Ask HN: Best Startup City - Outside the USA?

Re:Ask HN: Best Startup City - Outside the USA? by dotcoma on Sunday August 01, 2010 @03:52PM (#1565939)

IMHO the only place in Europe where there's been real innovation - and not just copycats of American startups - is Scandinavia. Think Linux (Finland), Opera (Norway), Skype, MySql, Spotify etc (Sweden).

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Re:Ask HN: Best Startup City - Outside the USA? by agaton on Sunday August 01, 2010 @07:18PM (#1566343)

Yes, come to Scandinavia! It's happening a lot here, there's some great iniatives to become a real innovation hub for tech companies. And most importantly - we have competence and willingness to make great inventions. Stockholm is the natural hub, but both Helsinki, Copenhagen, Oslo & Malmö is great. The South of Sweden have become a great place with many iniatives, companies and events.

I know, we have higher taxes, but it's a lot cheaper than UK (for example).

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Re:Ask HN: Best Startup City - Outside the USA? by dotcoma on Monday August 02, 2010 @02:17AM (#1567001)

Hi, are there any links you can share about the South of Sweden? Many thanks! :)

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