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Amsterdam has: - The largest internet exchange in the world, which means very cheap and high quality colo - Several large universities with CS departments in
by speleding 16y ago
Amsterdam has:
- The largest internet exchange in the world, which means very cheap and high quality colo
- Several large universities with CS departments in the vicinity should you need team members
- Excellent quality of life
- People speak several languages, including English
- A great startup scene
- Tax breaks on innovative (software) products
Downsides: not cheap and hard to get a working permit if you're from outside the EU. Don't go there if you get offended by a very liberal value system.
- tomh- 16y agoCan you elaborate on that great startup scene? I'm only aware of companies with relations to "thenextweb" and their founders, but don't hear a lot about other Amsterdam based startups that much. I'm not aware of any regular meetups or stuff like that.
- DeusExMachina 16y agoRegarding meetups I have been wanting to organize one for sometime, but I'm going on holiday for a couple of weeks, so I will think about it when I will come back.
- harscoat 16y agoLayar is from Amsterdam
- speleding 16y agoWith great startup scene, I mean there are bunch of cool startups within biking distance of each other (To name just a few http://www2.layar.com/ http://www2.layar.com/, http://www.phusion.nl/ http://www.phusion.nl/, http://www.ebuddy.com/ http://www.ebuddy.com/, http://www.supersaas.com/ http://www.supersaas.com/, http://www.guerrilla-games.com/ http://www.guerrilla-games.com/). So you're bound to run into fellow entrepreneurs. It also has a large number of headquarters of multinationals (Cisco, Philips, etc) so expat services are well developed. I'm not really into generally accessible meetups myself, but I'm sure I've seen a few announcements come by of various functions.
- eelco 16y agoThere's STIKK (http://www.stikk.nl http://www.stikk.nl), and a bunch of Ruby/Python/Haskell/JavaScript meetups. What's maybe lacking are a couple of big companies that buy/invest in smaller ones (e.g., like Nokia in Berlin).
- franck 16y agoLet's not forget the very talented folks at Sofa : http://www.madebysofa.com/ http://www.madebysofa.com/