Is There an Advantage to European Start Ups?

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European start ups, at least when they are younger, tend to be more thrifty. And salaries is the most important cost for a start up. The other thing is america's ecosystem used to be very concentrated in silkan valley. That's changing. There's new york, there's austin, there's miami but that's a relatively new development.

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