I don&#x27;t know what this idea of that you have to compete fairly with Silicon Valley comes from. The US and SV success comes from looking out for their own interests and doing what they are good at. That includes cultural influence, agressive business practices, trade agreements etc.<p>There are many examples of startup success in the Nordic countries and we have relativly good conditions for starting companies. Usually ending up in the top ten in business and lifestyle indexes. The things is, you can always sit and wait for things to be to your liking or you can do like SV and look out for your interest and do what you&#x27;re good at.<p>While outliers, Elon Musk didn&#x27;t sit around complaining about the state of the US car industry and Steve Jobs didn&#x27;t do the same about US telecom companies. Well, they probably did, but more importantly did also did something. Something that wasn&#x27;t what whatever Europe and Asia was doing.