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Europe is ~800million people with very different cultures. You can find geniuses here. You can find entrepreneurs. You can also find people that are sloppy. You
by amix 13y ago
Europe is ~800million people with very different cultures. You can find geniuses here. You can find entrepreneurs. You can also find people that are sloppy. You can find people that have built billion dollar tech companies. Stop generalizing.
- raverbashing 13y agoSo please give whatever specificities you want, because your answer was more generic than mine. But maybe my experience living, working and studying in 3 different countries in the EU is worth nothing.
- Dewie 13y ago> But maybe my experience living, working and studying in 3 different countries in the EU is worth nothing. I'm not really impressed, given how wide strokes you painted. I just think it's more constructive to at least state the countries you're talking about rather than just the continent that they share.
- raverbashing 13y ago"I just think it's more constructive to at least state the countries you're talking about rather than just the continent that they share." If we're talking about startups, there's a limited set of places this can be about. I can assure you it's not the countryside of Spain. I mentioned the common aspects I've noticed, because the discussion is about Europe and not a specific city or a comparison between them. But I'm basing this on experiences in Ireland, France and Germany. Sure, they are not all exactly the same, but they end up having a lot in common.
- moocowduckquack 13y agoAustria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland Greece Hungary Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden United Kingdom
- jkaljundi 13y agoAnd Europe (not just the small EU subset) has 50+ countries.
- moocowduckquack 13y agoSorry, I was being lazy, presumably because I am from europe.
- coldtea 13y ago>Europe is ~800million people with very different cultures. You can find geniuses here. You can find entrepreneurs. You can also find people that are sloppy. You can find people that have built billion dollar tech companies. But you can't find a Silicon Valley or a similar economic and/or cultural spot. He's trying to explain why. >Stop generalizing Generalizing is the (literal and historical) start of science -- putting things in general categories and taxonomies is essential in understanding them. There are categories of things -- and different places have different characteristics in aggregate, not just because "there are various kinds of people in general".
- bluekeybox 13y agoNobody is saying that generalizing is wrong in the general sense. It's just that sometimes advantages can be had to being particular. For example, I have a feeling that the culture in Estonia (including one's attitudes towards entrepreneurship) is quite different from the culture in France.
- Ygg2 13y agoI think what the post is trying to say, if you look at Earth, you'd say, look at those bunch of whiners, on average they don't do squat. I mean most of them are just plagiarizing and barely make ends meet. Or just starving to death... Taken into average VC spirit is pretty dead in most places on Earth. Can VC in Africa, India and China be compared to USA? USA shares common history, language, state system. Europe is waaay more diverse. Treating it like a singular entity is much like treating all human states on Earth as a single entity.
- Dewie 13y agoI for one think it's amazing that I see so many globetrotters (well, continent-trotters) that have experienced and gotten to know so many different European cultures. At least that's the kind of credentials that I assume when they talk about Europe as one homogeneous group of people...