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Whenever I read Paul Graham's articles about the startup culture in Silicon Valley, I thought: Here in Berlin, things are quite similar. We have lots of well-fu
by vog 15y ago
Whenever I read Paul Graham's articles about the startup culture in Silicon Valley, I thought: Here in Berlin, things are quite similar. We have lots of well-functioning coworking spaces, hacker spaces, and a huge number of User Groups.
However, I never came to the conclusion that this would make Berlin a "start-up mecca". I simply couldn't know, as I've never lived in Silicon Valley and thus don't have any base for comparison.
Maybe I've underestimated Berlin.
- tluyben2 15y agoYou did.
- chalst 15y agoIt's clearly not going to be like Silicon Valley: little in the way of VC finance, the biggest companies headquartered around here are Mittelstand, &c. But it is a fantastically attractive location for programmers, and capable of meeting some kind of critical mass. Maybe it could be a start-up location more focussed on growing into a company like Ferruccio Lamborghini than General Motors.