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Sadly, as a French entrepreneur, I would love to contradict you. But basically, you're right. It is much more difficult to create a startup in France rather tha
by hbbio 13y ago
Sadly, as a French entrepreneur, I would love to contradict you.
But basically, you're right. It is much more difficult to create a startup in France rather than in the US for instance.
Read PG's http://www.paulgraham.com/america.html http://www.paulgraham.com/america.html in perspective and it still stands 7 years later, especially when considering US vs. France.
- kaffeinecoma 13y agoThanks for linking to this, I hadn't seen it before. Excerpt: Ironically, of all rich countries the US has lost the most civil liberties recently. But I'm not too worried yet. I'm hoping once the present administration is out, the natural openness of American culture will reassert itself. I would love to see pg revisit this topic, as this was written in 2006.
- pietro 13y agoWhy do you even try? It doesn't make any sense to me. Moving to the UK or Scandinavia would be trivially easy, and you'd instantly find yourself in a super business friendly environment compared to France. Is it the food?
- theorique 13y agoIf you're in London, Paris is but a Eurostar away...
- hbbio 13y agoGenerally, yes. The quality of life in France is very high. If you are employed by a big company or the state, you can have a perfect life. But from the day you create a company, you discover problems one by one. My first startup was French and I still love living in Paris. But I'm pretty sure, unless things change, that I'll move out as most of my friends did.