I'm tired of hearing 'X is the Silicon Y'. The truth is that few places in the world have the tolerance to failure that SV has. In many so called 'Silicon Y' a

I'm tired of hearing 'X is the Silicon Y'. The truth is that few places in the world have the tolerance to failure that SV has. In many so called 'Silicon Y' a failed startup would mean the end of your career. And that is why it has been so hard to reproduce that success in some places in Europe.