Re:Ask HN: Any hackers from the UK (or Europe)?
by davidw on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @04:45PM
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Europe is great, but I wouldn't recommend it for startups. It's fine for tech (especially open source), but the marriage of tech and business that exists in the US in certain spots (like SV) just hasn't gelled here yet.
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Re:Ask HN: Any hackers from the UK (or Europe)?
by revorad on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @07:00PM
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Hi David, can you please say more about why you don't recommend Europe? How's your own company's experience been?
No doubt Silicon valley is ahead as far as startup hubs go, but I don't think we are helping the business community in Europe by just accepting that as an unchangeable situation.
Re:Ask HN: Any hackers from the UK (or Europe)?
by davidw on Thursday November 19, 2009 @02:05AM
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Well, first of all, there's the standard "Europe is not one country" disclaimer, let's get that out of the way. The UK and Ireland are probably better than continental Europe in terms of startup costs.
My point is basically that, all other things being equal, for an American (such as the guy who posted this), you're going to have an easier time of it staying home, since 'home' is a pretty good place to do a startup.