Ask HN: European start-ups or How to get started
My question is this: How can someone in a small European country get some help/assistance/founding in starting a new company or product?
My situation is this: I live in a small European country where "web applications" (and websites for that matter) are quite a new thing. The market is open for anybody to do just about anything. With a good sales team you can build a company around something that has been done before successfully elsewhere (for example, an invoicing application, a simple project management tool, etc). You may not be as profitable or high-profile as the other guys, but at least you have something concrete, a solid plan. These things can be trivial to build, especially since there are tons of examples out there on how to do it well (freshbooks, basecamp to name a few).
But what about something else? What happens in cases where you want to build the next facebook or reddit (just saying), ie. things that take time to be profitable and where there are no clear revenue channels. What do you do when your day job takes up all your time and your bank account is near-empty? I do have a couple of side projects going on but they can only be just that - I don't expect them to turn a profit.