Why not just organize some regular BarCamps?
Y Not - YC rejects of the world, unite!
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#42How about gathering in one of the countries that recently joined the EU: Bulgaria, Romania... Living is cheap, labour is cheap, people are smart. Anyone interested? On the other hand conditions there not that professional and engineers don't have adequate experience. Hmm...
I'm living in Romania. It would be a great place to join up with other entrepreneurs. My biggest problem is finding entrepreneurally-minded people (co-founders).
Finding experienced programmers to hire is not a problem, there are plenty. There's an entire outsourcing industry working for US and Western Europe clients.
Finding "professional conditions" (office space? net? or what?) is not a problem either.
Living costs are still cheap, but rising, and so are wages.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Spain? Never been there though :)
Spain is hugely bureaucratic and their social security system is insane for startup founders.
> "Spain is hugely bureaucratic and their social security system is insane for startup founders."
Do you have experience with this?
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the internet, nobody can see you fail. Peer pressure, weekly dinners, demo day - you can't really replicate that on the web. As for organising in Europe, where? London is very expensive, and nothing else springs to mind.
I understand that Copenhagen and Amsterdam are thriving tech centers. They are also full of English speakers and beautiful women.
A "thriving tech center" is overstating it a bit for Amsterdam, but we certainly have our share of small web start-ups, and there are plenty of programmers available. The atmosphere is great, the climate is no distraction, (but the nightlife is).
Language is not a barrier, but I don't think you should incorporate here - we have high capital requirements. NTIAALOA (not that I am a lawyer or anything).
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#45How about gathering in one of the countries that recently joined the EU: Bulgaria, Romania... Living is cheap, labour is cheap, people are smart. Anyone interested? On the other hand conditions there not that professional and engineers don't have adequate experience. Hmm...
I think this is a great idea! in SV, I bet you easily could find more speakers and mentors than you need, and they could generate a buzz to get the VC community out for a demo day.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the internet, nobody can see you fail. Peer pressure, weekly dinners, demo day - you can't really replicate that on the web. As for organising in Europe, where? London is very expensive, and nothing else springs to mind.
I understand that Copenhagen and Amsterdam are thriving tech centers. They are also full of English speakers and beautiful women.
I doubt those beautiful women would enhance your prospects.
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#47How about gathering in one of the countries that recently joined the EU: Bulgaria, Romania... Living is cheap, labour is cheap, people are smart. Anyone interested? On the other hand conditions there not that professional and engineers don't have adequate experience. Hmm...
I'm living in Romania. It would be a great place to join up with other entrepreneurs. My biggest problem is finding entrepreneurally-minded people (co-founders). Finding experienced programmers to hire is not a problem, there are plenty. There's an entire outsourcing industry working for US and Western Europe clients. Finding "professional conditions" (office space? net? or what?) is not a problem either. Living cost…
I'd be interested to learn more about Romania. Danny76, please contact me if you wish to discuss this further: kmt at ftml dot net.
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#48I'm interested in the idea for weekly dinner and demo day - just wondering how would you get all the VCs to attend?
Get a techcrunch posting and also start rumors that your demo day has change the world startups with amazing profit potencial. Get 20/30 people just to go around places and just mention it in a offhand way.
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#49If anyone who wasn't accepted wants to move to Cambridge, my roommate and I may have a deal for you. We'll provide you(or ya'll--up to 2) with free room & board in return for doing some development for our company(an angel funded web 2.0 startup). Then you can spend your time working on your company in the center of innovation in Cambridge. I'm not saying this will definitely happen, but if you're nice enough and seem like you just need a boost like this to get going I just may. Email me breck at breckyunits.com if interested.
BTW- Our company started the YC application but our customers are closer to Cambridge so we never finished the app. Judging by the acceptance rate we most likely would have gotten rejected anyway but it still was too bad we couldn't apply. I've been living in North Carolina for 5 years, is there something about the winter in Boston I should know ;)
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#50I am interested, though I need someone to invite me to US to let me apply for visa. P.S. That is basically what I was talking about yesterday ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=70071 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=70107 ) P.P.S. I am interested to move, to communicate frequently and to share apartments to reduce costs.
The silicon valley probably ain't a bad place to be but: - there is this thing called the Interweb that helps communicate efficiently from all over the world (I find amusing the idea that you have to be in a certain place in one country to work on Internet stuff; doesn't sound like "eating your own dogfood" if you ask me); - instead of all european entrepreneurs moving to the US, why not organize in Europe? Most peop…
Why don't we organize it in South America?, it's cheaper than US or Europe.