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More importantly, with more and more talent present in Canada, more and more startup funding will move there.
by NTDF9 8y ago
More importantly, with more and more talent present in Canada, more and more startup funding will move there.
- bdamm 8y agoI'm not sure that's true. Availability of VC capital is a tricky thing. There's some in Canada but only seems to be in small pockets. The startup scene in Vancouver is so small that basically everyone knows everyone else, for example. Vancouver is also suffering a real estate crisis that is worse than Silicon Valley's. I think it really takes large institutional draws to make a serious dent in the size of a talent pool that would ultimately draw larger VCs.
- NTDF9 8y ago> I'm not sure that's true. Availability of VC capital is a tricky thing. There's some in Canada but only seems to be in small pockets. But that is the reality TODAY based on the talent pool accumulated YESTERDAY. For other countries, that YESTERDAY is TODAY. They want a SV future and if they had to import some people to recreate SV, this pool of people is it.