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This represents about the nicest apartment in Amsterdam. Things get cheaper the further you move from the center. And what "most rental agencies" require doesn't affect us. We have…

It's not by foreigners for foreigners. Our attendees, and our volunteers, are about half expat, half local. Appsterdam will be a benefit to App Makers around the world, and also a …

Appsterdam events are in English. Other tech events in the city are usually some mixture of English and Dutch, depending on whether the audience is international.

You are, if you will pardon the expression, talking out of your ass. I brought Appsterdam to Sofa. I kept Appsterdam when Sofa left. Even if I died tomorrow, Appsterdam would conti…

Rain doesn't bother me. Smog bothers me. Tasers bother me. Not being able to afford healthcare bothers me. My family has been in California for six generations, and I love it, but …

Appsterdam also has an amazing housing agent who specializes in expats. I have a ground level apartment with a courtyard on the canal at Groenburgwal, which is in my opinion the ni…

Actually the Netherlands has amazing tax incentives for technology companies. It's quite common for tech companies here to pay essentially no payroll taxes. Things like VAT passthr…

That's good feedback and we will have more of that sort of thing in the future, as well as direct help. A lot of this stuff is on my blog, http://mur.mu.rs . One clarification thou…

How is it growing as a hub exactly? Did you actually read the article? ;) Luckily Appsterdam is not limited to Amsterdam. This isn't a pissing match between Dutch cities. It's abou…

Your pessimism seems endemic in European culture. It's actually a bigger problem, to my mind, than anything else you've mentioned here. As I like to say, Americans need to calm the…

First, the funding here is metaphorical. What we're trying to do is capitalize a company as if it were angel funded. The metaphorical return on that investment is a company vetted …