Germans don’t do tech startups – more access to capital might change that

Re:Germans don’t do tech startups – more access to capital m... by kayoone on Sunday September 30, 2018 @05:15AM (#18105328)

Well, I am a german and i'd argue we'd need to do it the SV way to have the same kind of global success stories. Sure your small german startup can be GDPR compliant and find it's niche, but making products of massive global scale is inherently harder here than it is in the US because of a number of things, only one of which is data privacy.

Not saying as a consumer i do not prefer EU privacy laws, I do, but it will be hard to compete on a global scale being handcuffed in a lot of these smaller areas. (privacy, language barriers, taxes, salaries etc)

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Re:Germans don’t do tech startups – more access to capital m... by opportune on Sunday September 30, 2018 @05:42AM (#18105417)

This may come as a surprise but most big companies are just making everything GDPR compliant for all users because it's easier and it's not like the restrictions you need to put in place affect data quality too much

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