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by ivanhoe 4024 days ago
This link from the article comments is also worth reading to get a full picture, which seems to be not all that great: http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/17/meet-doteebubble-the-myster...
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"In many cases, the companies that received government money were being run by people with no experience in the field. We wrote about an incubator for gaming startups, where none of the people running the incubator had ever worked in the gaming industry! Then there was the incubator that received nearly 700,000 euros from the government to set up in a small town of 20,000 people to promote creative arts startups, which as far as we can tell was just a few women making dresses and jewelry."