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ghostdiver on Sept 9, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Is Target of European Backlash on U.S. Tech...

That's not the case. Entrepreneurial culture is there in Europe even though there are many bureaucratical barriers.

US startups have at least one very important handicap: over 300mln people speaking the same language. On

For Europeans it's a very strong growth barrier, we can easily grow within one country, but then we hit the wall.

jedmeyers on Sept 9, 2014 [–]

I would not call a 300 million people speaking the same language a "handicap" for the US startups. It's more of the opposite.

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