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by neximo64 950 days ago
European VCs want the cash return too early in the product cycle. I.e they are too risk averse.
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this is the true answer. everyone wants to have their cake and eat it too. working in norway it is almost impossible to convince a norwegian to work a startup because they simply have ingrained in them that they will get a job and start a family and go to cabin to go skiing and nothing inside of them says "if i work hard good things will happen." It is simply that they exist. Sure it is possible to find people who do work hard and pursue interesting careers. But there is not the hunger or the drive that you find in other places like silly valley, shenzen, taipei, etc.
start a family and go to cabin to go skiing and nothing inside of them says "if i work hard good things will happen."

I'd argue that if you have a family, a house, a cabin and time to go skiing then good things have already happened.