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> how can we create our own silicon valley here?

You do it with laws that make it easy to start a company and that make it cost-effective to invest money in a local startup. Tax reductions are one way. Simple processes are another. Labor laws that distinguish between startups and established companies are yet another.

Here in Brazil we have labor laws that more or less make it prohibitively expensive you from legally starting a tech company, bureaucracy that's absolutely maddening, and an equally insane tax code.

Couldn't agree more, +1.

Eventually some would move back, after having made their money in the US, and gained a lot of experience and knowledge in the process.

Stopping people from moving isn't the solution to fostering innovation.

I think it's mostly because of opportunities. You can stay in Holland and only have a couple of angels and investors to pitch to, or move to the US and have a whole lot more.