Comments on: The Economist lays it out: Europe’s entrepreneurial crisis goes back decades http://gigaom.com/2012/07/27/the-economist-lays-it-out-europes-entrepreneurial-crisis-goes-back-decades/ Tue, 21 May 2013 16:55:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Robin http://gigaom.com/2012/07/27/the-economist-lays-it-out-europes-entrepreneurial-crisis-goes-back-decades/#comment-871125 Mon, 30 Jul 2012 22:30:53 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=547422#comment-871125 Actually there’s one HUGE factor in Europe which restricts growth: that’s the number of languages. It’s very difficult to grow many businesses because of all the borders and language gaps. Anything an American company does potentially targets 250+ million people. If a company wants to grow in Europe it needs to create multi-language documents and web sites, legal aspects per country and address different cultures.

]]> By: Goose http://gigaom.com/2012/07/27/the-economist-lays-it-out-europes-entrepreneurial-crisis-goes-back-decades/#comment-870474 Sun, 29 Jul 2012 19:10:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=547422#comment-870474 Who builds more efficient windmills than Vestas? How could you build 500m skyscrapers without German cement pumps? Being on Fortune 500 is like winning medals at the Olympic games, makes nationalists feel good. The Chinese have bought a number of small German companies with unique technologies. The Chinese have the money and the management skills to make them grow. Maybe these small companies do not generate fees for dealers and lawyers in Wall st. Or maybe they do not place irrelevant expensive adds in the Economist?

]]> By: Danox http://gigaom.com/2012/07/27/the-economist-lays-it-out-europes-entrepreneurial-crisis-goes-back-decades/#comment-869652 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:50:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=547422#comment-869652 What do you want? the Germans still actually build products that people want to buy, the UK financial industry these days is smoke and mirror high finance derivatives, as long as Germany’s focus is on making something other than stock shorts, derivatives and co-signing European debt, they should be ok. The Mini-Copper, Cadbury and Bentley should have remained British. Disclosure I have a Dyson.

]]> By: WINEX http://gigaom.com/2012/07/27/the-economist-lays-it-out-europes-entrepreneurial-crisis-goes-back-decades/#comment-869580 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:12:01 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=547422#comment-869580 How is government taking a more active role in promoting startups a bright spot? Despite what you may have heard elsewhere, people who created companies here “did build that”.

]]> By: Dan http://gigaom.com/2012/07/27/the-economist-lays-it-out-europes-entrepreneurial-crisis-goes-back-decades/#comment-869545 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:18:53 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=547422#comment-869545 This is excellent article, right to the point. EU lacks entrepreurship guts, creativity and money willing to invest. Europeans prefer more secure and well paid jobs. Similarity with Greece situation is astounding and results will probably be same.

That is something looming for a very long time. I as an EU citizen can see this negative outcome rolling for years. In EU when you receive a degree, you are settled for a life. Biggest possible mistake which EU will pay dearly.

]]> By: Pablo http://gigaom.com/2012/07/27/the-economist-lays-it-out-europes-entrepreneurial-crisis-goes-back-decades/#comment-869479 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:54:22 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=547422#comment-869479 Not risk takers??? Who wrote that? The true is costs of running small company are so high, that is much better to give up and earn 3 times more on typical job for midsized company. Corporations now make the same content as small companies, so guess who wins this battle?

]]> By: jac http://gigaom.com/2012/07/27/the-economist-lays-it-out-europes-entrepreneurial-crisis-goes-back-decades/#comment-869458 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:56:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=547422#comment-869458 hmmm, so why Arkansas or Wales have not produced a Fortune 500 company ?

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