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Actually, if we count unicorn companies per capita, the number two after silicon valley is stockholm. http://www.forbes.com/sites/knowledgewharton/2015/11/11/h

• ximeng 10y ago
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/11689464/How-Sweden-became-the-startup-capital-of-Europe.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnol... Alternative source without interstitial. Also comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10693764 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10693764 And actual companies here: http://stockholmitregion.com/2015/08/31/stockholm-unicorn-factory/ http://stockholmitregion.com/2015/08/31/stockholm-unicorn-fa...
• uola 10y ago
  Stockholm has produced a few successful startups, but it's not a competitor to SV. It's is a global competitor in telecom systems and games (though I guess many game companies are now owned by US companies). Spotify is basically the same service as when it started, just with more users. Stockholm has no real momentum in building something of their own.
  • dschiptsov 10y ago
    There is a huge difference between the valley - home of the whole industry and Stockholm, which hosts a few niched companies. Compare the hiring. In Sweden there is no demand for CS skills, there is no immigration programs for techies, etc. Also, which is also important, Sweden is traditionally a consumer of technology, not producer (with exception of Ericsson, of course) - MS land where Linux is frowned upon outside academia and almost nonexistent in the market. There is not even a dim analogy to what is going on in the valley.