I lived in northern France and have thought about the differences between here (the US) and Europe a lot. I think it's as much just kind of "bad luck" that the

I lived in northern France and have thought about the differences between here (the US) and Europe a lot. I think it's as much just kind of "bad luck" that the startup scene isn't there. The US really sucks a lot of lifeblood out of many other nations, partially because it was "first" with many of the entrepreneurial spirited ways of doing things here. Would the Netherlands (one of my favorite places in the world) have a booming startup culture with changes in laws and cultural norms? No, I don't think so. Anyone who wants to be involved with that stuff moves themselves over anyway. It's odd because the Europeans were the first real entrepreneurs with colonialism, but it seems like that part of European culture (or maybe those particular minded Europeans) were exported and sent off as well. I'm personally very interested in colonial era history and subsequent history of the Americas since that was the beginning of modern North/South America, and would love to run across a writeup someday attempting to breakdown the differences between new/old world thinking. Because even the Latin nations like Mexico are significantly different in how entrepreneurship is admired than from say, Spain or Italy.