> Or do we look at Ireland and Dublin ? Â The gov. (if i understand it
> correctly) effectively makes it tax free for 7 years to attract new
> business (or did).
I don't know how successful govt prodding can be here. I know back
when the first tranche of Telstra shares were sold, Tasmania ended up
What would also be interesting to look at is what israel has done in
recent years. Why ? they are a small and isolated (from their
neighbours anyway) country that sell high tech research into the US
and europe.
So the question is - what are they doing that we are not (as a
culture / country ?).
That's a brilliant article.
Most interesting point for me was...
"What you really want is a pool of local angel investors—people investing
money they made from their own startups. But unfortunately you run into a
chicken and egg problem here. If your city isn't already a startup hub,
there won't b
