[zilly]

Bulgaria has great potential for that, well-educated people, low income. Young people really want to start building something. Yet, most of them move away.

Politicians need to create a climate in which start-ups get support and funding. Most importantly: Bulgarians need to tackle corruption if they want their country to be successful in the future.

[bluetomcat]

The trouble in Bulgaria is, almost any profession outside of IT is paid laughably low. This creates an atmosphere where a lot of young people see this industry as the only viable career choice.

A commonly held belief is that IT can somehow propel the rest of the country out of poverty and corruption, but this is not realistic - the amount of people employed in that sector is still negligible compared to the rest (and it barely exists out of Sofia).

[solve]

Or to be more specific, the people see being a MANAGER in an IT company as only viable long term career choice.

A million middle managers, and a small portion of younger people doing most of the work. Business culture of slowness, rudeness, laziness and a ton of office politics to try to become the next manager. The best young people move out at an astonishingly rapid rate. Result is tons of middle managers, and left over mediocre workers.

[llcoolv]

nope. that's prague :D though it's just in that there's more companies organised like the spoiled big babies in sofia (HP, SAP, etc)... Otherwise the culture of ambitious e-illiterate youth on both places is identical - UNSS and VŠE should merge in a single uni.