[klaaz0r]

Raising capital is getting easier but still nothing compared to the US. If we want change we need more capital to make competing software. If my competitor from SV has 10M in the bank and I can only raise 500k in Europe how do I compete? The end users doesn't care that much.

[zhdc1]

This apparently isn't as much of an issue anymore, although there are supposedly other constraints on scaling.