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Ask HN: Where in mainland Europe would you choose to bootstrap a startup?
- kindlez 12y agoI hear good things about Berlin.
- SebSigloch 12y agoBerlin has an amazing startup scene with fairly open people. I got easily in contact with CEOs of Soundcloud and Blinkist. Try also to connect with hub:raum , which is the Telekom incubator in Berlin. Great stuff. Other than that, I would probably go for Paris or Zurich, dependent on your startup idea. In general: Try to find a place, where like-minded startups are situated. This swarming of common interests is indeed very valuable for skill, experience, and knowledge transfer.
- sgy 12y agoBerlin is great. Barcelona seems to be starting to get into the startup scene.
- archagon 12y agoI have no experience with this but the Netherlands is supposed to make this a lot easier with the DAFT if you're from the US.
- Jayd2014 12y agoI know it's not Europe, but how about Morocco: http://www.quora.com/Startups/What-are-the-coolest-startup-culture-hacks-youve-heard-of http://www.quora.com/Startups/What-are-the-coolest-startup-c...
- firebrand39 12y agoWhy not eastern Europe. Budapest comes to mind. They do have a well educated tech work force. The politics may be inconvenient but its the EU after all. Cost is low and it is a real adventure :-) If anybody has a convincing idea, I'll come along (fluent german and english). Hungarian will work after a while.
- csmdev 12y agoSibiu, Romania. Awesome mountain range. Great food. Low costs. Very friendly people. And two major hubs nearby with a growing startup culture (Cluj and Bucharest).