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Re:Is The Norwegian Startup Scene Hot Or Not? by ThomPete on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @08:25AM (#3943256)
the real cultural issue is that Scandinavia doesn't have the same risk-taking culture of the US

Exactly. Courage is the biggest problem here.

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Re:Is The Norwegian Startup Scene Hot Or Not? by aslakhellesoy on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @09:17AM (#3943434)
Case in point:

The term "venture capital" doesn't exist in the Norwegian language. The closest translation is "risikokapital" which literally means risk capital.

This says a lot about our culture.

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Re:Is The Norwegian Startup Scene Hot Or Not? by psykotic on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @11:13AM (#3943983)
> This says a lot about our culture.

That's a big leap. In Danish we just say "venture kapital". There are thousands upon thousands of direct loanwords like this. I wouldn't read anything deeper into it.

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