<story><title>European alternatives for digital products</title><url>https://european-alternatives.eu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spaniard89277</author><text>So why does Europe have such hard time popping new software ventures like the US? Is it market fragmentation? Languages? Is it capital allocation related problems?&lt;p&gt;I feel that the ability to bootstrap projects in all the large EU countries is way harder than the US, or smaller euro ones (like the Netherlands or Estonia).&lt;p&gt;In Spain for example, the cost of something similar of an LLC is way higher than in the US, not to mention that you have to pay almost 400€&amp;#x2F;month (at minimum) just for owning the company as Social Security fee, even if I&amp;#x27;m also working for someone else paying my social security through my salary.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a huge burden if you&amp;#x27;re in my situation, which is having an average salary, not a lot of savings and you don&amp;#x27;t have a family that bails you out.&lt;p&gt;Also, this listing lacks a few more that I listed here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;iagovar.com&amp;#x2F;mapas&amp;#x2F;european-web-hosting-alternatives&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;iagovar.com&amp;#x2F;mapas&amp;#x2F;european-web-hosting-alternatives&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>macco</author><text>I think the biggest problem is the small home market &amp;#x2F; fragmented market.&lt;p&gt;While the EU has a very well integrated market for industry goods, for services (where I would include software) the market is less than perfect.&lt;p&gt;The language barrier is the biggest strangle for EU software entrepreneurship &amp;#x2F; platform business in my opinion.&lt;p&gt;The second-biggest obstacle imho is funding. If you want to grow really fast, it is hard to get enough money.&lt;p&gt;Third, I would rank ecosystem in general, besides money.&lt;p&gt;I think over regulation is not as bad as it is often said. All developed countries have regulations in place, some more some less.</text></comment>
<story><title>European alternatives for digital products</title><url>https://european-alternatives.eu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>spaniard89277</author><text>So why does Europe have such hard time popping new software ventures like the US? Is it market fragmentation? Languages? Is it capital allocation related problems?&lt;p&gt;I feel that the ability to bootstrap projects in all the large EU countries is way harder than the US, or smaller euro ones (like the Netherlands or Estonia).&lt;p&gt;In Spain for example, the cost of something similar of an LLC is way higher than in the US, not to mention that you have to pay almost 400€&amp;#x2F;month (at minimum) just for owning the company as Social Security fee, even if I&amp;#x27;m also working for someone else paying my social security through my salary.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a huge burden if you&amp;#x27;re in my situation, which is having an average salary, not a lot of savings and you don&amp;#x27;t have a family that bails you out.&lt;p&gt;Also, this listing lacks a few more that I listed here: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;iagovar.com&amp;#x2F;mapas&amp;#x2F;european-web-hosting-alternatives&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;iagovar.com&amp;#x2F;mapas&amp;#x2F;european-web-hosting-alternatives&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>s_dev</author><text>&amp;gt;So why does Europe have such hard time popping new software ventures like the US?&lt;p&gt;The US has a very mature and developed tech VC scene. Where&amp;#x27;s Europes isn&amp;#x27;t as mature. Also clustering is a thing -- why didn&amp;#x27;t Silicon Valley happen in New York either -- many of the conditions were there just like California but it didn&amp;#x27;t materialize and Europe was simply a mess in the aftermath of WWII there weren&amp;#x27;t going to be many tech revolutions taking place there.&lt;p&gt;In fact ironically enough there was such a congregation of talent in Berlin in the 1930s that some have predicted a second &amp;quot;Renaissance&amp;quot; was inevitable were it not for WWII.</text></comment>