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Europe Is Searching For Its Silicon Valley

• delano 19y ago
  It's just a little further east in Tel-Aviv.
  • delano 19y ago
    I'm not sure why that got down-voted. It's a true statement.
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    • jeroen 19y ago
      Tel Aviv may have a concentration of startups, but it's as unrelated to Europe as Silicon Valley is.
      • delano 19y ago
        That's not true. Tel-Aviv has a lot in common with European cities. But maybe you meant there can only be one Silicon Valley?
        • ardit33 19y ago
          I think the only common thing, is that somehow Isreal in soccer and olympics competes with european teams. Mainly the reason is that all the countries around Isreal hates its guts. That still doesn't make you any european. Flagrant racism and human rights in isreal are just appalling, and very anti-european. I don't see people want to move to iseral (unless they are jewish), for a startup.
  • rguzman 19y ago
    Unless Israel became a member of the EU the Tel-Aviv startup hub probably does not have too great a benefit for Europe. For a startup hub to affect a country (maybe throw in some quotes for Europe), it seems to me that the following are necessary: - any citizen needs to have the ability to relocate to the hub easily ie no immigration paperwork - the country needs to be able to tax the income generated by the hub - most importantly, the hub needs to be located within its borders so that the region can reap the side-benefits of the hub. This is the same kind of reason statesmen like things like particle accelerators built within their districts any others?