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No, they should not. What makes places like California vibrant is the entrepreneurial spirit, and that means risking capital on new ventures that could or not
by forgottenpaswrd 13y ago
No, they should not.
What makes places like California vibrant is the entrepreneurial spirit, and that means risking capital on new ventures that could or not work.
In Europe(or Asia) is more like, If I put money you guarantee me that I am getting my money back, if not I will own you for the rest of your live.
You have to prove that you have experience being successful in order to success, but if you were you would not need them in the first place.
So nothing risky or new is made on Europe, if it is,it is bought by American companies like Skype. No risk, so no google, no Amazon, no facebook, no Microsoft, even having probably more educated people.
Kickstarter guaranteeing projects would mean no risk projects, and huge bureaucracy cost.
Today it is my work as a backer to evaluate projects, this is my responsibility, I don't want my big brother to do it for me.
- drrotmos 13y agoSkype may be American now, but it's origins are clearly European. "Skype was founded in 2003 by Janus Friis from Denmark and Niklas Zennström from Sweden. The Skype software was developed by the Estonians Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn, together with Friis and Zennström were also behind the peer-to-peer file sharing software Kazaa. In August 2003, the first public beta version was released." Until it was acquired by eBay, it was a Luxembourgish company. I don't know how a company could be more European in origin.
- kristiandupont 13y agoI think he meant "European companies like Skype are bought by American companies".