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I applied earlier, and I was trying to get my school to cover my costs there, but it turned out to be a dead end. Looks like I will have to turn my invitation down (if I ever do receive one, that is). Bummer.
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I imagine the factors that came into play: 1) It's an major English speaking city with a culture many of the YC partners are comfortable with. Running an event in a country with a foreign language and culture is hard . 2) It's well connected with flights from pretty much every major city in Europe and has direct flights from SF & NY. Not only for attendees but also for convincing speakers to attend. 3) It's by far th…
is it really true that Israel is the biggest tech hub in Europe? (if we consider that its part of europe ) ,I always though its Berlin
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There's a significant difference with being a visitor to a foreign country (where you can just wing it) and running a several hundred person event. Something getting lost in miscommunication can easily become a big deal. (in practice you'd hire a local events company to manage it, but still it's messier) I'm not sure I follow your reasoning for doing it in a non-startup hub though ? - certainly you could make an argu…
Frankfurt and even Hamburg are quite alive, Frankfurt is extremely central. It's an event for Europe , by doing it in London you are far away from most of Europe. Frankfurt is a huge hub when it comes to transportation, and there are facilities right at the airport. As for your 'miscommunication' suggestion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxUm-2x-2dM
Even from eastern Europe, flying to Frankfurt from Warsaw is almost twice as much as to London (although the trip to London is an extra 40 minutes).
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Frankfurt and even Hamburg are quite alive, Frankfurt is extremely central. It's an event for Europe , by doing it in London you are far away from most of Europe. Frankfurt is a huge hub when it comes to transportation, and there are facilities right at the airport. As for your 'miscommunication' suggestion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxUm-2x-2dM
Frankfurt is certainly a commercial/financial hub, but it's much more expensive to get to from say Paris or Barcelona because those routes aren't served by the budget airlines as it's not a tourist destination. But the Barcelona to London route is served by at least four budget airlines. Even from eastern Europe, flying to Frankfurt from Warsaw is almost twice as much as to London (although the trip to London is an e…
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Frankfurt and even Hamburg are quite alive, Frankfurt is extremely central. It's an event for Europe , by doing it in London you are far away from most of Europe. Frankfurt is a huge hub when it comes to transportation, and there are facilities right at the airport. As for your 'miscommunication' suggestion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxUm-2x-2dM
Frankfurt is certainly a commercial/financial hub, but it's much more expensive to get to from say Paris or Barcelona because those routes aren't served by the budget airlines as it's not a tourist destination. But the Barcelona to London route is served by at least four budget airlines. Even from eastern Europe, flying to Frankfurt from Warsaw is almost twice as much as to London (although the trip to London is an e…
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Frankfurt is certainly a commercial/financial hub, but it's much more expensive to get to from say Paris or Barcelona because those routes aren't served by the budget airlines as it's not a tourist destination. But the Barcelona to London route is served by at least four budget airlines. Even from eastern Europe, flying to Frankfurt from Warsaw is almost twice as much as to London (although the trip to London is an e…
Ryanair flies to Frankfurt-Hahn which is 1.5 hour with bus outside of Frankfurt. Lots of budget airlines also fly to Cologne/Bonn which is 1 hour away with train.
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Ryanair flies to Frankfurt-Hahn which is 1.5 hour with bus outside of Frankfurt. Lots of budget airlines also fly to Cologne/Bonn which is 1 hour away with train.
Ryanair don't fly to Frankfurt from Paris or Barcelona, they only serve a handful of major city routes (primarily London and Rome). And at the point where you flying into a different city it's no longer an "easy-to-get-to" location.
http://www.bravofly.com/offers/flights/frankfurt-barcelona/r...
As for 'flying into a different city', almost all of Londons airports except for Heathrow are more than an hour away and most of the cut-rate lines fly into the aiports furthest away.
I know you're trying to find all kinds of reasons to justify the choice made but all this nonsense is a bit strange. First you contend that you could not get along in Europe with only English, this contradicts my experience from travelling through Europe for many years (yes, I do speak multiple languages but in every country I've been to as soon as it's business English is the norm, even in France when dealing with foreigners). Now you make it seem as if a major hub for air traffic in continental Europe is somehow at a disadvantage to London.
I don't get it. Can't we just agree that there are viable alternatives that would have been a lot easier to reach for a lot of possible attendants?
Why London? Wouldn't it make more sense to have it organized in a mainland city such as Berlin or Paris where many more Europeans can easily get to?