there is no european startup scene* - if you are mark zuckerberg and building something that you intend to scale to every single person on earth, every single person you meet will look at you like you have two heads or something.<p>europeans write essays like tihs - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signalvnoise.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;3972-reconsider" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;signalvnoise.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;3972-reconsider</a><p>that is literally a european essay urging you to reconsider.<p>* obviously they use the word, they just mean something different by it.  i&#x27;m cmparing it with s.v.