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TNW (website)

TNW (website) is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand TNW (website) rather than just read about it. In short: TNW (The Next Web) is a website and annual series of conferences focused on new technology and start-up companies in Europe. The Next Web company was established in 2006 by co-founders Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten and Patrick de Laive in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and a technology news website of the same name was started in 2009.

Key takeaways

TNW (website) belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect TNW (website) to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of TNW (website) from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

TNW (The Next Web) is a website and annual series of conferences focused on new technology and start-up companies in Europe. The Next Web company was established in 2006 by co-founders Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten and Patrick de Laive in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and a technology news website of the same name was started in 2009. TNW's reporting has been sourced by Wired, Mashable, and the Huffington Post, among others. On 5 March 2019, the Financial Times purchased a majority stake in TNW. On September 6, 2021, former CEO, Boris stepped down and handed the position to Myrthe van de Erve who was the former COO. In 2025, TNW announced it would shut down its events and media operations, holding its last conference in June, while its coworking business continues to operate. According to de Laive, it took one year for thenextweb.com to reach 100,000 monthly visitors, and at June 2016 it was getting 8 million to 10 million monthly visitors.

Conferences

Speakers at TNW Conferences have included Gary Vaynerchuk, Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands, and Robert Cailliau. In 2017, The Next Web's Amsterdam conference came under fire for making misleading statements, and having a lack of transparency about paying presenters for speaking appearances, and for having a gender gap in the number of its male and female presenters, and a gender pay gap in their compensation. In 2020 the event was fully online and for their 2021 event they held a hybrid and smaller event because of COVID-19 restrictions in the Netherlands.

See also Consumer Electronics Show Web Summit Slush (event)

References

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with TNW (website)

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what TNW (website) claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to TNW (website) before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about TNW (website) ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of TNW (website)

In research: TNW (website) appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses TNW (website) in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: TNW (website) is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2006 establishments in the Netherlands, 2019 mergers and acquisitions, International conferences in the Netherlands, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for TNW (website) outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study TNW (website) in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what TNW (website) means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain TNW (website) out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is TNW (website) in simple terms?

Why does TNW (website) matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study TNW (website)?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on TNW (website).