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Paul Sawers takes a look at the Scottish start-up scene over on The Next Web. SkyScanner, Tweetsport, Matiogi, Bloop Said.fm, Kiltr, Dizeo, are all featured (with  mentions and nods for others), and of course Edinburgh University’s School of Infomatics looms over the whole country.
Indeed, the engineers and the engineering culture of the Valley have always had a certain distaste for advertising, and for advertising salesmen (the kind of people who usually end up running media companies)—too messy, too intrusive, and, worst of all, too dumb… Media companies, on the other hand, are different, and the VCs know it. Get typecast as a media company—a mere seller of advertising—and you get a media company valuation. Which makes it a great irony that advertising is the only way the Silicon Valley platform companies have ended up making their money. Chip Bayers at AdWeek shows the
Europe doesn’t do tech and venture capital companies? That seems to be the message from Silicon Valley resident Loic Le Meur. Mike Butcher loads up the Lee-Enfield to return fire: There has been an explosion in accelerators, co-working spaces, and increasing numbers of ventures investors looking at 500 Startups and similar investment models and doubling down on many different investments. None of these people – and I have observed it close hand – are ever out to lunch for hours on end. Across Europe, entrepreneurs are burning the night oil to create startups which DO go global from day one,
