Among many things Europe has that US doesn’t, one of the things that matters when it comes to building successful companies, I’d like to quote what Entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky has to say about Europe and one of his reasons to be based in Madrid with Fon.<\/p>\n
“What Europe has is the most educated people in the world”<\/span><\/p>\n However, Europe doesn’t have about 150mm average users that have no clue what to do with their money.<\/p>\n So it probably makes sense to have a startup there, but fully market it here.<\/p>\n I love the US market. 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