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Europe's hottest startup capitals

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Re: Europe's hottest startup capitals

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Post by dazzawazza »

philwelch wrote: post #25
SoupIce wrote: post #23

Israel is not in Europe. Why is it on the list?

It's culturally closer to Europe than to its Muslim neighbors. Israel competes in the Eurovision song contest and in the European soccer confederation.

If you are going to use that standard then the UK is in North America as it's culturally closer to US/Canada than France/Germany.

Re: Europe's hottest startup capitals

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Post by smiler »

atomicdog wrote: post #19

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

Israel is thought of European because its football team is aligned with UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) and also it participates in the Eurovision song contest, so a lot of Europeans, myself included, definitely see Israel as quasi-European

Re: Europe's hottest startup capitals

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Post by smiler »

toumhi wrote: post #15

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).

The reason for the unequal depth is that the article was originally written for the print magazine - if you see the design of the magazine, you will see that they have a few featured cities with longer articles and others in brief. Obviously limited on page count.

Re: Europe's hottest startup capitals

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Post by jkaljundi »

ddon wrote: post #17
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/

Same as any city. New York for example is so much dirtier and uglier than Tallinn, would never imagine living there.

As for snow, 7-8 months is exaggerating, if not pure lying :) It's true, that the weather is not African, then again it is really varied and one of the few places where we do have 4 really distinct seasons.

Re: Europe's hottest startup capitals

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Post by jkaljundi »

topbanana wrote: post #4

London?

Did you read the article? It starts with "London's startup scene is booming -- you need only read Wired to see that. But what are Europe's other hot digital cities -- and which are the companies and founders to watch?" - so it's about what else besides London there is. Not downplaying London at all.

Re: Europe's hottest startup capitals

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Post by iwwr »

presty wrote: post #36
leon_ wrote: post #9

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

Well, Barcelona is not the capital of Spain..

It's the capital of Catalonia, who many people in Spain would not mind to see as an independent republic :)

Re: Europe's hottest startup capitals

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Post by arethuza »

dazzawazza wrote: post #31
philwelch wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's culturally closer to Europe than to its Muslim neighbors. Israel competes in the Eurovision song contest and in the European soccer confederation.

If you are going to use that standard then the UK is in North America as it's culturally closer to US/Canada than France/Germany.

That is a matter of opinion!
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