[bcurdy]

I guess the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence... Sure, people in Silicon Valley usually have a great attitude towards the web and entrepreneurs but it's also cut-throat competition out there. Don't believe that being based in the valley alone will make your life much easier. If you already have a complete team, a minimum viable product and some traction, then you'll be able to meet there people who know how to build up your audience and maybe get funding. There's definitely more experienced people there per square meter than anywhere else. But it's also a very expensive place in terms of housing/office space and talents.

Europe might not be as web-friendly but there has never been a better time for startups there. Think Seedcamp in the UK, startup bootcamp in Danemark, Hackfwd in Germany and many, many more.. There are loads of people in Europe taking startups very seriously.

At the end of the day, users don't care if you're based in Singapore, London or San Francisco. Also, you should be able to get an iPad not too long after anybody else in the US :)

[pfmendez]

While I develop my first prototype in Mallorca I´m observing what's happening in the continent and speculate about the emergence of a fuzzy system of VCs, talented geeks, developers and researchers, with the same virtues of Silicon Valley. I dare say that the event here in Europe will be a Silicon Landscape instead of a Valley. We have the funding and the technical systems. The economic one will develop slowly. I see the main constraints within the policy-political system, which is based on command-and-control and top-down hierarchies, making it very difficult to emerge from the bottom.

[evilhackerdude]

Especially with CDNs and distributed infrastructure providers even latencies are becoming less of a problem. Technological conditions can only improve in the long term.