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Best countries for startups

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Re: Best countries for startups

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Post by brk »

This is interesting, but I think it is missing some key points for technology startups (it seems to be more "new business" focused):

1) Availability of talent 2) Labor laws overall 3) Availability of ready market and spending power

I may be biased, but IMO the US is the #1 place in the world for technology startups when you factor all these things in.

Re: Best countries for startups

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Post by noodle »

brk wrote: post #2

This is interesting, but I think it is missing some key points for technology startups (it seems to be more "new business" focused): 1) Availability of talent 2) Labor laws overall 3) Availability of ready market and spending power I may be biased, but IMO the US is the #1 place in the world for technology startups when you factor all these things in.

i think you are biased, if you read a sufficient number of them you'll see that they do consider things like the available workforce and labor laws. the market thing is kind of dependent upon what type of startup you want to create, but if you're working on a web startup, it doesn't really matter where the company itself is located.

the article is referring to startups in general, not necessarily tech startups.

Re: Best countries for startups

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Post by davidw »

noodle wrote: post #3
brk wrote: post #2

This is interesting, but I think it is missing some key points for technology startups (it seems to be more "new business" focused): 1) Availability of talent 2) Labor laws overall 3) Availability of ready market and spending power I may be biased, but IMO the US is the #1 place in the world for technology startups when you factor all these things in.

i think you are biased, if you read a sufficient number of them you'll see that they do consider things like the available workforce and labor laws. the market thing is kind of dependent upon what type of startup you want to create, but if you're working on a web startup, it doesn't really matter where the company itself is located. the article is referring to startups in general, not necessarily tech startups.

What other kinds of startups are there? Biotech... Still "tech" though. What else? "Clean tech". Almost all of them are some kind of "tech", even though those might be quite far from the sorts of web things we talk about here for the most part. I guess you could talk about computer-based tech and "other". Or "new businesses" (like, a new restaurant), and that's certainly worthwhile, but not really "startups".

Still, it's not a bad list. I wonder how much money you have to have to start a Danish company though. Places like Italy and Austria are nowhere near the cheap fees that exist in the US.

Edit: Georgia?!? Might be ok in terms of regulations, but has a significant "being blown up by the Russians" risk factor.

Re: Best countries for startups

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Post by noodle »

davidw wrote: post #4
noodle wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i think you are biased, if you read a sufficient number of them you'll see that they do consider things like the available workforce and labor laws. the market thing is kind of dependent upon what type of startup you want to create, but if you're working on a web startup, it doesn't really matter where the company itself is located. the article is referring to startups in general, not necessarily tech startups.

What other kinds of startups are there? Biotech... Still "tech" though. What else? "Clean tech". Almost all of them are some kind of "tech", even though those might be quite far from the sorts of web things we talk about here for the most part. I guess you could talk about computer-based tech and "other". Or "new businesses" (like, a new restaurant), and that's certainly worthwhile, but not really "startups". Still,…

all of the business definitions for "startup" i see don't restrict the definition to any specific field. just because we talk about tech startups here to the point where it is implied doesn't mean that CNN money also implies "tech startup" when they say "startup".

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=define...

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