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What brotchie and petervandijck said, also:

* Put some effort into the design. Writing plain HTML while also indicating you have run a website and have front-end experience might seem contradictory to a potential employer. A nice font, simple layout and basic responsiveness would go a long way.

* A startup exit, even if small, is a considerable achievement. Consider adding "Acquired by $COMPANY", or if not at liberty to disclose the company name, something like "Acquired by large German corporation".

* Add contact information. If I were to stumble upon your CV online and be interested in hiring you, I should not have to spend time Googling for some way to contact you. Listing your email in the footer is sufficient.

* I assume not getting your degree yet is because of a few pending courses - no need to mention this here. You did the majority of the work and actually completed a thesis project. When you are invited to an interview, disclose it there.

* Some of the stuff you list (machine learning libraries, contributions to poker theory) sound really interesting. Is there anything you could link to here? Blog post, Github, etc.

edit: typo

Re:'Panama Papers' Offshore Leaks Database on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @08:16AM (#11666645)
You can do this by leaving the search field blank and just selecting a country, which returns all entities/officers/intermediaries/addresses for a certain country
I work with the lower age groups of a primary school (age 6-10) and we have explored some basic concepts using the following:

Toys: * BlueBot / BeeBot. Simple robot programming with arrows. If you draw a grid on something transparent you can overlay it on maps/images and put "obstacles" in some of the squares that the robot has to be programmed to go around. * Makey Makey. Not programming so much but kids love the creative aspect and learn about hardware

not quite toys, but some useful iPad apps: * Free/creative: Scratch JR, Hopscotch * Guided/"missions": Kodable, A.L.E.X., Lego Fix The Factory

Also, as others have said, LEGO.

Re:The Swedish Number – Talk with a Random Swede on Monday April 11, 2016 @04:17PM (#11474747)
Also quite likely, it is due to the fact that Swedish rape law is quite different from many other countries in 2 aspects that have significant effect on statistics:

a) Every form of sex without consent is classified as rape, including "too drunk/asleep to say no" and sex within a marriage b) Every incident is recorded separately

So if a person is raped 5 times by his/her spouse, this would lead to 5 rapes in the Swedish statistics, as opposed to zero times (b/c within marriage) or 1 time (b/c same offender and victim) in many other places.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Sweden

Statistics for Sweden: http://www.lonestatistik.se/loner.asp/yrkeskategori/Data-IT-... (In Swedish, check "programmerare" for general programming jobs, "Webbutvecklare" for web devs)

Depending on skill/education, entry-mid level software jobs usually pay about 25000-30000 SEK/month (~4000 USD), before taxes. Larger companies may have agreements with unions on salary levels based on level of education/years of experience.

30k provides a pretty good quality of life, expect to take home ~23k after tax, depending on where you live you might pay ~7k in rent for a 2 bedroom apartment and ~3k on food.

Everyone speaks decent to good English and getting a job shouldn't be too hard, provided you have experience. The tricky part is dealing with the world-class bureaucracy of Skatteverket, the Swedish tax agency. Even for me, as an EU citizen, it was quite the paperwork mission.

I teach a programming class with ~50 kids, aged 9-15 and we got started using Scratch [1]. It's not quite coding but teaches a lot of important programming concepts, and is really easy and intuitive for kids to use.

After we played around a bit with the editor we checked out games that others had made, and the kids were super excited when they realized they could actualy build the games they had played themselves.

I'd let him/her play around in Scratch a bit, show some existing projects, and then build a game/project together from their interests (which is roughly what we do in our class).

[1]http://scratch.mit.edu

For sure! I just sent you an email (to the address in your profile).
I would definitely start out with a B.V. since it would be much easier and cheaper to set up, and less hassle/paperwork when tax time comes.

Then, when revenues justify the investment, I'd set it all up properly in the US with the help of a good attorney and/or accountant.

An important point here is that as a B.V. you would be governed under Dutch law if someone sued you. This should be disclosed in your terms and conditions as it will be considered unfair trade practice otherwise. If you feel you don't want to hire an expensive lawyer, I think the KvK has an export desk where they can help with these kinds of questions.

But it all depends on what kind of startup you have - if you have already validated the idea and have some investor/savings money I would hop on a plane and get it sorted there straight away :)

From my experience selling digital products to the U.S./international market, a very small percentage of visitors actually check the contact page (where they would find the business name/location). Unfortunately I did not A/B test displaying it more prominently so I don't know whether that would have improved conversions or not.

When choosing a payment processor, making sure that it handles the whole process should save you the hassle of setting up a merchant account (an account that allows you to accept credit card payments) with a US bank.

I am Dutch too and I know a B.V. (Dutch limited stock company) is allowed to be a "holding" company that owns all the shares in a foreign company - but I went to business school and not law school, so there might be some fine print you'd want to consult a lawyer about.

It'll be an expensive hassle though, so if you're not dealing with B2B I'd recommend getting the "trust indicators" consumers are looking for by getting a U.S. street address with Earth Class Mail and possibly a U.S. phone number (through Skype) that forwards to a Skype account in your company. You can always go the U.S. incorporation route when you have the revenue to finance/justify it.