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    Startup che raggiungono lo status di unicorno per paese europeo

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    1. Alarmed_Crazy_6620 on

      Tallest of all the shorties? Cultural similarity to Americans? No respect for closing down the country on a Sunday?

      Difficult to say. But can always argue about it

    3. ConejoSarten on

      I would bet my left nut that there is __a lot__ of nuance to this graph

    4. Status-Screen-2484 on

      And what’s the total number of startups in each country?

    5. LeroyoJenkins on

      Whenever the World Competitiveness Ranking or Global Innovation Index (or others) get posted here, usually with Switzerland at the top, it is a landslide of angry comments that Switzerland shouldn’t be there because chocolate, CERN or whatever. But this is a good example of why it is at the top.

      Britain has 8X our population, and nowhere close to 8X our number of unicorns, we have roughly 30% more unicorns per capita than the UK.

      With the other countries the difference is even sharper: twice as many as the Netherlands, 4X as many as Germany and 5X as many as France (numbers are approximate, so don’t bother replying with “axcxtchually it is 4.76X”).

      Then we get comments like “never heard of anything from Switzerland” or so. Which is to a certain point fair: most of the startups are not consumer services or products (which makes sense, since we have a tiny internal market), instead being B2B high-tech and bio-tech, which most people never hear about.

      It is an example of what the EU should be doing: focusing on what we’re good at, not on creating local government-funded copycats of American startups.

    6. FudgeAtron on

      Just so people understand how far behind the EU is

      [Here](https://www.techaviv.com/unicorns) is a list of current Israeli Unicorn startups. By my count it’s nearly 90 companies and doesn’t include previous companies that were bought up.

      That means right now there are more Israeli unicorn startups than Germany had produced total since 2000.

      There’s clearly something wrong with European economies, if Israel can produce such a larger amount of strong startups, while being far more disadvantaged.

    8. Moosplauze on

      That’s neat, my startups can barely reach rainbow or butterfly status.

    9. AJRimmerSwimmer on

      Makes sense that a country focused on the financial sector would have companies with the most made up fantasy valuations.

    12. Scotandia21 on

      Glad it explains what Unicorn status means because I had no idea

    13. Creativezx on

      Kinda wish there was a larger list to compare more countries.

    14. Arthedains on

      The tax havens Britain, the Netherlands and Switzerland are over represented. One of many reasons for this is that a lot of money is flowing into tax havens and new companies can more easily acquire high amount of loans necessary for early investments. Another reason is specification that will make IT centers much more efficient and experienced than newcomers.

    16. MrCaptainMorgan on

      Switzland having approx. 50% of Germany with just 10% of the population – and not having the native English advantage like Britain – is insane.

    18. Clanky72 on

      What does the 0-200 scale mean? Days? Sacrificed new borns?

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