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UK tech start-ups 'suck', Silicon investor says
- joeguilmette 19y agowhats wrong with parkatmyhouse.com?
- pg 19y agoHere's the actual conversation, as close to verbatim as I can remember: Q: What can we do to make Britain better for startups? A: Well, when you're doing badly at something, the first step is to admit it-- to say, Ok, we suck, now what do we have to do to get better? I certainly never said British startups suck. If I'd been getting specific, I might have said British investors did, but I didn't even say that. This whole article reads like what I said run through a blender.
- nivi 19y agoBy the way, Mazen Araabi has some good data on startups outside the U.S.: "Only one of these companies [consumer Internet startups founded since 2001 that have gone on to be acquired for over $100 million], YouTube, was founded in Silicon Valley. London is home to both Skype (which was also partially founded in Talin) and Last.fm, MySpace was founded in LA, ClubPenguin in Canada, and PhotoBucket in Denver." http://www.mazenblog.com/2007/11/consumer-web-is-global.html http://www.mazenblog.com/2007/11/consumer-web-is-global.html
- icky 19y ago> This whole article reads like what I said run through a blender. "UK Business Journalism 'Sucks', says prominent Silicon-based life-form"...
- kul 19y agoit gets worse: http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-y-combinators-graham-tells-uk-tech-scene-admit-it-you-suck/ http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-y-combinators-graham-... Now apparently UK entrepreneurs suck.
- pc 19y agoWho shortens Silicon Valley to "Silicon" instead of "Valley"?
- dcurtis 19y agoWhy are there question marks randomly placed throughout this article?
- jsrfded 19y agoBecause the server is returning charset=ISO-8859-1 but the body contains microsoft charset chars. The question marks should be hyphens.