State intervention on innovation is considered harmful.
What about gun control? Does that stop innovation too?
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Why Is Europe Failing to Create More $1B Startups?
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#12A more interesting question is: 'Are unicorns good for the economy and good for society'?
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#13Why everybody is so obsessed about unicorns? You can get your own in a few minutes: http://unicornify.me/
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#14German law makes the "out of the garage + Angel investor" start-up culture impossible. The only possible way is to make money AND start out with a huge amount of cash. I can't speak for other Euro countries.
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#15German law makes the "out of the garage + Angel investor" start-up culture impossible. The only possible way is to make money AND start out with a huge amount of cash. I can't speak for other Euro countries.
How so?
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#16He mentions the multiple languages. I don't understand why Europeans stick to their local languages when they all know English anyway. Are they trying to keep foreigners out? Surely they realize there's a huge social cost of having your own minority language. This problem exists in China too but most people recognize the need to learn the standard Mandarin so they're largely bilingual. Dialect at home and Mandarin talking to everyone else even if it comes with a funny accent.
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#17State intervention on innovation is considered harmful.
What about gun control? Does that stop innovation too?
Sure. More gun control -> more police expenses -> more taxes -> less innovation.
Try opening a company in, say, France. (This was a cruel joke. Please don't, for the sake of your sanity).
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#18State intervention on innovation is considered harmful.
What about gun control? Does that stop innovation too?
I mean, one could claim it hampers gun innovation. Not sure the laws about that though- I wonder if they have laws that allow the creation of guns that would normally be illegal..
Not sure what afsina's point is though.
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#19He mentions the multiple languages. I don't understand why Europeans stick to their local languages when they all know English anyway. Are they trying to keep foreigners out? Surely they realize there's a huge social cost of having your own minority language. This problem exists in China too but most people recognize the need to learn the standard Mandarin so they're largely bilingual. Dialect at home and Mandarin ta…
No, not everybody in Europe speaks English. Not in France, not in Germany, not in Spain, not in Italy.
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#20He mentions the multiple languages. I don't understand why Europeans stick to their local languages when they all know English anyway. Are they trying to keep foreigners out? Surely they realize there's a huge social cost of having your own minority language. This problem exists in China too but most people recognize the need to learn the standard Mandarin so they're largely bilingual. Dialect at home and Mandarin ta…
> they all know English anyway
Not all of us speak English.