to wish death to Russian armed forces. On top of that, Twitter … Russian government was strikingly different. For more than a decade, Big Tech platforms have been taking down content criticising Russian authorities or Putin’s inner circle. What is more, in September 2021, two days prior to the infamous parliamentary elections in Russia, Apple and Google complied with a government-issued order and blocked the Smart Voting app, which contained tactical voting guidelines designed to support opposition candidates and resist the ruling party United Russia. While … seem that tech giants have become the strongest force disrupting the rule of law. Yet, the generalised conclusion that public power is currently in decay seems unjustified. Many states still hold extensive powers to shut down internet access, block websites , and co-opt platforms to lay down restrictions on the entire digital infrastructure on their behalf. As a result, platforms frequently become mechanisms of expanding coercive practices of states in the online realm. Accordingly, Anita …
… B.E.F.M. de Witte in Law Jean Monnet (1888-1979) is, in some ways, an unlikely person to be honoured by having a university hall called after him. Indeed, Monnet left school at the age of sixteen, never obtained a university degree, and indeed never started university studies. He grew up in the city of Cognac as the son of a négociant , a trader in the famous local fortified wines. From the age of 19, the young Jean started to travel across the world to sell the ‘cognac Monnet’ (a brand that still exists today). He had no time to undertake university studies. So, if he was not a ‘great jurist’, why can a law faculty such as that of Maastricht justifiably honour … Coal and Steel Community, the predecessor of the current Commission of the European Union. After resigning from that function, in January 1956, he established the Comité d’action pour les Etats-Unis de l’Europe, which became an influential advocacy group in the 1960s. He believed in the importance of gathering a European elite of political and economic actors who would help to advance the integration process and who would, in turn, persuade the citizens of Europe. His strategy of fostering an …
… in November 2016, Demirtaş was the co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the third largest party in the Turkish Parliament. The Grand Chamber held, among others, that Demirtaş’ detention left him unable to take part in parliamentary activities and infringed not only his electorate’s free expression of opinion, but also his own right to be elected and to sit at Parliament. In addition to Article 3 of Protocol no. 1, the detention violated Article 18 (in conjunction with … HDP deputy, Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, of his immunity. The official ground was the Court of Cassation’s 19 February ruling upholding his conviction for “ spreading terrorist propaganda ”. The actual reason was ulterior: to silence an outspoken parliamentarian who stuck a particular nerve by campaigning against the routine strip searches of female detainees. Also on 17 March, the Court of Cassation petitioned the Turkish Constitutional Court (TCC), asking for the HDP’s dissolution and a five-year … 700 of its members. While the TCC returned the indictment on procedural grounds, it can (and likely will) be resubmitted after the rectification of errors. Déjà vu or a new era? Turkey has a history of suppressing Kurdish democratic representation. Starting with the first one set up in 1990, the TCC closed every pro-Kurdish party (five in total), liquidating them and transferring their assets to the Treasury and imposing political bans on their senior members. In one case, Kurdish …
… with Chanel’s active brand-protection agenda (e.g. ‘no Shanel’, ‘no number 5’). Ye responded with two main arguments: (1) his store was merely a franchise store of Zhoubaifu, a brand that belongs to Hong Kong ZhouBaifu Jewelry International Group Co., Ltd (Zhoubaifu Ltd), meaning only the products that had passed the quality inspections conducted by Zhoubaifu Ltd were allowed to be sold in Ye’s store, and those products all contained the registered trade mark of ‘Zhoubaifu’ – far from …