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And you really don't think pharma qualifies as high-tech? Check e.g. for the OECD definition.
The context of the GP comments and the whole discussion, it's the "high-tech" in an IT sense of the term. Hence my remark. The high innovation ranking of Switzerland is most certainly not due to its computer/IT-related innovation. That's the point.
So you're just assuming.
Not at all. Yes Switzerland is probably the best country if you want to follow the rules, have a good quality of life and good education for your children. Not much for developers who are looking for interesting challenges. This is due to the mentality of the population and the risk aversion of the investors. From a Swiss person.
My personal theory is that determination whether a place can become a "Silicon Valley" is the population's attitude to drugs. If a developer can smoke a joint after a tough day or explore his or hers consciousness in other ways, without fear of going to jail and having their life ruined, then that attracts creative people. If you have creative people in one place, it all starts to come together.
Utah would be a counterpoint to this. More and more VC funding every year, yet doesn't have legal recreational marijuana.
FWIW: I am a 2nd-time entrepreneur. I bootstrapped a company in Germany from 2004-2011, and sold it to Google then. As part of that I moved to Switzerland. I started another company in early 2018 in Zurich, believing the hype about it being a good place to do business. I won't go into details publicly, but: If your market and your potential acquirers are primarily in the US, and you think your startup will have a lon…
fyi, there's no private messaging option on HN - people usually post contact details in their profile.
To me, Hanoi is the future of the startup world: - surprisingly libertarian pro-buisness environment - super low cost of living - supportive of expats working for american incorperated companies - easy visas - wonderful culture - great dating life - safe if you don’t go looking for trouble - instead of having to qualify for goverment benefits, the goverment controls prices for nessecities for everyone. - rapidly impr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_life_and_career_of_Barac...
Unlike 99% of Americans, the man had some perspective.
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From what I've gathered when I looked into moving to CH (I could be wrong, and for personal/pandemic reasons didn't pursue this avenue), it's very hard to build a long term life in Switzerland and virtually impossible to gain citizenship through anything but marriage or extraordinary circumstances, but YMMV. If you want to move to Switzerland from the U.S. the easiest thing is to just go there on a 90-day visa, and c…
You can't extend your stay allowance by shuttling across the border every 90 days. There is a 180 day/year cap, exactly to suppress this sort of shenanigans.
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The context of the GP comments and the whole discussion, it's the "high-tech" in an IT sense of the term. Hence my remark. The high innovation ranking of Switzerland is most certainly not due to its computer/IT-related innovation. That's the point.
> is most certainly So you're just assuming.
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> is most certainly So you're just assuming.
You are switching the subject.
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I don't know how egalitarian it is. Having visited Geneva and spoken with many people there about the crazy high cost of living - it seems that most low wage earners survive by living in nearby French towns and commuting in to work. That's an economy maintained by the indentured servitude of non-native people.
> it seems that most low wage earners survive by living in nearby French towns and commuting in to work My interviews with Swiss companies when discussing the employment form usually turn to "you can live in France and commute daily to Switzerland". Yeah, thanks no thanks.
In bad weather taking the bus, which was always on time and never delayed in traffic.