2008: VCs and startups get real across Europe: [...]“Chatting to some frustrated startups in Barcelona and Berlin recently, one still got the impression that VC firms, even in some major European hubs, tend to think not in global, US or broad European terms, but in local terms. Will this startup be big in Catalonia, they might ask? Will we get traction in Greece? The VCs who seem to me to be less constrained by parochialism are in London and Scandinavia (Sweden and Finland specifically – what can I say, they just think that way). [...]“
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