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Quick question for PG. Would you be interested in running a similar event in London? We've been organising an HN meetup for over a year and currently have a com
by dmitri1981 15y ago
Quick question for PG. Would you be interested in running a similar event in London? We've been organising an HN meetup for over a year and currently have a community of over 1100 people that would love to attend an event like this. There are also several YC companies including Songkick that have been involved in the meetup that I am certain would be interested in helping out.
- dhruvboruah 15y agoYes, we have a thriving start up community in here, everyone is excited about YC spirit !!! We need u guys to be here in London !!
- lucagrulla 15y ago+1 for London !
- tomcavill 15y agoAnother +1 for London
- pg 15y agoPossibly. If we had an event in Europe, it would probably be in London.
- alain94040 15y agoWhat about Paris? I'm hearing from neutral sources (not me, I'm biased) that Paris is ahead of London in terms of startups. I actually was surprised to hear that. I understand that the language barrier can be stressful for Americans. London is therefore the default choice.
- SoftwarePatent 15y agoWhat is the Paris startup scene like? Can a native English speaker with a little French get a job there? (Especially one with an EU passport ;)
- ig1 15y agoThey're mistaken. Roughly 40% of European VC money is invested in London, nowhere else comes even close. If you just want to do a headcount you can search Crunchbase by city.
- husky 15y agoLondon please!
- amirmc 15y agoI think this would be great. What would you need to turn a 'possibly' into a 'yes'?
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- Creyels 15y agoI think we really could need some of the YC spirit over here. Even as a german, I would agree London to be the best choice. I would be really glad, because in europe (esp. in germany) at startup events we usually see some successful copycat entrepreneur as a speaker.. It seems like nearly no one in europe is taking risk in business to develop real innovation.
- joshuamarch 15y agoWe would love to have you over here:)
- weebro 15y agoIf you could find the time to appear at that event, it may be more productive it coincide with the Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford event held in November, or FOWA London on 3-5th Oct, both of which you have presented at in the past.
- bernieklein 15y agoAnother vote for London!
- sim0n 15y agoI know that I (and most, if not all of my startup friends back in the UK) would have definitely attended a YC event in London.
- csantini 15y ago+1 London
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- scottallison 15y ago+1
- yeikow 15y ago+1!
- j2labs 15y agoInteresting. Folks in NYC seem to think Berlin is a better environment for startups and rarely discuss London.
- sthartle 15y ago+1 for London
- rebecca_garnett 15y agoAnother vote for London from us @skilio !
- iuguy 15y agoAs one of the founders of http://www.44con.com/ http://www.44con.com/ I'd be happy to chat about making this happen. We have everything we need geared up for this and could do it as a free or paid for conference.
- oomoo 15y agoyes, London, please!
- mattslight 15y agoI can't understand why YC isn't involved more with London
- abdels 15y ago+1 for london! Do it :)
- alezante 15y agoYes, please! I can def fly from Italy if it's planned
- magitam 15y ago+1 for having an event in London
- klauslabs 15y agoanother vote for London! there are a lot of people in the world with the desire and energy to build great things that cannot get visas and up and move to San Francisco, in my opinion London is the second best place to be to create a startup.
- chriscalitz 15y ago+1 for London
- jackgavigan 15y agoI think it would be great to have a YC-style event in London, although I'd suggest that, instead of waiting for YC to do it for us, why don't we do it ourselves? I'd be willing put some money up to make a London equivalent happen. If anyone's interested in discussing further, drop me a line on jack at gavigan dot co dot uk
- mogston 15y ago+1 for London. Drop me a message if you need help organising.
- jeremybonney 15y agoSame, I'd be happy to help with any organisation stuff I can do.
- ljf 15y agoAnd another - would be great to see this come off in London.
- aterreno 15y agoyes
- jaggs 15y agoAnother vote for London
- ChrisBeach 15y ago+1 for London please. Dmitri's Hacker News Meetup is popular and the startup scene is buzzing here.
- Harj 15y agoI'd certainly like to do an event in London. Would be hard to arrange for everyone from YC to make it over though.
- gnocchi 15y agoDefinitely a good idea
- julianlcarter 15y agoYes I would back this
- romain_eude 15y ago+1 for London
- mstafford 15y agoTotally +1 for London - we need a kick up the ass with regard to accelerators @mstafford
- gehan_g 15y ago+1
- atjames 15y ago+1 London
- crashpadder 15y ago+1 Be great.
- jonthompson 15y ago+1 for London, would be great to have one over here
- fbnt 15y agoYes, you could easily name it YC Europe. I'd definitely fly in for a YC event.
- brackin 15y agoI'd love for this to happen, i'm really interested in going through YC and this would be amazing. Also Re: Paris. From what i've heard it's harder to start in France due to how investment law works there. Although i've seen interesting startups across Europe, my bias opinion is that YC should come to London.
- avipatch 15y ago+1 definitely v. useful ahead of fall program applications
- ben_hall 15y ago+1 :)
- patrick_t 15y ago+1
- jm2dev 15y ago+1 London
- alex347 15y ago+1 for London