Thanks all for this fruitful discussion, making this a top story on hackernews. Europe is very different to the US, we wanted to create an secure environment to help geeks to start their own companies. Compared to the US, in europe investment in super early tech is very rare.

Please judge us by our output, we are committed to create with HackFwd a new way of starting tech companies in europe.

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