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A comment on Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn. Parent comment

Re:Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn by smm2000 on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @11:17AM (#8395086)
Germany has not so far produced a single website or app that is hugely popular internationally. It does not mean it could not - it certainly have educated population to do it but the fact is it has not.
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Re:Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn by janmonschke on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @11:29AM (#8395214)
You obviously haven't heard of SoundCloud then ;) (founders are Swedes but company is based in Berlin)
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Re:Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn by smm2000 on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @12:10PM (#8395551)
Good point, I did not know about SoundCloud.
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Re:Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn by sucramb on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @11:25AM (#8395168)
Zalando made their IPO just yesterday. $768M collected and $6.8B market cap.
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Re:Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn by smm2000 on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @12:09PM (#8395542)
Zalando is European company with very few sales outside of EU.
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