Thanks for the link. Good idea to group the startups by area, this solves the marker overlapping problem. Does it only display the number of startups or can you also list startup details?

What country is that? It's great to know it's useful, there are still a lot of investment funds to be added, so it might be even better than you think. ;) Best of luck with "this whole startup thing" if you decide to try it! :)

You're right, Spotify's location was Stockholm, but the map automatically displayed it in Stockholm county. Thanks for noticing this, I'll correct the error.

Yes, it's a problem with the markers overlapping, I'm still looking for a solution to it.

See http://www.appelsiini.net/2008/11/introduction-to-marker-clu...

Interesting post, thanks for the link.

Oh. I thought it meant something like Germany is a great place to get venture capital but not such a great place to start a startup.

:)) Oh no, it's not that smart! :P

Thanks. I know, but the map is not just about the countries using Euro, it's about all countries within Europe's geographical boundaries.

Oh yes, there are tons, but I thought the YC community is a good place to collect more startup info :)

Thanks, I've taken care of this bug.

True, I used the term loosely, perhaps I should have said "tech companies founded by Europeans"

cool idea, but I can think of plenty of startups not listed

I know, you're right, but I thought I'd start with the ones I knew about and then let founders add their own startups to the list.

As some of you have already said it, some cities have a better ecosystem, others have a low cost of living but no ecosystem and crazy bureaucracy, others have low taxes.

The solution is an offshore: you start your company in a low-taxes European country (Cyprus, Bulgaria) or a tax haven, you live close to an ecosystem (near London, for instance) and you hire developers from Eastern Europe (low wages, highly skilled).

There are places for everything:

Åland Islands (Fi) - no VAT

Jersey (UK) - no VAT on goods sold, as long as items cost less than £18 and are posted individually, no import taxes to mainland UK

Estonia - no corporate profit tax (flat 21% tax on dividends)

I think it all comes down to being useful.

- Join conversations about movies (on blogs, forums, review sites, social networks), but contribute to those conversations, don't just advertise your site. It won't help you, it will just annoy everyone.

- Start a contest and give away small prizes for the best weekly/daily review or movie list.

- Work on your SEO: friendly urls, movie categories, better descriptions, titles etc. It won't get you too far, but it might help a little.

- Make a monthly/weekly list of recommended blog posts on movies, they will be notified you linked to them.

- Search on twitter for people asking for movie recommendations and interact with them.