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by nemesisj 5111 days ago
Can anyone name a successful startup not also located within the valley, NYC, or Boston that started from one of these coworking or incubator spaces?

Not being snarky, but it may come across that way. Just genuinely curious.

3 comments

I'm sure there's lots, but it also depends on your definition of success. Here in Chicago we've got groupon, threadless, braintree, thinkorswim, 37 signals, orbitz, and then, of course, a number of places which have cashed out to acquisitions (like feedburner).
Wooga, Soundcloud, Spreadshirt and maybe Amen come to mind (all Berlin based). Not to name the hugely successful Samwer clones like Zalando (biggest online shoe e-commerce business in Europe, Zappos clone).
Skype was started in Europe