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Re:As Facebook Sweeps Across Europe, Regulators Gird for Battle by lukasm on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @08:46AM (#9604394)
Silicon Valley won't happen in Europe for the same reason it didn't happen in New York and East Coast. It's cultural. Europe should not compete with Silicon Valley by copying what's there. Europe should work on stuff that doesn't work in US e.g. Music Industry - very hostile in US, all unicorns are in Europe (Spotify, SoundCloud)
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Re:As Facebook Sweeps Across Europe, Regulators Gird for Battle by adventured on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @10:13AM (#9604957)
You mean other than Pandora, which is a successful, $4 billion company that has seen a massive revenue boom:

2012: $274m

2013: $427m

2014: $920m

Pandora is obviously not a unicorn because it's public, but counting Spotify as a start-up would be equally absurd, they're nine years old.

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Re:As Facebook Sweeps Across Europe, Regulators Gird for Battle by lukasm on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @10:17AM (#9604983)
Good exception that proves the rule. Startup industry is order or magnitude bigger in US, normalize and then compare.
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