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UK tech start-ups 'suck', Silicon investor says

thebusiness.co.uk

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Here's the actual conversation, as close to verbatim as I can remember:

  Q: What can we do to make Britain better for startups?

  A: Well, when you're doing badly at something, the first
     step is to admit it-- to say, Ok, we suck, now what
     do we have to do to get better?

I certainly never said British startups suck. If I'd been getting specific, I might have said British investors did, but I didn't even say that.

This whole article reads like what I said run through a blender.

By the way, Mazen Araabi has some good data on startups outside the U.S.:

"Only one of these companies [consumer Internet startups founded since 2001 that have gone on to be acquired for over $100 million], YouTube, was founded in Silicon Valley. London is home to both Skype (which was also partially founded in Talin) and Last.fm, MySpace was founded in LA, ClubPenguin in Canada, and PhotoBucket in Denver."

http://www.mazenblog.com/2007/11/consumer-web-is-global.html

> This whole article reads like what I said run through a blender.

"UK Business Journalism 'Sucks', says prominent Silicon-based life-form"...

it gets worse: http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-y-combinators-graham-...

Now apparently UK entrepreneurs suck.

Who shortens Silicon Valley to "Silicon" instead of "Valley"?

Why are there question marks randomly placed throughout this article?

Because the server is returning charset=ISO-8859-1 but the body contains microsoft charset chars. The question marks should be hyphens.

whats wrong with parkatmyhouse.com?

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