Why Is Europe Failing to Create More $1B Startups?

Re:Why Is Europe Failing to Create More $1B Startups? by raverbashing on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @02:16PM (#10222255)

On that subject, how many Unicorns Canada has?

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Re:Why Is Europe Failing to Create More $1B Startups? by throwaway859876 on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @02:58PM (#10222508)

Prehistoric times: Nortel, Mitel, Corel, RIM

Recent times: possibly Shopify, one other moved to USA

Most money in Canada is controlled by civil pension funds, who don't like smallish investments for big risks.

Thus a large percentage of software engineers move to USA, and are active in Silicon Valley.

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Re:Why Is Europe Failing to Create More $1B Startups? by briandear on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @02:25PM (#10222315)

Canada only has about 15 people though.

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Re:Why Is Europe Failing to Create More $1B Startups? by yxhuvud on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @02:41PM (#10222418)

It is not as if Sweden has more.

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Re:Why Is Europe Failing to Create More $1B Startups? by aianus on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @05:07PM (#10223210)

Blackberry, until recently.

Canada suffers from dutch disease; it's simply too easy and profitable to dig stuff up (oil, diamonds, gold, potash, etc.) instead of producing value through software or technology.

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