Ask HN: Is Berlin (or Germany) a good place to start a startup in Europe?
Usually, I&#x27;d have said yes.<p>The local startup community is great. There&#x27;s certainly not as much venture capital available as in Silicon Valley but first not every startup needs extensive funding and secondly the availability of VC has been improving in recent years, too.<p>There&#x27;s more red tape involved in setting up a company than there is in other countries but you only have to go through that once.<p>However, GDPR currently creates a lot of uncertainty. Unfortunately, we&#x27;ll have to wait how that works out in the end. Maybe, everyone involved will act reasonably and it&#x27;ll prove to have been a storm in a teacup but it&#x27;s really too soon to tell.<p>So, on that grounds I can&#x27;t really recommend Europe and Germany in particular right now.