Europe's hottest startup capitals • Hacker News Board

Poorly researched filler piece. For example, the article on Barcelona failed to mention ANY of the truly interesting startups, like Privalia, ExperienceOn, Letsbonus, Groupalia, and all the companies seeded by Grupo Intercom.

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Post by arethuza » Thu, Aug 18, 2011, 8:50 AM UTC

leon_ wrote: post #9

> Europe's hottest startup capitals: Sweden Come and visit the wonderful town of Sweden ...

That town has some really impressive parks!

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Post by toumhi » Thu, Aug 18, 2011, 8:51 AM UTC

These articles are of very unequal depth. 2 pages for Paris, and only a list of startups for Amsterdam. Not even a mention of recentlylaunched new york times-featured appsterdam: http://www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2011/06/27/27ven...

Nice to read about less popular cities though (Tallinn, Helsinki).

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Post by shazamjad » Thu, Aug 18, 2011, 9:06 AM UTC

leon_ wrote: post #9

> Europe's hottest startup capitals: Sweden Come and visit the wonderful town of Sweden ...

An error in the title but the article itself actually discusses Stockholm.

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Post by ddon » Thu, Aug 18, 2011, 9:14 AM UTC

relix wrote: post #7

I was looking into moving to Tallinn as an expat. This just sealed the deal. Any Estonian hackers on here?

i moved from Tallinn last year :) many positive things can be said about this place, but having a snow (mostly dirty) for about 7..8 months a year, and seeing this mess made me move: http://public.fotki.com/dmitri_don/tallinn-2011/

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Post by harryf » Thu, Aug 18, 2011, 9:20 AM UTC

shazamjad wrote: post #12

alxtye wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably omitted on purpose for reasons unknown.

Likely because its a UK website - showing cities on mainland Europe.

...so it's "top 10 locations I'd rather be right now"?

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Post by atomicdog » Thu, Aug 18, 2011, 9:22 AM UTC

You're really pushing it if you're classing Moscow and Tel Aviv as "European" cities...

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Post by harryf » Thu, Aug 18, 2011, 9:24 AM UTC

Throwing in a Swiss boot - http://startupchart.ch/ - of course Switzerland is a country, not a capital. But then so is Sweden...