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London and Paris will never become competitive startup hubs for the most simplest and most important reason, the climate! Everybody loves sun and beaches!
by eusman 19y ago
London and Paris will never become competitive startup hubs for the most simplest and most important reason, the climate!
Everybody loves sun and beaches!
- adnam 19y agoSo perhaps Barcelona has a chance.
- menloparkbum 19y agoEr... what beach do people in Palo Alto go to? Santa Cruz? Pacifica? The beaches in the Bay Area are FREEZING COLD. The beaches near Boston, whilst disgusting, are actually much warmer and beach-like in the summer than the beaches in NorCal ever are.
- pg 19y agoOk, so he's technically wrong about the beaches, but he's right about the climate. The fabulous climate (and landscape) is a big draw for the Bay Area. I feel excited every time I fly into SFO.
- dfranke 19y ago> The beaches in the Bay Area are FREEZING COLD. Eh, they're quite cold but not unbearable. Trust me, I know -- I've swum from Alcatraz to SF :-)
- blored 19y agoNice!
- menloparkbum 19y agoso have I - it was freezing cold. :P
- ag 19y agoI'm in Portugal, we have very good climate and beaches but i don't think Lisbon or any other Portuguese city will ever be a hub. It's not just the climate.
- hello_moto 19y agoThe more people go out, the less they use your web two point oh app.
- run4yourlives 19y agoI would never move to Cali b/c I enjoy all 4 seasons. a sunny christmas would bother me, to be honest.
- krazer34 19y agotoo many people focus on silicon valley - as the next group of startups come from anywhere, so will the incubators.
- eusman 19y agoobviously it's not the climate the most important reason. Europe has a very prominent problem to solve before even having the chance to develop such a hub. But in the future there be a place that will concentrate and host those people ready to build this ecosystem. It's more a culture problem Europe is facing. There may be ventures geographically descentralized that succeed but they wont be concentrated anytime soon, because there arent enough attempts and often the very comptetent people move to US. The huge irony is Loic Le Meur, the French guy who is hosting LeWeb3, who is supposed to be working towards that purpose. Interestingly enough, his new startup is now in San Fransisco.. p.s. even if the beach is cold, I guess the sun is there and the lifestyle and life is non-stop, and must have been a catalyst in the beggining when Silicon Vally began to attract people. Anyhow, of what I now real estate was pretty cheap even 25 years ago, which must have been a very important role. Paris is already big and expensive and cloudy. London the same. Cities in Germany the same. The people and the prices are not startup friendly.