> - people who have the skills to create startups in France tend to do it outside of France because they will have access to better capital/labor markets There

> - people who have the skills to create startups in France tend to do it outside of France because they will have access to better capital/labor markets There are a lot of French people here in the bay area. From what they told me, it's actually easier to come to the bay area, navigate through the US immigration system and get funded than get funded at home. Not only that, some startups got funding from VC funds with LPs... from France!