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The article reads like sour grapes: It's always someone else's fault. It was your company. If you knew the press in the US was better, /why didn't you expand t
by yc-kraln 1y ago
The article reads like sour grapes: It's always someone else's fault.
It was your company. If you knew the press in the US was better, /why didn't you expand to the US/? /Why didn't you raise money in the US?/ Companies are ultimately transnational, the market for capital, talent, and eyeballs is global, and if you weren't getting what you wanted from the European press, why didn't you go after the American press?
There are some structural things which make things more difficult than if you're living in SF, LA, or NYC--I'd argue more strongly it's the lack of pension funds investing as LPs in funds which results in less overall money in the ecosystem--but there's a LOT of the US which is not those places, and I would strongly argue that it's easier to be a startup in Berlin or Paris than in Chicago or Dallas.